Panel leading charge against a warmer state:
Calling global warming "a huge and defining issue of our time," Gov. Tim Pawlenty kicked off Thursday's meeting of a group that will help establish climate-protection strategies that could reshape daily life in Minnesota for the next several decades.
The Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group, made up of more than 50 leaders from the state's major businesses, utilities, environmental groups and churches, will assemble a salad of strategies designed to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
At its meeting in St. Paul on Thursday, the group discussed ways to get there, including ideas as broad as setting up a carbon trading market, reducing speed limits and increasing grassland and forest.
They also talked about specific measures such as streamlining trash pickup in St. Paul to reduce the number of garbage trucks in city alleys.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. This notion that states should be leading the charge on fighting global warming is absurd. Why not just build a huge dome over the entire state so that we have our own climate which we can control and effect at our own discretion?
And what the heck do churches have to do with this? Please God, reduce our CO2 emissions? Amen? More later if time and temperament (mine, not the planet's) allows.
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