Posted on 01/16/2002 9:11:43 PM PST by anymouse
To: CSE Members and friends
From: Carol Jones
Re: Projected 35 Billion charged to taxpayers if Kyoto implemented in Texas
Action Item:
1. If you have not sent your electronic letter to Commissioner Huston at the TNRCC, please do so by clicking here
We believe that Commissioner Marquez at the TNRCC needs to hear from you too. Please call his office at 512-239-5515 and just tell the person who answers the phone that you are opposed to implementing staff recommendations on the global warming petition. You may want to review the message points below but also be sure to tell them that IF GLOBAL warming is real, implementing strategies in Texas will do absolutely nothing to impact that yet it would cost Texas taxpayers $35 BILLION. ASK FOR A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS!
See CSE's article on the attempt to implement Kyoto in Texas
See also an excellent article by Dr. Green at the Reason Foundation
2. Please attend the Friday (1-18-02) TNRCC meeting. Please contact me at 830-798-1134 or e-mail me at . Those attending will likely have opportunity to speak, if desired.
3. Call your state legislator and state senator. Tell them to weigh in and oppose this incremental implementation of a treaty that both Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate unanimously rejected.
4. Call the Governor's office and say you oppose this backdoor implementation of a treaty the US Senate rejected. Citizens' Opinion Hotline: 800-252-9600
Tuesday the TNRCC posted staff recommendations take some steps in the direction of implementation of the non-ratified Kyoto Protocol in Texas. This initiative is based on arguable science and will cost taxpayers 35 BILLION DOLLARS - all to appease radical environmentalists whose agenda is political, not environmental. And make no mistake - this will not appease them - as always they will be back for more and more until they get Kyoto enacted nation wide through state legislation.
Date, Time and Place
Mark your calendars for Friday, January 18th.
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
9:30 a.m.
Room 201S, Building E
12100 Park 35 Circle
Austin, TX (Park 35 Circle is off I-35 North)
For a map, click here
Background
In August of last year (during the heat of the Presidential election) some radical environmental groups petitioned the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission (TNRCC) to implement measures to reduce CO2 to 7% below 1990 level in Texas - precisely what was called for in the so-called Kyoto Protocol, a global warming treaty that the US Senate reject 95-0.
The TNRCC decided to study the issue for a year and the study was released this week.
On January 18th the TNRCC staff will present the study and their recommendations to the three TNRCC commissioners for review.
Texas has no business implementing a treaty that was not constitutionally ratified by the Senate and which no other developed country has adopted.
In addition, the TNRCC should not have even spend taxpayer dollars to study an issue for implementation that has been unanimously rejected by the Senate - much less spending possibly billions more taxpayer dollars to implement it.
When you call you may find these message points useful:
Message points:
1. The Global Warming treaty implementation in Texas would make Texas the only state to implement the measures of the global warming treaty.
2. Implementation results in an energy tax in Texas which no other state will have assessed and would put us at significant economic disadvantage.
3. The science does not support the need for draconian action…or any action!
4. Studies have shown that Kyoto would be devastating to the Texas economy.
5. This is a "back door implementation plan" by those who are working to end run the US Senate.
6. There should be No Implementation without Constitutional Ratification.
Additional points: Radical Environmentalists Fudge on Facts - but what else is new?
1. The petitioners would have you believe a reduction of Greenhouse Gas emissions in Texas will make a marked difference. This is not true. If Texas contributes 1/7th of the U.S. manmade CO2 - as the petitioners claim - this is less than 1/10th of 1% of the global total manmade CO2 emissions. This percentage of is already decreasing as Texas emissions decrease and developing nations with no restrictions increase their emissions.
2. The petitioners claim a buildup of gases in the atmosphere is causing the Earth to warm. There are many scientists who dispute that global warming is taking place at all. There has been no statistically meaningful long-term change in statewide summer or winter temperatures in Texas during the last 100 years.
3. The petitioners state "the United States is required to reduce emissions of carbon by 7 percent below 1990 levels during the period from 2008 to 2012." This misleading statement implies the United States must comply with the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. In fact, the Bush administration has refused to submit the treaty to the Senate for ratification and - even more telling - senators have voted 95-0 to oppose the treaty.
Remember writing a letter to TNRCC Commissioner Huston is easy. Just click here:
Please call the TNRCC Commissioners and the Governor's office and voice your opposition to implementation of Kyoto without ratification by the Senate and PLEASE, Please let us know what they tell you by emailing me e-mail me at .
You might just survive long enough to offer an appology for your insult.
Up around the pan-handle ... cattle are being slautered and UN is investigating.
Hope you like getting a ticket for driving 56 mph anywhere in Texas. They already voted to drop the speed limit down to 55 mph in Harris County (Houston) and in 7 surrounding rural counties.
I bet a few of these commissioners are hold-overs from Ma Richards corrupt administration, plus some RINOs that Bush included to pacify the Austin liberals.
Freedom isn't free, it sometimes requires you to get up off the couch and do something to protect it. /sarcasm
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