Your tuition dollars at work — brainwashed college students
“A Utah Senate committee endorsed a resolution Friday asking federal regulators to throttle back on greenhouse-gas controls until climate change is proven.
In a 4-2 vote over the objections of critics — including … a large contingent of university students — the Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee approved Rep. Kerry Gibson’s nonbinding measure.
It calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to freeze efforts to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions until completion of “a full and independent investigation” of climate-change science.
The resolution — which previously cleared the House 56-17 … — now goes to the full Senate. …
Several dozen Utah college students gathered at the Capitol on Friday to oppose the resolution …
Jillian Edmunds, a student at Westminster College, compared scientists who doubt man-made climate change to historians who don’t believe in the Holocaust, while University of Utah student Derek Snarr, blasted the committee for ignoring experts. …
Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, applauded the students’ “passion,” but suggested they may change their minds in the next few years. Sen. Dennis Stowell, R-Parowan, said that students who were serious about the issue would be willing to cut college funding to pay for it.” “Bill to freeze greenhouse-gas controls clears another hurdle in Utah Legislature“