Utah State Rep. - Global Warming A Giant Conspiracy To Limit Human Population Growth

Rep. Mike Noel, the Legislature's chief climate-change skeptic, declared Thursday that global warming is a conspiracy to control world population. The House Natural Resources Committee then approved a resolution that expresses the Utah Legislature's belief that "climate alarmists' carbon dioxide-related global warming hypothesis is unable to account for the current downturn in global temperatures."

The resolution, sent to the House on a 10-1 vote, would urge the Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate the pollution blamed for climate change "until a full and independent investigation of the climate data conspiracy and global warming science can be substantiated."

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Rep. Phil Riesen, R-Holladay, questioned Gibson about the "conspiracy" wording in the resolution. "A conspiracy?" he asked. "By whom? To what end?" "I'm not sure we'll ever know the depths of it," said Gibson, adding that it was hard to separate the hype because "we only hear one side of the argument."

Rep. Roger Barrus, R-Centerville, who supported the anti-regulation part of the resolution, called the wording "pretty inflammatory" and counter to the Legislature's standards of civility. But Noel defended the "conspiracy" wording, pointing to an out-of-print textbook, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment , written in the 1970s by biologist Paul Ehr - -lich, Ehrlich's wife, Anne, and physicist John Holdren about the potential hazards of unchecked population.

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I read that somewhere.

I'd like to imagine they aren't so mathematically impaired that they think it's +oo, but I may be too optimistic. Or, do they think that God will intervene and make the earth larger, to allow our population to increase without bound? Or maybe they think that when we reach the "true non-liberal-biased" carrying capacity our population will stabilize in a wholesome, patriotic, god-fearing way? Or is the rapture supposed to happen before any of these icky details become a problem?

Or is it all just about vehemently disagreeing with anything the DFHs support?

buried golden tablets in a field in Illinois, you can convince yourself of pretty much anything. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

WOW!!! - This will overheat the fact checking machine
http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/hbillint/hjr012.htm

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 the
17 climate data conspiracy and global warming science can be substantiated.
18 Special Clauses:
19 None
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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 flawed climate data and would place significant regulatory and 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 and incorporate "tricks" related to 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, the climate change "gravy train," estimated at 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 the climate data conspiracy 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.