Bold GOP Leadership! WV Rep Adds Amendment Forbidding DOE, Army Corps From Dealing With Climate

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Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., is on a roll. After successfully passing a budget amendment back in May that basically forbids the Pentagon from acknowledging climate science — despite the fact that the Department of Defense considers doing so to be vital to national security — his newest effort prohibits both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from spending “to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.”

“Spending precious resources to pursue a dubious climate change agenda compromises our clean-energy research and America’s infrastructure,” McKinley said on the House floor, according to the WV Gazette. “Congress should not be spending money pursuing ideologically driven experiments.”

Neither amendment is likely to get past the Democrat-controlled Senate, of course, but they remain nonetheless a fascinating exercise in anti-science sentiment among House Republicans (only five Democrats supported the most recent amendment). McKinley’s amendment is part of the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, which passed Thursday night and contains a whole bunch of silly, anti-environmental measures, which include slashing the Energy Department’s budget for renewable energy programs by $100 million.

The WV Gazette has more on the particular absurdity of McKinley’s amendment, which basically requires the government to ignore the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists:

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http://www.salon.com/2014/07/14/house_bans_the_department_of_energy_from_acknowledging_climate_change/

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1. Next on his agenda... repealing the Law of Gravity.

Because its all sciencey and stuff. And Congress never passed that law to begin with. Its only a Theory... blah, blah, blah. Farging idiots.