Thomas Jefferson noted (I think) that the one thing missing from the Constitution (as then proposed) was a clause prohibiting votes on bills until they had been under consideration for a year. Plenty of time to the emotion of an idea to die down and for legislators to become educated Might be a terrific idea for an Article V convention.

This is what a Senator should be doing.

When you get to be a Senator, the country has a right to expect you to research things, as he has done.

I always love it when a member of Congress does their homework and then educates the rest of the chamber. Seriously. I think it would be a good idea for all bills to include an explanation session (pun intended) just like this when discussing ANY bill. Maybe then we'd get fewer knee-jerk bills based on emotional reaction and more actual THINKING.

I guess we can hope.

Global Warming is a scam. We know it, and so do those who promote it. Glad to see Sessions using actual facts, something in short supplly in congress of late.

Just this weekend on Fox news was the man that started the TV weather channel. He has been in the weather forecasting business for 30 years. He says that global warming/cooling/climate change is a scam and gave examples of false information being used to scare people. One current one was that the recent storm that hit the northeast was being talked about as the the largest on record for that area. He then showed that was untrue by giving historic data. He also committed on Gore's 90 trillion dollar plan to rebuild the worlds cities to eliminate cars. I believe the word asinine was used.

All prediction models are political, and therefore worthless.
Prediction of future stability is no more helpful than prediction of warming. Only the correlations in the paleo-records are worth studying.

Just ran into an emailed editorial cartoon that pretty well sums up what I've been saying about climate scam all along.

http://patriotupdate.com/cartoons/follow...

this scam has millions fooled, and it's not fading
as fast as it should! -- j

The first big thing is: At least people are talking about it. (It was actually suggested in some countries that against-global-warming statements be made illegal and felonious.) We have come to a point were even scientists who disagree are only marginalized, instead of being expelled outright when they make AGW comments. It seems that people have forgotten that Science consists of disagreement, especially disagreement with 'what is accepted'.

Second, there are a plethora of professional climatologists who are AGW, and many more who are 'Lukewarmers' (think that there is a small amount of man-made GW but that it is doing more good than harm). If you would like to browse, please go to wattsupwiththat.com.

My personal position is that the temperature fluctuations that we are experiencing are part of the normal climate process and that our increased CO2 has virtually no effect. I am definitely not a Warmist; I am not an Icer - but I am keeping an eye on that possibility.

Jan

I would really like to hear from one politician that all of the global warming is B/S. they should say that the advocates are plain and simply lying. i do not expect that to happen even if we have a summer where the temperature stays at 62 on average.

Although, I didn't see Sessions mention that his biggest donor is Southern Co. (one of the largest
coal-burning utilities in the US).

#2 is Drummond... which is pretty slimey... 100% of their employees are former government employees, so half of the 'do what we want' thing is a guaranteed job if they lose their seat...

#6 is Vulcan Materials...

I'm not a global warming nut, but I've worked in the power industry, and its not a foreign concept to me. We can do a lot of things in a cleaner way, and often cheaper, we just let politics get in the way. Ever seen a 'coal ash pond'? Coal is only cheap because we don't make the utility deal with the byproducts and waste, they just build a pond and throw the crap in there, presumably in perpetuity, because they close a plant and leave it behind for the residents & taxpayers to deal with - billions to pump it out into trains and haul it away.

We have nuclear brain-damage here... we've never had a serious accident, but we've had plenty of problems with other technologies... but we shut all our nukes down for the most part. None were even close to the same poor designs of Chernobyl o or Fukashima. France is almost 100% nuclear, never had a problem. They even recycle their waste into more fuel for the reactor.

I've had solar on my house for a year, went for $400 a month in local utility cost to around $35 (all taxes) and a variable $70-$120 solar lease payment.

We have lots of hydro power we don't use out of fear that we'll kill the fish, so instead we buy hydro power from Canada (which has either figured out a way to not kill fish, or they kill the fish and we don't see it).

We can do things another way, in many cases we choose not to.

H Ross Perot, Part 2

What a bunch of nonsense. He probably has armchair science to show me Taco Bell isn't bad for me, loving gods are with my grandparents watching over me, and everything else in life I wish were true. I can't imagine being an objectivist with some line this representing me.