ALEC's Resolution on Climate Change Alarmed by a flurry of state legislative activity addressing the serious problem of global warming, the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) drafted model legislation entitled "State Responses to Kyoto Climate Change Protocol" in 1998 and a "General Resolution on Climate Change" in July 2003. The similar model bills both prohibit "the proposal or promulgation of state regulations intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, prior to [federal] ratification of the Kyoto climate change protocol... and enactment of implementing legislation."
In support of its global warming bills, ALEC makes unsubstantiated (and disproved) claims, including that the Kyoto Protocol unfairly burdens developed countries and that enactment of policies to meet emissions reduction targets would harm the economy. With regard to economic repercussions, two comprehensive U.S. government analyses predicted the impact of energy efficiency and renewable energy policies on the economy to be minimal or positive. Moreover, a number of non-governmental studies have reported that the production of energy from renewable sources employs more people than that from coal. ALEC's two global warming bills use bad science, misleading and selective reporting, and a special interest bias to block states from taking action on one of the most important environmental issues today. In the words of the National Academy of Sciences, climate change is real, in large part due to human activities, and likely to have "large, abrupt, and unwelcome" effects. ALEC should stop contributing to the problem with its own hot air. Mike Neuman "It is incumbent on us here today to so act throughout our lives as to leave our children a heritage for which we will receive their blessings and not their curses". - President Theodore Roosevelt - from a speech he gave in Dickinson, North Dakota, July 4, 1886 ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
