'Where's The Proof?': Jamie Raskin, Ron Johnson Spar Over Climate Change Mitigation Soutions

At a Senate Budget Committee hearing last week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sparred over climate change mitigation solutions.
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[@TsavosAlliance]

I'm more worried about Communism in America than Climate Change.

[@josefeibl8230]

Stop voting blue.

[@lm5085]

They are 1 and the same group.

agenda 2030

[@jamesgarrett2129]

Cim with you. However, I'm more concerned the commies in the White House than anything else.

[@usleadershipareliars]

What if I told you climate change is about communism

[@gordondwyer3641]

It's all a big con.

[@theend9494]

no use listening to 2 lawyers having a go at each other bring in the scientists,

[@giddy9052]

Pretty much everyone on the media has their opinion bought and paid for by special interests (power mad billionaires and corporations). Trust your common sense. Plants ABSOLUTELY LOVE CO². Death cultists hate it. Join the dots.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Money laundering

[@claudiamontano519]

RASKIN obviously knows NOTHING about climate change except it give Dems MONEY to USE and DIVERT to THEIR BENEFIT.

[@gailrowland1672]

There is no climate emergency… It’s only about more control over us, more taxes from us & more $ laundering for them…

[@bonnieruelas8303]

I wouldn't believe anything that raskin has to say

[@justme-in2jb]

Yes, it has been proven that Raskin is a professional liar, same class as Schiff.

[@martinleuchs5403]

But you believe everything the Senator says? You don’t like complex issues ...

[@jr6200]

@@martinleuchs5403 But Johnson has integrity and Raskin will say anything that profits him or the party

[@The_Rob_D]

@@martinleuchs5403Well, Raskin said an AR15 can blow a giant hole in someone, even though a standard AR15 round is only .22” in diameter. It’s pretty clear he doesn’t have a clue.

[@grey5751]

​@@jr6200the signatures he mentions are largely non-climate scientists and many lobbyists.

[@rd2dab]

The amount of money being stolen is craaaaaaazy

[@leonardcarter2565]

I agree this is just more pork belly scams

[@jordanmiller4186]

Non-profits

[@theend9494]

In my city in Aussie , I walk along our streets and see a huge number of solar panels the roofs of houses, awesome this is an easy step for sunny climates, it also saves me a load of money on energy bills, so we have obviously taken a huge load of our power grid, but never hear a dick bird from our politician (lefties) not happy until they destroy us, its a beautiful day outside, still waiting for AOC prediction, this is year 8, she has 4 to go haha

[@bob733333]

The amount of natural unscrewed-with weather is almost nil.

[@stephaniemaloney5869]

Funny the "specialist" knows nothing

[@ronaldspins]

During the pandemic these politicians thought they were doctors and now they are climate scientists

[@theend9494]

no they are liars

[@vandall0160]

And more importantly, they are not looking for solutions, but selling fear to get as much cash for their lobbyists as possible.

[@krisnaylor9488]

The climate change grift is another giant money transfer to the rich. Taxing air oughta solve the problem.....

[@rob6850]

The "climate emergency" is their next power grab. It's in their plans.

[@Rick-ux5ku]

raskin thinks he knows everything about eveything

[@speedypete9694]

I really really reallly cannot stand raskin . How are these people in power

[@philtorres2975]

I second that , can't stand Raskin' s bovine excrement. He appears to be in a heavy fog continuously as he interrupts others to interject his crap.

[@yllitleinadable]

The reason their spending that much is so democrat donors can get rich!!

[@justme-in2jb]

I believe we still don't see the real picture, it's most of them are promoting one thing or another so the big money man stays the big money man.

[@robyoung-pl1gq]

Getting hotter every year, genius.

[@richl2501]

And Mayorkas kept the border open so he could take payments from ____? Corruption

[@jasonhutchins9239]

Theyve been saying this since the 80s

[@theend9494]

so much for the oil crisis of the 70's

[@derricklichtenwalter1389]

,yes they started this crapp in the 70s. But under so many different name's

[@debbierushing723]

They've been saying this way before the 80's. Anytime they think the people are getting ahead they come up with another crisis😤

[@Tank4Life]

Actually in the 80s there was a drought and they claimed the ocean levels were falling. Now they say the sea levels are rising and it has not. The Earth has the exact same amount of water it's always had. It never changes.

[@user-fg5rg5el7y]

Even before that

[@paulknight1075]

Jamie Raskin looked edgy & nervous when confronted with the truth.

[@sherrihimes7357]

He’s not so arrogant in the hot seat

[@setburhed4987]

He got edgy for big oil

[@jamesgarrett2129]

It's just a reaction to the truth. Kind 9f like a vampire has to a silver cross. Demoncraps react to truth in the same manner. They stay as far from truth as possible.

[@992turbos]

Why wouldn’t they bring in a climate scientist to question, instead of a politician? Hmmm. 🤔

[@jamesgarrett2129]

@992turbos politicians don't lie as much. There has been 18 climate hoaxes since 1970 but to thier credit they're getting better and better.

[@BAR-kt3lf]

When I was at school in the late 60's,, we were told we were rapidly heading for another ice age!! What happened there then?? 6 trillion dollars!! Who benefitted from that then??

[@kellyemmanuel6888]

Well not all of it has been dispersed. Actually, Jon Kerry just spoke on it at an event hosted by Time magazine. Go to a gas station, I’m sure you do. You can clearly see that that EV petrol is the cheapest. Then if you look at manufacturing jobs and talk to a 20something that likes to work, they will tell you they are making tons of money making wind turbines/batteries/solar. It’s actually enough money to have a family and support them. How do I know this?!? Well I have a 24 year old daughter. And she is married to a kid that builds wind turbines. They travel all over the US. Making a TON of money. Getting bonuses, and cashing in. They will have enough to build a sustainable home in the next 6 months. And there are 1,000’s of American’s just like them! See WE might be old and dumb. But the people that have to live here after we die, they know where their bread is buttered. It’s just like the plan that FDR rolled out after the stock market collapsed. When American for starving, and homeless. I don’t think anyone even knows how many jobs this administration has brought back to our country. Not that I care about that shit, it’s greed that got us here to begin with…but appealing to the masses is what we do.

[@1965Grit]

It actually worked, they gave mother nature the money so she turned the heat on😅😅

[@Augustus99100]

Nobody believed it so they changed course

[@andyandy4306]

We are….it’s called inflation (expansion of the universe)….dont loose sleep over it though

[@bass60guy]

I'd like to see where the $6T went and for what it was used for!!

[@kw-zs2dc]

Why isn't Jamie wearing his head dress? Doesn't he want folks to see what a goofball he really is?

[@Del-Scent]

I'm not a fan of Raskin myself. In his defense, he was going thru chemo, and his hair fell out. But yes, he's still a royal horse's ass.

[@kedro2152]

🐀 skin is a goofball with or without hair.

[@wayne6512]

Stop all funding for scientists and watch how quickly they would do a complete 180 on their predictions.

[@karenjobagy5822]

They are grant chasers,not scientists.

[@SteffiReitsch]

AAAHAHAHAHAAHAH I don't think so, pops.

[@user-xz5vg6tc3j]

We are humans ....we adapt...we will build stronger or higher...stop this climate nonsense....

[@nickzaccheo9294]

PUT HIM IN HIS PLACE....

[@davidday8352]

YA IN THE 70'S IT WAS ICEAGE (GLOBAL COOLING) NOW IT'S GLOBAL WARMING.. BS

[@andyandy4306]

Or space

[@nickzaccheo9294]

@@andyandy4306 (Peter griffin)... "Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

[@willard6652]

Them dem need to be in jail for steeling they put them in power to mess up this that why the school so mess up in this how them dem put in office dem dont care about this country if you dont vote them out this country is gond

[@lewisbarney5327]

And we are all supposed to trust the government and the un

[@Ericah81]

I agree because the government and the UN all won money and they would say anything to get the money!

[@derricklichtenwalter1389]

Never trust the Government. And we should git the HELL out of the. U N. Now

[@martinleuchs5403]

The Senator said that he is not a climate change denier! He said that humans can nothing do against it. I would exspect that he is working on measures to face the proven changes, which show increasing temperatures, melting glaciers, ...

[@Mario-ge9iv]

@@martinleuchs5403That's false. Everyone can help reduce emissions and the gov can do that by developing more clean energy. Fossil fuels won't last forever

[@davidday8352]

@@martinleuchs5403 AND YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THE ICE STUDY. IT WAS WARMER BY SERVCERAL DEGREES IN ROMAN TIMES > AND COLDER IN THE MID 1800'S THINGS GO THROUGH CYCLES

[@FreerunningGamer]

The grifters gotta go. They want your money to do stuff They want, simple as.

[@karenjobagy5822]

They don't want to earn it.

[@doug1117]

Yeah. You just described Trump 😅

[@everardobasilio7918]

Trillions and absolutely Nothing to show for it?? Reciept??

[@melindatarnow5713]

Sure there is. Chem trails and weather modification.

[@scottekoontz]

@@melindatarnow5713 HA HA HA chem trails. I guess water vapor is the chem you're talking about.

[@kellyemmanuel6888]

@@melindatarnow5713what is weather modification?

[@robyoung-pl1gq]

Getting hotter every year, genius.

[@kellyemmanuel6888]

@@Anne2u and who is doing this?

[@Bruiser48]

Truth is not determined by the number of people that believe something to be true.

[@robyoung-pl1gq]

Getting hotter every year, genius.

[@Irvingstine]

​@robyoung-pl1gq No it's not. But it's easy to say that when you ignore the years it is not hot.

[@Bruiser48]

Too bad these Climate Grifters don’t come clean and admit that they agree with 97% of those who are funding them.

[@cognitiveresonance339]

Raskin only knows what he's been told. Remarkable how many people just assume that "the science" is settled, based on nothing but rumor.

[@kellyemmanuel6888]

Can ask you something? Do you know what the science has said?

[@rathey7999]

​​@@kellyemmanuel6888some say it's man-made others say it's part of the Earth cycles that have always been. There was more co2 when dinosaurs were around, that contributed to larger plants and animals. Gardeners pump co2 into their greenhouses for larger lusher plants. Many scientists say we need more, not less but there's no money or government backing for those scientists. The government likes the power and control too much.

[@cognitiveresonance339]

@@kellyemmanuel6888 Science doesn't say anything. People say things based on their interpretation of the results of scientific testing. All scientific data is vulnerable to subjective interpretation. When people are sloppy and make a lot of assumptions, they tend to make wonderous pronouncements, and are certain to the point of arrogance. If they're aware of the limitations of the theorem, they tend to carefully equivocate, and a straight answer is difficult to draw from them. This applies to systems significantly less complex and intricate than global climate. The solemn assurances eminating from "tHe ScIeNcE!" (Aka politicians who put all their eggs in the wrong basket) are a mark of ignorance.

[@mikew8622]

Look how they get away with just making stuff up! Insane!

[@danieldelarosa2976]

To heck with the United Nations...they are awful

[@ivanmurdock7328]

They are cashing in. There is no science that provides that nonsense

[@chrisg8321]

Sealevel was "predicted" to be 5m higher in 2015... Didn't happen

[@DOWNUNDER.]

LIAR, IT ACTUALLY ROSE 7 METRES, The world has lost 33% of its above water land mass

[@Augustus99100]

Algore said they would cover the coasts in 12 years. Then he immediately bought a 9 million beach house.

[@stoicsceptic8420]

As have Obama and Gates

[@chrisg8321]

@@Augustus99100 This comes from the people claiming that the world is "boiling", when all one needs to do is pour a glass of water to disprove it

[@RJTruthBTold]

Ron Johnson has put so much into honoring his country with serving at such a high level of integrity. His family must be really proud of him.

[@jeremiahjohnson5102]

The Northwoods of Wisconsin are so supportive of Senator Johnson and we can’t stand Ratskin.

[@Selina-xs1hm]

Raskin makes my skin crawl when his lips are moving!

[@kimcissell1905]

Chemo went to his brain ??

[@RonCahoon]

Do you remember when they told us that plastic bags were going to save the forest and the planet?

[@justme-in2jb]

I also remember when we were told that bacon and eggs along with milk and butter were clogging our arteries and most shifted to some manufactured alternative, what could go wrong?

[@russrandall4834]

I remember global cooling in nat geo magazines in the 70s or 80s. Do no, not going to hang my hat on politician alarmism.

[@citizenjustice-el9pe]

Science is a study. It changes.

[@Andrew-wl2mt]

How do they sleep at night knowing they make it up .

[@megamus3]

A Democrat would argue that night is day and vice versa NO MATTER WHAT EVIDENCE YOU SHOW THEM.

[@Freedomfred939]

And men can be women

[@tomknight3243]

If there was a Climate change crisis like they try to say Florida would be under water by now because of how low Florida is

[@robertyoungs3181]

Raskin shows up to work in a tiny little car and our pours 12 other dem clowns.

[@Rustea314]

I would call it projection.

[@dianedavis2595]

Something needs to be done about pollution by all countries around the globe not just the USA. We cannot solve the globe's pollution problem.

[@kellyemmanuel6888]

We aren’t! ALL the countries were just together. And we finally got China on board. Thats how you know shit is bad!!! I think there are 1 or 2 little countries that didn’t sign it. The contract says that we will ALL phase out of using fossil fuels 50% by 2030. And 100% by 2050.

[@Freedomfred939]

The problem is we spend too much money on virtually non existent problems.

[@cndbrn7975]

The sea level's have not risen in fact in some places it's depleted. CO2 is only 0.06% in the atmosphere . This is not even close to beìng high enough levels to effect climate warming or any other climate changes.

[@henkbielderman4243]

Correction if I may? It is currently 423.6 ppm which means it is 0.04% of the atmosphere.

[@docbrandy915]

And if it drops below 0.03%, vegetation may severely be diminished.

[@gordtron]

no way they're disinterested in contrary evidence to their narrative! what does raskin think about change being cyclic, sun or core temperature?

[@bighog7144]

Where did all that money go?

[@RoseAnderson-if5fz]

The $ went into polititians pockets, pure + simple. They can cook up problems where there are none just so they can make more $.

[@randytucker3083]

We can not count on science that only supports one narrative. We have to check both sides. That is what science is!

[@michaeltillotson3711]

That's just not true. Science doesn't "support a narrative". It just is. The fact that you disagree with it based on nothing isn't science, it's just ignorance

[@yllitleinadable]

Jamie Raskins as a hack!!

[@jones36036]

👍 Johnson

[@markberry270]

If its so true why is ot that all these rich people are building new homes on the Beach. And bunkers in Hawaii? And climate change happens naturally around every 25,000 thousand to 27000 thousand years. We have past that time from u ce ages to warmer times we are still just coming out of the last ice age now itcwill get warmer and start to get colder. Before mankind.

[@ginjjiigok364]

The party of endless wars talks about climate?

[@hank-the-tank4146]

Raskin is a Bolshevik and wants a Soviet style USA with fellow Marxist Dems ruling over every aspect of your life.

[@curtmcguire5431]

The party of endless conspiracies and lies cant comprehend science

[@ginjjiigok364]

@@curtmcguire5431 Like covid coming from a bat, and russia gate,?

[@hugosteegleetz1193]

​@@curtmcguire5431can men give birth?

[@ps_nyisgone]

remember the slogan ..nobody fools with mother nature?

[@jillmoore3987]

Omgosh. I remember that slogan years ago with the lady as mother nature..... Good old days. I am 62 year old lady and seen alot..

[@megamus3]

Since i was a kid in the 60s the great barrier Reef was the go to " global warming" catastrophe example. The great barrier Reef is now doing better than in anytime in recorded history and its NEVER mentioned now.

[@michaeltillotson3711]

Wtf are you on about. It is not doing well

[@megamus3]

@@michaeltillotson3711 oh, has it caught a dose of the left wing covid or equally fanciful left wing mental case" climate change". Last i heard about it it's thriving.

[@dianehickman5960]

The organization in Australia just released a study, yearly study showing growth of the Great Barrier Reef. Look it up instead of parroting what the alarmists & politicians say

[@ontherocks23]

@@michaeltillotson3711 There are a number of factors beyond water temperatures that affect the health of reefs. The Great Barrier Reef is large and there can be local conditions (natural and/or human-caused) that can either make things better or worse.

[@michaeltillotson3711]

@ontherocks23 happy to go into them. But the guy said they are doing better. Is that true or not? And better compared to what and why? I'm sure, since you wanted to join the conversation and point out something incredibly obvious, you would be knowledgeable of the point being discussed.

[@freddykagin]

Ron is very smart and very intelligent and very Right. 🎉🎉🎉

[@everardobasilio7918]

Exactly 💯

[@skwest]

The problem with relying on the scientific authorities is that those authorities depend, increasingly, on government funding, and it is well known that, "He who pays the piper, calls the tune." Government funds results that it can use, and withholds funding from scientists that don't say what it wants to hear. Just sayin'

[@Freedomfred939]

True in spades

[@nateborie6329]

It is honestly amazing how much I actually agree with Johnson on this issue. I genuinely think that there is nothing that we humans can do to stop climate change except adapt to the situation.

[@mikeford1273]

At last we're starting to peek behind the grift that is 'climate emergency '..what there is is Climate.

[@hawkeyeted]

The "scientific authorities" are the direct monetary beneficiaries of this alarmism. The more "alarming" the claim, the more money comes in.

[@cjgazerro622]

Depends on the scientific authorities you give no money to, and do not pay have no involvement with the government. Those are your truth for once.

[@user-rm5pq7gh8y]

This is costing us a lot of money when you could be doing other things for people

[@clintstoner2052]

5 to 6 Trillion 😳 And there’s are free Healthcare.

[@realLetsGoBrandon45]

Just renounce your citizenship. You can get free healthcare and not pay taxes

[@suzankephart8461]

215,2 Trillion unfunded liabilities.

[@everardobasilio7918]

Stolen???

[@user-he2ph9qj2d]

Bravo, adapt and overcome!!!

[@marksommers6764]

The SKY is falling ! SMH....

[@jston60]

I'm 60+ years old and the sea hasn't risen a jot here in Scotland in all that time

[@scottekoontz]

It has risen. oops, try again.

[@northsideservice-pd6cc]

Michael Savage cited the same sample in one of his books. The science is never settled, By definition.

[@paulmorphew1520]

Ask if they all believe this, why are all the rich elites building mansions on the shorelines of the beaches??

[@BUTTERFLY-dv9ht]

We need our own oil ,from the 🇺🇸 USA❤

[@huatazcue]

Trillions of dollars the big climate haux

[@garytalana1832]

All they can do is not show you any transparency

[@steveladner4346]

Jamie is an old man that's never done anything but play kid games and thinks he's still in highschool.

[@lawrencehalpin6611]

It's all about the money. Follow the money.

[@cliffordmacksr724]

So how come you haven't read already written "decenting views"!? WHO DECIDED WHICH VIEW IS DECENTING❗🧐🙄

[@MrBelsik]

If I never heard Jamie raskin talk again it would be too soon . Our government is turned upside down,they don't know which way is up .

[@wesleyhay3881]

There is no such thing as "fossil fuel"!!

[@1Probound]

They'll never stop being alarmists as long as there's taxpayer money to be had. They're all getting rich from the hysteria.

[@leon51203]

weve been hearing that the world going to end for decades now yet were still here climate change is a big con

[@zeuschowie7473]

Crimate Clissis BS

[@Alarix246]

Interesting that the politician knows none of the matter Johnson lays in front of him, but I know even without caring much about the climate idiocy.

[@ouiroc]

The truth is a wonderful thing that never changes

[@Brendonarchie]

Yeeeeeyyyaaaaaa Finally someone has brought it up ,

[@immobilien]

So what caused the Ice Age? Dinosaur Farts?

[@Freedomfred939]

Al Gores caveman ancestors held protests and sit ins against the dead tree and dry stick industry when the glaciers began to melt. Now look where we are, hardly a glacier can be found in the continental US.

[@user-rm5pq7gh8y]

Thank God for mr johnson

[@buggadugg]

Name Dropper Jamie ... This time it's "Big Oil". This is the limit to his uncapable mind.

[@peoplez129]

After being soo wrong, a normal person might say to themselves, "Well I guess I know nothing, I'm not qualified to even have an opinion on this". But that never occurs to people like Raskin.

[@garyt-of6yb]

IF BIDEN WENT AWAY OUR CLIMATE WOULD IMMEDIATELY GET BETTER!

[@pecquet-dubalaix8288]

Quick, somebody hurry and plug the Natural Gas vents on the Oceans Floor.

[@user-rm5pq7gh8y]

It's a joke

[@Augustus99100]

We are literally in an ice age. We had minimal impact on sea levels and will have minimal impact in the next 20000 years.

[@mweb1]

Noi such thing as fossil fuel. We have OIL.

[@MrClark68]

I’m not sure who is more easily bought; politicians or scientists.

[@Ericah81]

Why waste all of our money if these other countries aren’t gonna stop all of their cold plants. The only people here are American taxpayers do you think Jamie Raskin is paying for any of that?

[@marystecky2013]

Raskin seems clueless! These people just want to take money !

[@cjgazerro622]

Solar output, controls the earths temperature in turn control CO2 output, which is good more CO2 more plants do you wanna soak up more CO2 plant trees plant greenery plant mangroves

[@harkey8125]

These people been saying the sea levels rising for 50 years now and yet if it actually was New York City would be underwater

[@mike203203]

It's much like the covid pandemic - much of the science was inconclusive or not agreed upon, but the politicians erred on the side of spending trillions of dollars. Someone is getting rich.

[@chazbedlam]

The biggest scam ever put upon the public.

[@remowilliams8421]

Lol Man get a clue! He just told you there ain't nothing we could do about it that we have to adapt to it.

[@robincarroll4371]

And yet so many build houses on the oceans, and financed. 😅

[@Freedomfred939]

The sun is a million times bigger than earth yet its variation in energy output is never mentioned.

[@glennwingfield8681]

Note the statement from United Nations. 🤦‍♂️

[@jcool1282]

We are "GUESTS" on earth, Enjoy your SHORT STAY, Be respectful and responsible, The Earth will correct Itself! 50 million years old, we only have 150 yrs of data. How can we possibly know what works and doesn't

[@douglaslucas7612]

I've had some experience with Bull shippers like this with my tenants.

[@kenneth8497]

Oh how the scales swing.

[@Freedomfred939]

The purpose of a representative is to question the experts and point out inconsistancies in their narrative, not be experts themselves.

[@davidmiller2811]

Waisting time on the people's dime, DC THEATER

[@kennethyoung2221]

The only thing more tedious than politicians interviewing each other is news actors/actresses interviewing each other. Plus, here, Raskin is the designated liar for Democrats on every subject.

[@user-jn1wz7om2r]

We sure do have some crazy people in the white house.