Posted on 11/23/2019 3:42:08 PM PST by CedarDave
A New Mexico climate change task force released its first report Thursday, citing progress that has been made to combat the “climate crisis” and recommendations for the state climate strategy.
Among other findings, the task force said New Mexico produced more than 66 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 – about 1% of the national total. The state is home to about 0.6% of the nation’s population ...
Overall, New Mexicans produce 31 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per person per year, the report found. The national average is 18 tons per person.
“It is not hyperbole to suggest the stakes are higher than perhaps ever before in human history,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, said in the introduction to the 28-page report, while adding that New Mexico would “step up” to the challenge.
In its report released Thursday, the task force recommends that state agencies “pick up the pace of our work” to reach the emission targets set by the Energy Transition Act, a landmark renewable energy bill passed during this year’s 60-day legislative session.
New Mexico is already experiencing the effects of climate change, according to the report, which cites hotter and longer summers, more intense storms, more frequent droughts, and declining air and water quality.
“Even with current and planned policies to reduce our emissions, we will likely fall short of our goals without a broader market-based program to reduce carbon usage and emissions,” the report reads.
While environmental groups praised the report, organizations like Power the Future took issue with the state’s initiatives. “This is a love letter to radical environmentalists disguised as a government report,” said Larry Behrens, western states director for the group. “The ideas presented will kill energy jobs in our state while green corporations will reap the profits.
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How about THEY give up THEIR lifestyles first?????
What, do they want everyone to move into Albuquerque, live in a tiny apartment that is cold in the winter and hot in the summer, and ride a bicycle or government owned & operated solar powered bus to work and the store?
(Rhetorical question... That IS one of the things they want...The other thing they want is for most of us to just die.)
How about second-hand methane from beans?
1. Give up coal firing plants, gasoline powered cars and engines, no more jets, buses motorcycles and kill all the cattle that provides us food?.
2. Kill all the liberals and use them for fertilizer to grow crops?
WOW! Swallowed the Kool-Aid big time!
Yup,kinda makes a fella proud to be from the Gay State! /s
NM can do whatever they want, but first the leadership is going to have to explain how they plan to replace all the money and jobs that will be lost to wackadoodle pipe dreams of a NM utopia, bearing in mind wind and solar isn’t sustainable without permanent government subsidies:
from the NM Oil and Gas Assn website:
30% of the NM General Fund comes from Oil and Gas Production
14.2% of the state budget, or $11.3B, comes from Oil and Gas
The average industry salary is $71K, $20K higher than the average salary across all other NM industries
The Oil and Gas Industry has added 100,000 jobs to NM
source:
https://www.nmoga.org/benefits_of_oil_natural_gas
The governor should take the lead by ordering all government offices to lower the thermostats to 65 degrees or less in cold weather & raise it to 75 degrees or more in warm weather, while banning fans & space heaters in all these offices. His office should lead this by immediate example.
I’m still waiting .........
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