Quote of the week #5 - Waxman’s stunningly stupid statement

The other day at Hall Of Record, the subject was about Congressman Waxman [CA] who wanted to tax imports for there carbon impact... a really stupid idea unless his goal was to antagonize the rest of the world and build up under-the-table campaign funds for Pres. Obama.

Now Mr. Waxman outdoes himself as cited in Watt's Up With That:

Quote of the week #5 - Waxman’s stunningly stupid statement 26 04 2009

Image from WUWT reader “Boudu”

This QOTW is from Congressman Henry Waxman, who is pushing (or maybe bribing) the carbon cap and trade bill through congress. The statement made by Waxman can be corrected by a third grader; it is that bad.

From an interview on NPR as relayed by Tavis Smiley:

“We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap..”

That’s probably the scariest statement on “science” ever uttered by a Congressman.

Let me go on record by saying Waxman is stunningly and stupidly misinformed and intellectually inadequate for the tasks at hand that bears his name: The Waxman-Markey bill

This is what Waxman works on in Congress:

Committee on Energy and Commerce (Chairman)

* Subcommittee on Health
* Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality
* Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

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