Republican???...thought they were the conscious ones!...the boy should know better.
If he isn't competent enough to vet the carbon scam then he doesn't belong in government...Period.

"Despite the group’s impeccable Republican credentials"
Statist irrational propagandists.

Baker is officially a senile old fart.

No one with any ability to think rationally should listen to a word the old fart says. Unfortunately, no one in the entire US con-gress has that ability.

Baker said:
“the risk is sufficiently strong that we need an insurance policy and this is a damn good insurance policy.”

The technical term for this is The precautionary principle.
It requires everyone to take out insurance against any possibility, however remote. Any fanatic can state some stupid idea as dangerous, so we all have to have insurance by means of a a tax to raise money to prevent it.
The support for this utterly fallacious nonsense comes from the usual mush-heads but there are big opportunities for looters.

A threat that does not exist requires no action to stop it.

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Even believers are harassed and vilified if they point out some flaw in the gravy train:

Judith Curry (63), former professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), believes that there is some man-made global warming, but in her view the role of nature is dominant. A few weeks ago she resigned, partly because there is too much ‘insanity’ and ‘alarmism’ in climate science.

A study by Roger Pielke Jr. (48), professor at the University of Colorado (USA), showed that the number of storms and hurricanes has not increased. Subsequently, Pielke – who believes that humans contribute to global warming – was so vilified that he has chosen a different field of research.

http://notrickszone.com/2017/02/08/du...