{"id":15927,"date":"2012-09-24T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15927"},"modified":"2012-09-24T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T17:28:51","slug":"elizabeth-warren-and-the-truth-about-environmental-hoaxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15927\/elizabeth-warren-and-the-truth-about-environmental-hoaxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren and the Truth about Environmental Hoaxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, in her first debate with U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren tried to nationalize their contest<\/a> in terms designed to solidify her support from Bay State environmentalists:<\/p>\n

\u201cSenator Brown has been going around the country, talking to people, saying, you\u2019ve got to contribute to his campaign because it may be for the control of the Senate.\u00a0 And he\u2019s right.\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 What that would mean is if the Republicans take over control of the Senate, Jim Inhofe would become the person who would be in charge of the committee that oversees the Environmental Protection Agency.\u00a0 He\u2019s a man that has called global warming \u2018a hoax.\u2019\u00a0 In fact, that\u2019s the title of his book.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be fair to Senator Inhofe, who, as the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is in line to lead the panel if Republicans become the majority, the full title of his book is The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hoax Inhofe describes is the use of Climategate-manipulated science<\/a> to legitimize massive increases in taxes and regulation.<\/p>\n

In its war on coal, the EPA has been at the forefront of the environmentalists\u2019 push to tax and regulate an entire industry out of existence; most specifically by requiring coal operators to adopt expensive and experimental manufacturing techniques that are already making it necessary to lay off workers<\/a> and close down plants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By parsing Inhofe\u2019s insight about how global warming alarmists politicize science to justify liberal policies<\/a>, Warren was trying to substitute Inhofe\u2019s complete rejection of global warming for Brown\u2019s position on the issue.\u00a0 In fact, Brown thinks global warming\/climate change\/something is happening.\u00a0 But like Inhofe, he thinks that getting the job market growing again trumps spending billions of dollars on policies built in part on scientific fraud.<\/p>\n

Brown shouldn\u2019t shy away from this issue so long as he frames it correctly.\u00a0 The environmental activists that Warren was playing to won\u2019t be voting for him anyway.\u00a0 But the independents that put Brown in office two years ago know that job-killing taxes and regulations don\u2019t make sense; especially in an era of chronic unemployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, in her first debate with U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren tried to nationalize their contest in terms designed to solidify her support from Bay State environmentalists: \u201cSenator Brown has been going around the country, talking to people, saying, you\u2019ve got to contribute to his campaign because it may be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,1193,622,2026,2975,196,608,331,159,725,178],"class_list":["post-15927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-climategate","tag-election","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-environment","tag-epa","tag-james-inhofe","tag-massachusetts","tag-scott-brown","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15927"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15936,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15927\/revisions\/15936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}