Posted on 03/11/2019 1:34:08 PM PDT by Twotone
Idaho lawmakers had their first official hearing about climate change — and no one argued about its existence or causes.
The House Environment, Energy and Technology committee hearing on Wednesday, carefully scripted through negotiations between the Republican majority and Democrats, represented a new phase in an evolving transformation.
The impacts of a changing climate on Idaho are not new to residents who now annually suffer through “smoke season” in the summer. Climate change isn’t new to residents who, in early March, flock to earlier spring runoffs that show why Shoshone Falls on the Snake River at Twin Falls is “the Niagara of the West.”
We have seen our fall nights warm enough to allow winemakers in Idaho to grow grapes for stunning red wines, impossible just 35 years ago. Even Bogus Basin’s average opening has shifted from November to mid-December as warmer temperatures bring rain instead of snow, limiting the ski area’s most profitable days.
But a 30-year campaign by fossil fuel companies and others to exploit the uncertainty surrounding climate change first politicized the very existence of the rapid warming of the planet, then politicized the greenhouse effect of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuel.
Despite Idaho’s leadership reducing carbon for electricity, Republicans have remained on the skeptic side of the debate. But Idaho Gov. Brad Little broke ground in January when he called for action to reverse climate change.
“Climate is changing; there’s no question about it,” he told the Idaho Environmental Forum."
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
A conservative state such as Idaho is pushing global warming?
Really???
Really? Idaho? We’re doomed unless we fix it ourselves.
lol
There are sane areas in every state.
Some have a LOT of sane areas.
None have no insane areas anymore.
Sad.
What the hell happened to Idaho? California and Washington invaders?
Oh noez! We can grow red wine here now. The sky is falling
You packed yet? Disgusting ain’t it.
“the very existence of the rapid warming of the planet”
No such rapid warming exists, and even the nutjobs in the grant driven agencies don’t say things like that.
I just finished UNpacking. I guess it’s time to sit down & write some letters. I wonder if anyone will read them.
PS
The agenda driven maroon who wrote this crap is an old Watermelon from the midwest who’s been pushing this drivel since the 1970s...when he was probably panicked about The Coming Ice Age.
His keen knowledge about computational fluid dynamics on a global atmospheric scale (what you have to know about to talk about this subject with any semblance of credibility) was acquired in the Environmental Studies program at Northland College back in the early 70s. Meaning he knows nothing as he has neither the mathematical background or even the statistics background to judge almost anything. His degree is like a survey course of gardening and lightweight forestry.
Yeah, we moved to NV after I got laid off/retired in ‘11 thinking eh, pretty conservative. DOH! Guess what happens in vegas screws the rest of us.
Unfortunately, more Californians. I read an article recently that said 27% of new residents are from the land of fruits and nuts.
And, they get very uppity when the natives make any wise cracks about Californians bringing their "culture" with them.
The Democrats are making a big push in ID. I see evidence of them everywhere - parades, fairs, in town.
There was this a couple days ago, too. This only passed because of strong Democrat support
PANEL HEARS OVERWHELMING OPPOSITION TO MEDICAID WORK REQUIREMENTS, March 9, 2019 by Cheyenna McCurry.It's a clear case of the Democrats saying "We don't care what it costs and we don't care how we pay for it -- it's the morally and ethically right thing to do."Dozens of Idahoans attended a hearing on the bill, with more than 50 testifying in opposition to the proposal.
During the three-hour hearing, just one person spoke in favor of the proposal — Fred Birnbaum, a lobbyist with the Idaho Freedom Foundation, a group that earlier this year lost a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Medicaid voter initiative.
Oh no. It’s all those potatoes grown there.
Ban potatoes.
Yes, they’re going to vote for everyone to have a purple unicorn, & they don’t care what it takes to get it. We’re being Californicated.
I keep telling people that no place is safe. You can’t run and hide from it. They dont believe me. Just had the conversation with one of hubbys friends the other day. Shrug
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