Senate Environment and Public Works

Joel Connelly of seattlepi.com has a lengthy and detailed post on Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire's testimony at the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, with Gregoire in her traditional form as she extols the jobs benefits of green energy. Her prepared remarks for the testimomy today have Washington as the fifth largest state for wind power.

Compare and contrast:

1) In D.C. today, Sen. Jim Inhofe and others of like mind bring up extraordinarily misleading information about global warming, such as repeating Pat Michaels’ shibboleth-cum-hoax that if we did everything promised under the Kyoto Protocol (which, remember, only covered the years from 1990 to 2012**, and wasn’t even reached, much less ratified, until 1997) it would only result in lowering atmospheric temperatures by 7/100ths of a degree Centigrade. (Reason it’s a hoax: Everyone knows that we have to keep cutting greenhouse gas emissions far past 2010 if we are to avert a climate calamity.)*