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Posted on 01/03/2009 7:33:43 AM PST by presidio9
Global warming is serious problem, not a "hoax," and requires more than a state response, Gov. Mike Beebe said Friday.
"I think it's a threat, and I think global warming is occurring," Beebe said in response to a caller to his statewide radio program who said he believed the climate change crisis was a "hoax."
Another caller asked if Arkansas was going to promote a national carbon tax, which is being discussed in Washington, D.C., as a way to get companies to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere, a major cause of global warming.
Any initiative designed to tackle the global warming issue "shouldn't be done on a state-by-state basis ... It should be done regional, national or global," Beebe said during his monthly call-in show "Ask the Governor" on the Arkansas Radio Network.
In October, the Governor's Commission on Global Warming recommended the state impose a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants in the state until technology to capture emissions improves. Southwestern Electric Power Co. is building a $1.5 billion coal-fired plant in Southwest Arkansas.
The commission, which said the plants are a major source of carbon emissions, also suggested a carbon tax that would set a fee for the release of carbon into the atmosphere.
In November, the state Department of Environmental Quality granted an air quality permit for the construction of a new coal-fired power plant in Hempstead County.
Last month, opponents presented the governor with 3,700 signatures on petitions asking that the project be halted until environmental concerns can be addressed. Beebe said he did not think he has the authority to impose such a moratorium.
Responding to another caller Friday, Beebe said he had not reviewed a bill pre-filed this week that would allow consumers to place security freezes on their credit reports, but said he agrees with the concept.
Rep. Dawn Creekmore, D-Hensley, prefiled a bill for the upcoming legislative session that would expand the state's current security-freeze law and allow all consumers, not just those who have already been victims of identity theft, to place freezes on their credit reports.
In 2007, Beebe vetoed similar legislation by Creekmore, saying he was concerned that parts of the legislation might be taken advantage of by those wanting to commit identify theft.
"We had some concerns that it would do more harm than good," the governor said Friday.
Beebe later in the 2007 session signed a measure backed by Attorney General Dustin McDaniel that allows credit freezes for victims of identify theft.
Late last year, three of the nation's main credit bureaus began allowing consumers to places freezes on their reports, regardless of whether they were victims of identify theft.
"If this can be written in such a way that you can do this even before you've been affected by a credit problem, then yes, I can be supportive of it," Beebe said. "The concept is 'yes, let's protect the consumers, but let's not make it easier for the bad guys.'"
Bebee belongs in the same crowd as those insisted there were witches and the sun and planets revolve around the earth despite scientific proof that they were not true.
At first I thought Netanyahu had lost his mind.
Sign of progress.
We now have them saying it is not a hoax.
A sure sign that it is.
Record snowfalls for all time here in the NW. Think how reassuring it is that we’re not undergoing disaster scenarios of global cooling. Imagine the hysteria in the press.
But since the going hysteria is warming, not a word in the papers about the effect of paralyzing snows.
Sigh. Gotta get out and shovel the walks.
Politicians. “we’ll let them build new $1.5 billion coal fired power plants. We just won’t let them operate”.
A good start on breaking the coal based power industry.
I say fire it anyhow. Hire a well armed security force to protect it from government thugs. And lets play chess.
Resistance is not just an electrical term.
"The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible — global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes — with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet."
"I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don't think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, 'tomorrow could be too late, let's do now what we need to do'."
"I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world — a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet."
--Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005
He’s wrong.... it’s a hoax.
Any state which restricts it’s own development of electrical generating capacity should be forbidden from buying electricity generated from another state. The residents of such restrictive states should be forced to live with the consequences of their own actions as voters and pay the manipulated market rate for rare electrons.
Just WHAT is it about the spontaneous generation of AR governators anyway? Long line of clowns.
What is? Global warming in general or 'man-made' global warming?
What was Mike Beebe saying about the disastrous “global cooling” in the 70’s?
When we first were dragged, kicking and screaming, to Arkansas back in 1956-1959, we noticed that snow and cold weather usually came a week before Thanksgiving to a week after Thanksgiving.
In the last few years, 2005-2008, the snows and cold weather still come a week before to a week after Thanksgiving.
Can I blame Glo-bull warming?
Now the government news agency tells us it's not a scam. Who to believe.
Going to really find out how dumb people are this time.
When has the failed economic policy of a state been a deterrent to a similarly imposed federal policy?
Only if it happened in a Republican controlled state.
Next question is to find a Republican controlled state that is fiscally bankrupt and compare that total to the number of Democrat controlled states that are fiscally bankrupt.
I think the Democrats win the failed economic question hands down! They can inch down a lot lower with stupid carbon taxes on their industry and the citizens who were formerly employed when they close up shop.
The idea that man can change the activities of the sun is worse than ignorant! Reminds me of the Tower of Babel story where man was going to build a tower to heaven. And how did that work out for the experts of the day?
Global temperatures go up and down, but the probability that the next large temperature swing is going to head toward a new ice age is a lot higher than the probability it will be upwards.
Clearly, AR mustn’t have any coal reserves...
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We can’t afford the luxury of greening ourselves into an even worse enonomy to feed these liberals thirst for power (political not electric). Without coal-powered electricity all those all electric homes in Arkansas will get mighty cold in winter and hot in summer. They gave up Huckabe for this BB brain. They would have been better off with Bill Bristow.
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