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Global Warming Not A 'Hoax,' Beebe Says
AK Morning News ^ | January 2, 2009 | Rob Moritz

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.'"


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: algore; beebe; globalwarming; globalwarmingtheory; greens
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To: presidio9

Does Arkansas offer anything besidea Beebes and Clintons?


41 posted on 01/03/2009 8:57:39 AM PST by RoadTest (The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? - Jer.17:9)
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To: Tax-chick

haha, I was down in Hot Springs yesterday. on resort cable they had and ad for some raslin match, on the end of the commercial it said Hot Springs , AK , I was shocked they didn’t know the difference, I know the end of it had to be produced by the cable company lol.


42 posted on 01/03/2009 8:59:00 AM PST by 09Patriot (I am a MILITANT Conservative, compassionate conservatism got us NOWHERE)
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To: fella

thats because hucksterbee damaged the repugnican party in arkansas, then they used one of BUsh’s homelandinsecurity stooges to run against beebee. the repugnican party gave up this cycle they let a senate and 2 congress seats go unanswered.


43 posted on 01/03/2009 9:02:12 AM PST by 09Patriot (I am a MILITANT Conservative, compassionate conservatism got us NOWHERE)
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To: ETL
Hugo Chavez on ["man-made"] Global Warming, from GreenLeft.org

What an idiot. Does he not realize that when the Greenies say oil companies are the problem thay INCLUDES oil producers like his country?

If he was really concerned, he could order his wells capped and voila! Problem solved.

Of course he knows this is just a scam to squeeze Yanquis for their dollars as well as their freedoms.
44 posted on 01/03/2009 9:10:50 AM PST by RedMonqey (Embracing my "Inner Redneck")
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To: RedMonqey

Excellent points!


45 posted on 01/03/2009 9:13:26 AM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: al baby

(( ping ))


46 posted on 01/03/2009 9:15:21 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: presidio9

“Global warming” hoax BUMP!


47 posted on 01/03/2009 9:15:56 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: presidio9

Another Gov that sees more taxes.


48 posted on 01/03/2009 9:18:10 AM PST by bmwcyle (I have no President as of Jan 20th 2009. No Congress either.)
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To: wgflyer

They salivate over all that centralized command government control. It’s the power, stupid, the power!


49 posted on 01/03/2009 9:19:16 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: ETL

Just stating the obvious.

Thank you....


50 posted on 01/03/2009 9:19:51 AM PST by RedMonqey (Embracing my "Inner Redneck")
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To: docbnj
I hate to sound tedious, but where in the Constitution does it say that the Federal government should regulate climate?

It's the "general welfare" clause. It means the government can do anything.
Hope this helps!

FRegards,
LH

51 posted on 01/03/2009 9:20:52 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: presidio9

A telling use of the pejorative, “bad guys,” to describe those whose task it is to produce electrical power. Filthy capitalists.


52 posted on 01/03/2009 9:24:56 AM PST by Elsiejay
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To: ETL
"What is? Global warming in general or 'man-made' global warming"?

Both

Ice Age Now

53 posted on 01/03/2009 9:28:45 AM PST by USAF70 (America is not 'governed' by the President or Congress. America is governed by the U.S.Constitution.)
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To: presidio9
And to think just 30 years ago we thought this was fiction.

54 posted on 01/03/2009 9:36:30 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: presidio9

I have high expectations from Arkansas Governors. (s.)


55 posted on 01/03/2009 9:48:09 AM PST by ChessExpert (The Dow was at 12,400 when Democrats took control of Congress. What is it today?)
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To: presidio9

YES IT IS A HOAX. Only believed by libtards.


56 posted on 01/03/2009 10:07:20 AM PST by TheConservativeParty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not why the ship was built." by The First Gal of AK)
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To: presidio9
The signs of government withdrawal symptoms as tax revenue falls (due to the government caused falling economy is government officials acting irrationally and in need of psychiatric care.

Where are the straight jackets and the Thorazine shots?

57 posted on 01/03/2009 10:07:50 AM PST by jonrick46
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To: presidio9

It’s not a hoax, it’s a plot.


58 posted on 01/03/2009 10:18:51 AM PST by samtheman
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To: RoadTest
Does Arkansas offer anything besidea Beebes and Clintons?

Sure. Huckabeebees

59 posted on 01/03/2009 10:48:29 AM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81; RoadTest
RT>Does Arkansas offer anything besidea Beebes and Clintons?

Sure. Huckabeebees

There must be something in the water.

OBTW they are downstream from me.


60 posted on 01/03/2009 10:53:28 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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