Some Nebraska Politicians Were Trying To Block This Climate Data From Entering The State Senate
Some Nebraska Politicians Were Trying To Block This Climate Data From Entering The State Senate
Chelsea Harvey
27 minutes ago
Nebraska state Sen. Ken Haar (D) introduced a bill last year calling for a study of projected climate change impacts in the state that would be presented to the legislature.
But the bill took an unexpected detour when state Sen. Beau McCoy (R) introduced an amendment limiting the study to "cyclical" climate causes, like volcanic eruptions or solar variations.
In short, climate scientists funded to do the research by the state and for the state legislature to use in making climate-related decisions would not be permitted to consider human activity (the biggest driving factor of climate change) in their reports.
Typically, climate scientists that blame global warming on these "cyclical" causes are climate deniers that don't believe in human-caused climate change. Limiting the study to cyclical causes would bias the report against the actual truth of climate change — that it's human-caused. And if it had gone through, would have funded a report that could only be called climate denial.
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/nebraska-climate-study-not-funded-by-state-2014-11#ixzz3KmhPVh00
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