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Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change
cowtamer writes "The Utah State Assembly has passed a resolution decrying climate change alarmists and urging '...the United States Environmental Protection Agency to immediately halt its carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs and withdraw its "Endangerment Finding" and related regulations until a full and independent investigation of climate data and global warming science can be substantiated.' Here is the full text of H.J.R 12." The resolution has no force of law. The Guardian article includes juicy tidbits from its original, far more colorful, version.
Your post summarizes all that i hate when it comes to enviromental drama.
Suddenly every crackpot shows their professsional opinion by cooking up their "even if A and B we still should C because D" reasons that are factually so wrong that it makes the bible look good.
Lets start with the effects of CO2 on asthma: which are none, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere will remain approximately the same, and co2 isn't known to make astmha worse, which brings us to the next point. The oxygen content of the atmosphere is approximately 21%, the amospheric percentage of CO2 is 0.0387%. Even if we were to increase atmospheric CO2 ten times you'd still be exhaling out air with a further ten times higher co2 content. The current manmade increase of co2 is something along the line of 20-50%. As far as any mammalian respiratory system is concerned there have been no change whatsoever when it comes to co2 in the atmosphere. But apparently you think this is a problem so big that it's worth destroying or severely crippling the global economy to prevent it.
If you worry about asthmatics then i suggest you support reducing "ordinary" pollution, something a lot easier to do as you just need to install particle filters and get the combustion efficiency up, whereas for a co2 reduction you simply can't do the combustion at all.
Mormons have not openly practiced polygamy since the 1800s.
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