Bill Requires Proof Climate Change Initiatives are Cost-Effective - KCPW

(KCPW News) A bill that would require proof that climate change initiatives are cost-effective before enacting them has already cleared the Utah House of Representatives, and is now moving to the Senate floor. Sponsor Rep. Roger Barrus is the chairman of the Utah House committee that deals with environmental issues, and a vocal critic of Governor Huntsman's decision to sign Utah onto the Western Climate Initiative. Barrus said the bill would prohibit decisions like that in the future, and that it sends a clear sign to the new presidential administration.

"All I'm saying is that in the state of Utah," Barrus said, "we just don't lay down and let them roll over us."

Transcript - Ben Stein on Dangers of Cap and Trade - Glenn Beck

STEIN: The second thing is the European system of cap and trade has not worked well at all. It has barely limited carbon at all because they gave so many exemptions to favored local industries that burn coal throughout the continent. There's no evidence that it works well. There is an idea of a carbon tax which would just impose a straight tax on burning carbon. I don't think that's a fabulous idea either but it does involve this Enron-like business of trading that would be involved in cap and trade.

BECK: Enron was the biggest promoter of cap and trade.

STEIN: Right, exactly.

BECK: Enron had more people on Capitol Hill because they knew they could make money hand over fist just in dealing with carbon credits.

STEIN: Right.

BECK: It's a scam! And you know what?

STEIN: It is sort of a scam, yes.

BECK: Who is — sort of a scam?

STEIN: It's — well, it's a scam.

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BECK: Yes. All right. We're just trading our freedom for an invisible gas.

STEIN: Yes, that is — in fact, we are trading our freedom for an extremely elusive ideal of climate perfection, which has never existed.

BECK: Yes, I know.

STEIN: And the fact that global warming is caused by man is not in any way proved.