UT Governor's Advisers Try To Talk Climate, State Rep. Responds "So, you drank the Kool-Aid too."

[hatrack]

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is looking to lawmakers to help position Utah on climate change. Trouble is, some them think the issue is nonsense.

For instance, when one of the governor's advisers started explaining this week why Utah is part of a regional carbon cap-and-trade program, Rep. Mike Noel fired back: "So, you drank the Kool-Aid, too." The Kanab Republican, a proponent of nuclear power, also told a fellow legislator: "You understand, when you are breathing, you are polluting. I don't think it's polluting to breathe, that's my point."

Other members of the Legislature's Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee suggested it was wrongheaded to try cutting climate pollution because it would hurt Utah's economy and consumers.

Department of Environmental Quality Director Rick Sprott and Huntsman's energy adviser, Dianne Nielson, discussed how, under the Western Climate Initiative that Huntsman joined last year, participating states have until 2012 to start a cap-and-trade program to control six gases blamed for climate change. To meet that requirement, Huntsman needs lawmakers to create a joint legislative-executive branch task force to design a kind of stock exchange where the commodities traded are carbon pollution and carbon pollution avoided.

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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10739753

[yellowcanine]

1. "You understand, when you are breathing, you are polluting. I don't think it's polluting to breathe,

Actually it is Mike. And when you shit also. Truth: YOU pollute every time you open any of your orifices.

[jwirr]

2. In these southwestern states why don't they come at it from a drought

position - emphasizing the fires, water shortages, etc. that are very visible. Then these deniers would be refusing to talk about situations the are hurting the people of Utah.

[frebrd]

3. Only the church-approved Koolaid is acceptable. n/t