Bill Text: GA HR1865 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Environmental Protection Agency; cease carbon dioxide reduction policies; urge

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-31 - House Second Readers [HR1865 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-HR1865-Introduced.html

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10 LC 34 2530

House Resolution 1865

By: Representatives Smith of the 113th, Roberts of the 154th, Keen of the 179th, and May of the 111th

A RESOLUTION

Urging the Environmental Protection Agency to cease its carbon dioxide reduction policies until climate data and global warming science are substantiated; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, proposed cap and trade legislation before the United States Congress, together with potential state actions to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2), would result in significantly higher energy costs to American consumers, business, and industry; and

WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "Endangerment Finding" and proposed action to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act is based on questionable climate data and would place significant regulatory and financial burdens on all sectors of the nation's economy at a time when the nation's unemployment rate exceeds 10 percent; and

WHEREAS, global temperatures have been level and declining in some areas over the
past 12 years; and

WHEREAS, the "hockey stick" global warming assertion has been discredited and climate change alarmists' carbon dioxide related global warming hypothesis is unable to account for the current downturn in global temperatures; and

WHEREAS, there is a statistically more direct correlation between twentieth century temperature rise and chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) in the atmosphere than CO2; and

WHEREAS, outlawed and largely phased out by 1978, in the year 2000 CFC's began to
decline at approximately the same time as global temperatures began to decline; and

WHEREAS, e-mails and other communications between climate researchers around the globe, referred to as "Climategate," indicate a well-organized and ongoing effort to manipulate global temperature data in order to produce a global warming outcome; and
WHEREAS, there has been a concerted effort by climate change alarmists to marginalize those in the scientific community who are skeptical of global warming by manipulating or pressuring peer-reviewed publications to keep contrary or competing scientific viewpoints and findings on global warming from being reviewed and published; and

WHEREAS, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a blend of government officials and scientists, does no independent climate research but relies on global climate researchers; and

WHEREAS, Earth's climate is constantly changing with recent warming potentially an indication of a return to more normal temperatures following a prolonged cooling period from 1250 to 1860 called the "Little Ice Age"; and

WHEREAS, more than $7 billion annually in federal government grants may have influenced the climate research focus and findings that have produced a "scientific consensus" at research institutions and universities; and

WHEREAS, the recently completed Copenhagen climate change summit resulted in little agreement, especially among growing CO2 emitting nations like China and India, and called on the United States to pay billions of dollars to developing countries to reduce CO2 emissions at a time when the United States' national debt will exceed $12 trillion; and

WHEREAS, the United States Department of Agriculture estimates that current legislation providing agriculture offsets and carbon credits to reduce CO2 emissions would result in tree planting on 59 million acres of crop and pasture land, damaging America's food security and rural communities; and

WHEREAS, according to the World Health Organization, 1.6 billion people do not have adequate food and clean water; and

WHEREAS, global governance related to global warming and reduction of CO2 would
ultimately lock billions of human beings into long-term poverty.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA that this body urges 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.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit appropriate copies of this resolution to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and to the members of Georgia's congressional delegation.