Doherty: new scientific data justifies repealing global warming response act
PolitickerNJ
18 Agosto 2008
Urges state
to hold off on damaging new regulations as climate change theories clash
Responding
to various new scientific reports questioning the concept of global warming,
Assemblyman Michael Doherty today called on Governor Corzine to hold off on
proposing any new regulations associated with the state’s Global Warming
Response Act and urged the Legislature to repeal that act when it returns to
legislative business after Labor Day.
“There are
many credible members of the scientific community who have questioned the
theory of global warming, and now we have some scientists actually suggesting
the earth’s temperatures may be entering a period of dramatic cooling,” said
Doherty, R-Warren and Hunterdon. “With this growing level of scientific
uncertainty, it makes no sense to enact a new set of economically damaging
regulations prompted by the global warming hysteria of recent years.”
The Global
Warming Response Act was signed last year by Corzine, which requires the state
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.
The law required the state Department of Environmental Protection to release a
report detailing how the state would meet the goals, with recommendations now
expected to be issued this fall.
According
to recent news reports, a top observatory that has been measuring sun spot
activity predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the
next 20 years as solar activity slows and the planet drastically cools down.
They suggest this could potentially herald the onset of a new ice age.
Following the end of the sun’s most active period in over 11,000 years, the
last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998
leveled out and are now decreasing.
Earlier
this year, John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, stated that
manmade global warming is “the greatest scam in history,” adding, “I am amazed,
appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam.” Coleman said
the theory of global warming is based on fraudulent science.
“New
Jersey’s tax and regulatory climate is already chasing jobs from this state
left and right and these new regulations will make matters worse,” Doherty
said. “Rather than conforming our policies to questionable scientific theories,
we should be looking at the concrete economic indicators that show our state’s
economy is in trouble. And we should be taking steps to help people who are
losing jobs and being forced out of their homes by this state’s anti-economic
growth agenda – not making matters worse.”
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