US House Gets "Balanced Biblical View" On Climate Policy, Plus Joe Barton, Lord Monckton - AFP

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — As President Barack Obama tries to green the United States by slapping limits on carbon emissions, Congress has been was told to ignore his plan because climate change does not exist. "The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing," said British aristocrat Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, a leading proponent of the "climate change is myth" movement.

The Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, who was an advisor to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, argued before the Energy and Environment Subcommittee that for 14 years, contrary to broadly accepted scientific beliefs, "there has been no statistically significant global warming." The House hearing, titled "Adaptation Policies in Climate Legislation," discussed ways to address President Barack Obama's cap-and-trade proposal in his 3.55-trillion-dollar budget plan, presented to Congress in February.

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Adaptation is at present unnecessary," said Lord Monckton at the hearing. "Mitigation is always unnecessary. It is also disproportionately expensive. "Green jobs are the new euphemism for mass unemployment," he added.

Addressing the hearing on the "balanced Biblical view" for environment and development issues, Pastor Calvin Beisner -- national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance, a coalition of clergy, theologians and religious leaders -- questioned proposed efforts to combat climate change. "I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive," he said. "The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and ... therefore robust, resilient, and self regulating, like the product of any good engineer." Beisner argued that policies to reduce carbon emissions would destroy jobs and be prohibitively expensive.

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1. Biblical views of ANYTHING, balanced or not, have absolutely no place

being argued before our Congress.

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2. jobs == mass unemployment. Orwell would be proud.