I almost missed this, as it received little coverage in the press. Apparently the legislature of Utah has passed HJR 12, a bill that disputes the science of global warming and condemns what the bill calls “climate alarmists.”
So I guess the law makers in Utah feel that they can pass laws when they don’t like the laws of nature. Maybe Utah might even consider repealing the second law of thermodynamics because it makes everything fall apart.
Though the measure carries no weight, it urges the EPA to end its carbon dioxide reduction policies until “climate data and global warming science is substantiated.” The rest of the bill is just as frighteningly unsound, making claims that climate scientists manipulate data, manipulate peer reviewed journals, and claiming that some of the scientific findings of the climate scientists have been discredited. At least some of the more inflammatory rhetoric was stricken from the bill, that climate scientists were riding a “gravy train” and incorporating “tricks” into their work.
Interestingly, nowhere in the bill do they address the real science of climate change: that CO2 is a greenhouse gas; that we are pumping more and more of it into the atmosphere; that the levels of CO2 are increasing in the atmosphere: and that world temperatures are getting warmer.
Sometimes those inconvenient truths are both inconvenient and inconveniently true.
There has always been a certain amount of Big Crazy in American politics. There have been Jim Crow and segregation laws, McCarthyism, and laws requiring that a six pack of beer leave a store in a bag. Big Crazy continues in Utah.
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