Utah delivers vote of no confidence for 'climate alarmists'

[Desertdog]

Has anybody seen this story in the SRM (State Run Media)@ MSM?  I guess the guardian.co.uk is the only one that prints the truth in MSM now a days.  I wonder why their circulations has dropped so much for the Liberal media.
 
nvironment Climate change scepticism Utah delivers vote of no confidence for 'climate alarmists'
The US's most Republican state passes bill disputing science of climate change, claiming emissions are 'essentially harmless'

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 February 2010 18.20 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/12/utah-climate-alarmists

Carbon dioxide is "essentially harmless" to human beings and good for plants. So now will you stop worrying about global warming?


Utah's House of Representatives apparently has at least. Officially the most Republican state in America, its political masters have adopted a resolution condemning "climate alarmists", and disputing any scientific basis for global warming.


The measure, which passed by 56-17, has no legal force, though it was predictably claimed by climate change sceptics as a great victory in the wake of the controversy caused by a mistake over Himalayan glaciers in the UN's landmark report on global warming.


But it does offer a view of state politicians' concerns in Utah which is a major oil and coal producing state.


The original version of the bill dismissed climate science as a "well organised and ongoing effort to manipulate and incorporate "tricks" related to global temperature data in order to produce a global warming outcome". It accused those seeking action on climate change of riding a "gravy train" and their efforts would "ultimately lock billions of human beings into long-term poverty".


In the heat of the debate, the representative Mike Noel said environmentalists were part of a vast conspiracy to destroy the American way of life and control world population through forced sterilisation and abortion.


By the time the final version of the bill came to a vote, cooler heats apparently prevailed. The bill dropped the word "conspiracy", and described climate science as "questionable" rather than "flawed".


However, it insisted – against all evidence – that the hockey stick graph of changing temperatures was discredited. It also called on the federal government's Environmental Protection Agency to order an immediate halt in its moves to regulate greenhouse gas emissions "until a full and independent investigation of climate data and global warming science can be substantiated".


As Noel explained: "Sometimes ... we need to have the courage to do nothing."

[Monkeyleg]

However, it insisted – against all evidence – that the hockey stick graph of changing temperatures was discredited.

Oh, you mean evidence such as the warming period in the Middle Ages and other times that have already been documented, but were deleted from the hockey stick?

[MicroBalrog]

"Civilisations don't die, they commit suicide. And before they commit suicide, they read and believe the Guardian."

[Marnoot]

Utah H.J.R. 12 --  Climate Change Joint Resolution -- Gibson, K. documents.

Text of resolution (Items in brackets were redacted from final version):

CLIMATE CHANGE JOINT RESOLUTION
             2     
2010 GENERAL SESSION

             3     
STATE OF UTAH

             4     
Chief Sponsor: Kerry W. Gibson
             5     
Senate Sponsor: Scott K. Jenkins

             6     
             7      LONG TITLE
             8      General Description:
             9          This joint resolution of the Legislature urges the United States Environmental
             10      Protection Agency to cease its carbon dioxide reduction policies, programs, and
             11      regulations until climate data and global warming science are substantiated.
             12      Highlighted Provisions:
             13          This resolution:
             14          .    urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency to immediately halt its
             15      carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs and withdraw its "Endangerment
             16      Finding" and related regulations until a full and independent investigation of H. [ the ] .H
             17      climate data H. [ conspiracy ] .H and global warming science can be substantiated.
             18      Special Clauses:
             19          None
             20     
             21      Be it resolved by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             22          WHEREAS, proposed cap and trade legislation before the United States Congress,
             23      together with potential state actions to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2), would result in
             24      significantly higher energy costs to American consumers, business, and industry;
             25          WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)
             26      "Endangerment Finding" and proposed action to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act is based
             27      on H. [ flawed ] questionable .H climate data and would place significant regulatory and
             27a      financial burdens on all
             28      sectors of the nation's economy at a time when the nation's unemployment rate exceeds 10%;
             29          WHEREAS, global temperatures have been level and declining in some areas over the
             30      past 12 years;
             31          WHEREAS, the "hockey stick" global warming assertion has been discredited and
             32      climate alarmists' carbon dioxide-related global warming hypothesis is unable to account for
             33      the current downturn in global temperatures;
             34          WHEREAS, there is a statistically more direct correlation between twentieth century
             35      temperature rise and Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere than CO2;
             36          WHEREAS, outlawed and largely phased out by 1978, in the year 2000 CFC's began to
             37      decline at approximately the same time as global temperatures began to decline;
             38          WHEREAS, emails and other communications between climate researchers around the
             39      globe, referred to as "Climategate," indicate a well organized and ongoing effort to manipulate
             40      H. [ and incorporate "tricks" related to ] .H global temperature data in order to produce a global
             41      warming outcome;
             42          WHEREAS, there has been a concerted effort by climate change alarmists to
             43      marginalize those in the scientific community who are skeptical of global warming by
             44      manipulating or pressuring peer-reviewed publications to keep contrary or competing scientific
             45      viewpoints and findings on global warming from being reviewed and published;
             46          WHEREAS, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a blend of
             47      government officials and scientists, does no independent climate research but relies on global
             48      climate researchers;
             49          WHEREAS, Earth's climate is constantly changing with recent warming potentially an
             50      indication of a return to more normal temperatures following a prolonged cooling period from
             51      1250 to 1860 called the "Little Ice Age";
             52          WHEREAS, H. [ the climate change "gravy train," estimated at ] .H more than $7 billion
             53      annually in federal government grants, may have influenced the climate research focus and
             54      findings that have produced a "scientific consensus" at research institutions and universities;
             55          WHEREAS, the recently completed Copenhagen climate change summit resulted in
             56      little agreement, especially among growing CO2-emitting nations like China and India, and
             57      calls on the United States to pay billions of dollars to developing countries to reduce CO2
             58      emissions at a time when the United States' national debt will exceed $12 trillion;
             59          WHEREAS, the United States Department of Agriculture estimates that current
             60      legislation providing agriculture offsets and carbon credits to reduce CO2 emissions would
             61      result in tree planting on 59 million acres of crop and pasture land, damaging America's food
             62      security and rural communities;
             63          WHEREAS, according to the World Health Organization, 1.6 billion people do not
             64      have adequate food and clean water; and
             65          WHEREAS, global governance related to global warming and reduction of CO2 would
             66      ultimately lock billions of human beings into long-term poverty:
             67          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of the state of Utah
             68      urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency to immediately halt its carbon
             69      dioxide reduction policies and programs and withdraw its "Endangerment Finding" and related
             70      regulations until a full and independent investigation of H. [ the ] .H climate data
             70a      H. [ conspiracy ] .H and global
             71      warming science can be substantiated.
             72          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent to the United
             73      States Environmental Protection Agency and to the members of Utah's congressional
             74      delegation.