As the decidedly determined but utterly dishonest Democrats in the House of Representatives work feverishly today to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act, better known as the Waxman-Markey bill — which, if it makes it through the Senate and is signed by Obama, will be the largest tax increase ever . . . as in EVER! — what these busy-beaver legislators won’t tell the American public is that their precious, so-called consensus on the science of Global Warming, or as they like to refer to it now, Climate Change, is falling apart faster than Humpty Dumpty hitting the ground at Mach 2! From Kim Strassel in today’s Wall Street Journal:

Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.

Hmmmm, beat down informed dissent long enough and someone gets a bit irritated, irritated enough to actually do something about it — like come out and tell the world that the religion of anthropogenic climate change makes about as much sense as Scientology. Channel your inner “thetan” and save the planet? Dude! More from Strassel:

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak “frankly” of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming “the worst scientific scandal in history.” Norway’s Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the “new religion.” A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton’s Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists’ open letter.)

The collapse of the “consensus” has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

Regardless of all this, the Dems are hell-bent on passing this legislation. Hugh Hewitt writes today:

The Pelosi Democrats will try and push through the massive tax hike that is disguised as “cap and trade” today, and the 1200 plus page bill is constantly changing and of course has not been read much less understood by the Democrats voting for it. If this bill or anything remotely like it becomes law, the American economy will be pushed into a deep recession that will make the past six months look like the good old days.

Moderates and conservatives are wrong to expect that the Senate will simply kill the bill, though all efforts will have to be switched immediately to the upper chamber if the Pelosi/Waxman/Markey radicals bribe enough Dems with special provisions to pass it today. The so-called Blue Dog Democrats are proving to be worthless as a check on the hard left of their party, and only a huge course correction in November 2010 will keep the country safe from the radicals currently running the Democratic caucus in the House. No one who votes for this bill can claim to be a “moderate Democrat.“

Michelle Malkin’s syndicated column today exposes the Obama administration’s “willful and reckless disregard for data that undermine the illusion of [Climate Change] “consensus.”

The Obama administration doesn’t want to hear inconvenient truths about global warming. And they don’t want you to hear them, either. As Democrats rush on Friday to pass a $4 trillion-dollar, thousand-page “cap and trade” bill that no one has read, environmental bureaucrats are stifling voices that threaten their political agenda.

So, let’s see. We are in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression with really no end in sight at the moment, 800-billion in stimulus notwithstanding. The rest of the Western world is coming to its senses and moving to the right politically. Well-respected scientists are jumping off the Global Warming locomotive as it races toward the cliff of financial disaster and what does our Democratic-controlled Congress do? Double down, that’s what. They want our money folks, all of it! How else can they possibly hope to pay for the next exciting chapter of this Summer of Obamination — single-payer, government-controlled health care?

After nationalizing the banks and then two of the Big-3 auto makers, now they want control of the energy companies and then the health care industry. Not much left after that. Kinda makes ol’ Benito Mussolini look like a piker, don’t it? Better hope the Blue Dog Dems have some balls, ’cause otherwise we’re all screwed! Reading Hewitt — we’re screwed!

[Update -- Okie Congresswoman issues her statement] Yipes! The house.gov server is down!!! (Fri. 6/26, 12:30 EST)

Fallin Statement on Proposed “Cap and Trade” Energy Legislation

WASHINGTON — Congresswoman Mary Fallin (OK-05) issued the following statement today regarding her opposition to “cap and trade” enery legislation:

“The so-called ‘cap and trade’ bill amounts to nothing more than a gigantic tax on energy consumption, to the tune of over 600 billion dollars. The economic consequences of this enormous new tax could be catastrophic. Entire industries – including manufacturing, energy and agriculture—will suffer. Families will face a sharp spike in energy costs. Jobs will be lost. The National Association of Manufacturers has estimated this one piece of legislation could destroy over one million jobs in the coming years. All of this comes at the worst time: in the middle of a recession, when our national unemployment rate is already well over 9%

“Moreover, this bill is particularly unfair to Oklahoma. Our state is a large producer of both oil and natural gas, and the restrictions this legislation places on the production and exploration of these resources will devastate our energy producers. That will not only destroy oil and gas related jobs, it will also lead to a reduction in tax revenue, which in turn will affect our ability to maintain and repair roads, bridges, schools and other public works and services.

“Worst of all, this poorly conceived legislation is entirely unnecessary. There are better, cheaper ways to reduce our addiction to foreign oil and to protect and preserve our environment. The United States has an abundance of energy resources. We have a large amount of oil and clean burning natural gas. We have enormous potential to expand our production of wind, solar, and nuclear power as well as biodiesel fuels. Rather than stifle production of the resources with a massive tax increase, we need to encourage the environmentally responsible development of all types of American energy. Doing so will create jobs, boost tax revenue, provide for our energy needs in the near term and ultimately lead to exciting breakthroughs in energy technology that will one day provide us with cheaper, cleaner sources of energy.”

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