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Home Front: Politix
Utah delivers vote of no confidence for 'climate alarmists'
2010-02-13
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."
The only thing we need to fear is fear itself? What a concept.
Posted by:gorb

#4  Their religious beliefs are such that once they have emotionally invested in some stupid idea, they will follow it off a cliff, and try to drag as many of us with them as they can.

It's the same mindset as the Left's after the Florida vote. As they've amply demonstrated, there can be no negotiations or rational dealing with them. Their minds are closed to reason.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-02-13 12:18  

#3  I've been pointing out that these AGW con artists are in it for the money and political power, so just proving them wrong accomplishes nothing--they already know it is all lies--so will continue to push for it despite all evidence to the contrary.

What will stop them is to remove them from their positions of authority, as the mildest rebuke, and to criminally sanction them for fraud, on the extreme.

Those that are at least halfway honest give it away when they say, that "Even if AGW is wrong, we should still shift all this money and power, because it's the 'right' thing to do."

Their religious beliefs are such that once they have emotionally invested in some stupid idea, they will follow it off a cliff, and try to drag as many of us with them as they can. "But it's for the environment!" is just as pathetic an emotional manipulation as "But it's for the children!"

They are firm believers in "emotionalism", that it is even *more* important that "everyone cares", than if anything tangible is accomplished at all. It is a bizarre and twisted psyche that demands emotional taxation--that everyone else must feel as they feel, on command.

This is why for them, stoicism, skepticism and cynicism of their ideas are almost criminal, and must be roundly cursed.

"You are not of the body! Landru! Help us, Landru!"
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-02-13 09:58  

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

If you actually look at the evidence, it is damning - for the people trying to commit the biggest scientific fraud since the Piltdown Man. It is a pity that journalists ran with the scary end of the world story and have not shown the least bit of scientific curiosity. But then they are journalists, aren't they?
Posted by: SteveS   2010-02-13 09:54  

#1  nice Al-Grauniad sneering: "political masters", "against all evidence". The lying fuckwits at East Anglia and their "green" "watermelon" supporters in the media are having a hard time with the exposure of their fraud. Careers need to be ruined over this
Posted by: Frank G   2010-02-13 07:22  

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