On 5/1/2024, during a senate hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took the witness stand to reel through the examples the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability gathered in a probe that began when Democrats had control of the House. Through subpoenas, the committee obtained more than 2 million pages of documents from four oil companies and two trade associations.

‘That Doesn’t Make Sense—Does It?’: Kennedy Embarreses Raskin Over Climate Change Mitigation Efforts
The discussion includes the significant carbon emissions from boreal forest fires compared to industrial emissions. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said that more carbon dioxide emissions were being produced by fires in Canada’s boreal forests than would be reduced by the Biden administration’s signature climate initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) noted that sea level has risen 390 feet since 20,000 years ago (which happens to be the peak of the last Ice Age, when sea levels plunged). Both Kennedy and Johnson argued it was folly to take action to stem climate change by reducing fossil fuel emissions. Kennedy questions the effectiveness of spending trillions to combat climate change, pointing out the scale of natural emissions.

Kennedy said 4 billion people around the world depend on fertilizer derived from natural gas for food production: “If we didn’t have natural gas, 4 billion people would starve to death. What do we do about that?”

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Raskin Embarrassed: World Population 4.5B Kennedy: 8B; Canada’s boreal forests fires produce more CO2