Climate Inaction Commitee

The government is on track for negative progress.

"Finally, there’s Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL). Shimkus opposes a cap-and-trade scheme as too damaging to the coal industry. He doesn’t think it’s a good idea to limit the emission of greenhouse gases anyway. After all, he says, 'if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?'—a question that led the National Wildlife Foundation to wonder if he could seriously believe that plants depend on automobile exhaust and factory emissions to survive. And Shimkus doesn’t think it's possible for us to seriously damage the environment, because God promised Noah that 'As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.'"