Bravo, Rep. Mike Noel

Noel to Utah climate-change adviser: 'You drank the Kool-Aid' - Salt Lake Tribune

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is looking to lawmakers to help position Utah on climate change. Trouble is, some them think the issue is nonsense.
For instance, when one of the governor's advisers started explaining this week why Utah is part of a regional carbon cap-and-trade program, Rep. Mike Noel fired back: "So, you drank the Kool-Aid, too."
The Kanab Republican, a proponent of nuclear power, also told a fellow legislator: "You understand, when you are breathing, you are polluting. I don't think it's polluting to breathe, that's my point."
Other members of the Legislature's Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee suggested it was wrongheaded to try cutting climate pollution because it would hurt Utah's economy and consumers.
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Sen. Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City, urged his colleagues not to be so tough on Huntsman's representatives. He described a summer meeting with a European energy minister who said that climate-change doubters there would be laughed out of office.
"This is the reality," he said, "This is not something people are just talking about."