John Bryson, nominated by President Barack Obama today to head the Department of Commerce, once said it was “incredibly important” that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to become a global leader in combating man-made global warming.
“I regard it as incredibly important that the United States comes forth in this year with federal climate change legislation as a foundation for moving ahead,” Bryson told the U.N. International Energy Conference in late August 2009. “I think we in the U.S. have an obligation to assist in significant ways in providing leadership in this community of nations that you represent and addressing energy and climate change.”
And it gets better…
Bryson, a co-founder of the liberal environmentalist group Natural Resources Defense Council, was most recently a member of the United Nations’ Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, a panel of scientific and industry experts tasked with providing advice on combating global warming.
2012 can’t get here fast enough.
How does one “combat” something that does not exist?
Spend vast sums of money to fund various ‘research projects’ and blue ribbon committees to design a regulatory regiment. Then spend even more money on the EPA to enforce the nonsense. And in the end, ban incandescent light bulbs.
He says we need to be a Global Leader? Hint: The world is laughing at us. We sit on enormous amounts of energy and beg others for it.
Exactly. We can’t drill for oil. We can’t use coal. It is completely stupid that we aren’t using our own resources.
Another Obama green communist. Oh goody!
This guy will get along great with Obama, Geithner, Holdren and the rest of the crew in Washington.