State Rep. Jim Gooch - An embarassment to the Dem Party! Read this

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Legislators hear global warming disputed // Herald Leader - Nov. 15, 2007
Called a myth of Gore, U.N., media -- By John Cheves

FRANKFORT --Global warming is a myth concocted by former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations, Hollywood and the news media, Kentucky lawmakers were told yesterday.

The interim joint Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to dispute the idea that the Earth is warming, at least in part because of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere produced by industrial activity.

Chairman Jim Gooch, D-Providence, a longtime ally of the coal industry, said he purposefully did not invite anyone who believes in global warming to testify.

"You can only hear that the sky is falling so many times," said Gooch, whose post makes him the House Democrats' chief environmental strategist. "We hear it every day from the news media, from the colleges, from Hollywood."

Neither of Gooch's invited panelists was a scientist.

http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/231346.html

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1. Here's where Gov. Elect Beshear is faced with a dichotomy

He believes that global warming is real and something needs to be done about it but he has the backing of the coal industry and sees no problem with mountain top removal. At some point, he's really going to have to come down on one side or the other.