US Congress told global warming is a myth

US Congress told global warming is a myth

Big News Network.com
Thursday 26th March, 2009
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The United States Congress has been told to ignore President Barack Obama's carbon emission plan.

The Energy and Environment Subcommittee has heard from a British aristocrat, Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, that climate change does not exist.

Monckton, who has long believed climate change is myth, is a member of a movement that has argued there is no statistically significant global warming.

Saying green jobs are purely a euphemism for mass unemployment, he told Congress members that adaptation to climate change is unnecessary.

Another speaker, Pastor Calvin Beisner, who speaks for a group which consists of clergy and religious leaders, questioned proposed efforts to combat climate change on a biblical basis.

He said he was convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming would be destructive.

Pastor Beisner told members that the biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of God's creation: “robust, resilient, and self-regulating.”

The House is discussing ways to address Mr Obama's cap-and-trade proposal in his US$3.6 trillion budget plan, which was presented to Congress in February.

Mr Obama's proposal would limit emissions of greenhouse gases for manufacturers, and permit companies buy pollution credits from other firms.