February 12, 2008 07:50 PM UTC

Lundberg Declares Climate Change "Junk Science"

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Denver Post reports:

A state lawmaker said Monday that the research underlying Gov. Bill Ritter’s Climate Action Plan is flawed.

“We can’t lose sight of the fact that it’s predicated on junk science,” Rep. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, said.

Lundberg said it has not been settled scientifically that manmade carbon-dioxide emissions contribute to global warming.

Jim Martin, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and one of the plan’s authors, said the carbon dioxide/global warming connection is widely accepted as scientific fact.

“You could have a convention of all the scientists who dispute climate change in a relatively small phone booth,” he said.

Lundberg’s comment came at a presentation to a handful of Republican lawmakers sponsored by the Independence Institute, a conservative Golden-based think tank. At the presentation, the group released a report assailing Ritter’s plan…

We’re a little busy today, so we’ll let you take care of the evisceration.