Fifteen states have polluter-driven resolutions to deny climate threat

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"All politics is local." Former Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill

We need to start defeating some of these folks at the local state government levels.

Yesterday, the South Dakota legislature passed a resolution telling public schools to teach "balance" about the "prejudiced" science of climate change by a vote of 37-33. Earlier language that ascribed "astrological" influences to global warming was stripped from the final version.

This act of conspiracy-driven ideology is hardly alone -- a Wonk Room investigation has found at least 15 state legislatures attempting to prevent limits on greenhouse gas pollution. The states of Alabama and Utah have already adopted resolutions calling for the overturn of the Environmental Protection Agency's global warming endangerment finding, with legislators in 13 more states in tow. Several of these "Dirty Air Act" resolutions argue that the overwhelming scientific consensus on the threat of man-made global warming is actually a conspiracy...

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Every resolution makes the false claim that protecting citizens from hazardous climate pollution would hurt the economy, instead of recognizing the potential of a green recovery...

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The most legally bizarre resolution is Arizona state senator Sylvia Allen's (R-Ariz.) "tenther" argument that the U.S. Congress does not have the Constitutional authority to regulate greenhouse gas pollution. Allen also believes the Earth is 6000 years old. The other Arizona resolution, along with the Kentucky, Virginia, and Washington resolutions, would attempt to block state enforcement of global warming rules.

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http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-02-fifteen-states-have-polluter-driven-resolutions-to-deny-climate/

[panzerfaust]

1. This should deal with the issue - make Global Warming illegal!

As before, for those who are curious about the science, I suggest looking at Skeptical Science

For those who are only interested in blind belief, please contact Senator Sylvia Allen.


We Have No Planet-B

[deaniac21]

2. They should be forced to buy carbon offsets.

[ljm2002]

3. Lysenkoism...

...from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

Lysenkoism is used colloquially to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.

(...)

The word is derived from a set of political and social campaigns in science and agriculture by the director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Trofim Denisovich Lysenko and his followers, which began in the late 1920s and formally ended in 1964.

I remember when we used to make fun of it and laugh at the USSR for every having operated in such an irrational manner in their sciences.

The joke's on us now.

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4. I had no idea there was a specific term for it.

Thanks, ljm2002

[GoCubsGo]

5. What? South Carolina isn't on that list?

I'm stunned. Too busy trying to sue the Obama Administration for closing Yucca Mt., I guess. I am sure my state legislature will jump on the bandwagon soon, embarrassments that they are.