New House Science Committee chair Ralph Hall (R-TX) threatens to subpoena climate scientists #p2

As we saw that thing bubbling out, blossoming out – all that energy, every minute of every hour of every day of every week – that was tremendous to me. That we could deliver that kind of energy out there – even on an explosion.

That's Ralph Hall (R-TX), the incoming chair of the House Science and Technology Committee on the BP oil disaster.  Imagine how bowled over Hall will be if he ever figures out that his anti-science pro-pollution denialist policies are poised to deliver a ruined climate to future generations (see Ralph Hall: "We have some real challenges; we have the global warming or global freezing").

Brad Johnson has more:

Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) plans to pursue an aggressive pro-oil agenda as the incoming chair of the House Science and Technology Committee. In an interview with the Dallas Morning News this month, the "unconditional champion of fossil fuels" described his zeal for the "holy grail" of the oil industry — the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — discussed issuing subpoenas to interrogate climate scientists, and explained why the BP disaster "didn't dampen his enthusiasm for offshore drilling."

Hall described the BP explosion that killed eleven men, injured dozens, and led to the despoilment of the Gulf of Mexico as a "tremendous," "blossoming" flower of energy:  "As we saw that thing bubbling out, blossoming out – all that energy, every minute of every hour of every day of every week – that was tremendous to me. That we could deliver that kind of energy out there – even on an explosion."

In an extensive report yesterday, the New York Times describes the explosion differently: "Dazed and battered survivors, half-naked and dripping in highly combustible gas, crawled inch by inch in pitch darkness, willing themselves to the lifeboat deck. . . . Crew members, certain they were about to be cooked alive, scrambled into enclosed lifeboats for shelter, only to find them like smoke-filled ovens."

Only conservatives can marvel at the damage their policies are doing — and then in the same breath continue doing them.  The same Dallas News story reports:

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