ERIC ELIASON TO ROB BISHOP: WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?
United Utah Party candidate questions Rob Bishop’s election-year interest in bipartisanship
Rep. Rob Bishop is teaming up with his Democratic counterpart on the House Natural Resources Committee to earmark $5.2 billion dollars to upgrade the infrastructure in our national parks.
“As Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Rob Bishop has been responsible for an enormous $12 billion backlog in national parks maintenance,” said Eric Eliason, the United Utah Party candidate challenging Bishop. “Now in an election year, being challenged on public lands, he is suddenly trying to be the hero with this funding. That is like neglecting your wife until she threatens to leave. We all know that funding maintenance is less costly than funding repairs.”
Eliason, who the Salt Lake Tribune has called Bishop’s “only real competition in the 1st Congressional District race,” identified a political motive in Rep. Bishop’s newfound interest in bipartisanship and funding the national parks.
“Rob has a real challenge this time around, so he suddenly needs to deliver results,” Eliason said.
According to the latest FEC filings, Eric Eliason has raised $232,339 and has $194,503 cash on hand, making him the most competitive opponent to incumbent Rob Bishop. Joel Searby, independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin’s campaign manager, has also joined Eliason’s campaign as a senior consultant.
For more information, visit eliasonforcongress.com.
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Global warming not our most pressing concern
By Tom Harris
In an interview with the Vatican News service published on July 4, former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore said, “the climate crisis is now the biggest existential challenge humanity has ever faced.”
We often hear that man-made climate change is our greatest threat. But according to the latest Gallup poll, very few people in the United States actually believe it is. And the United Nations’ own polling reveals that, across the world, respondents rate climate change last among issues they would like the UN and governments to focus on.
In telephone interviews conducted from July 1 – 11, 2018 with a random sample of 1,033 adults, ages 18+, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, Gallup News Service asked, “What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?” The question was ‘open ended’ in that any answer was accepted.
According to the respondents, the top problems facing America were “Immigration/Illegal aliens” (22%) and “Dissatisfaction with government/Poor leadership” (19%). Two percent of respondents cited “Environment/Pollution.” This included those who said that climate change was the most important problem facing the country. Considering that many topics—ocean pollution, species at risk, and toxic waste, to name just a few—would also fall into the “Environment/Pollution” category, the fraction of Americans who labeled climate change as the nation’s most serious problem must have been very small indeed.
The UN’s own survey confirms that this trend is even more prominent internationally. After polling 9.7 million people from 194 countries, the UN’s My World global survey finds that “action taken on climate change” rates last out of the 16 suggested priorities for the agency. This, despite the fact that on the survey website, the UN lists climate change action as the first choice given respondents. Access to reliable energy, better healthcare, government honesty, a good education, etc., are apparently far greater concerns to people across the world.
This should not be a surprise. In contrast to vitally important issues people must deal with on a daily basis, concerns about man-made climate change are based merely on a theoretical hypothesis, not what is happening now or even in the recent past. After all, even NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies asserts that the Global Annual Mean Surface Air Temperature Change from 1880 to 2017 is only just over one degree Celsius despite a reputed 40% rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) content. And it is well known that the impact of further CO2 rise diminishes as the concentration increases.
It is not known whether the rate of sea level rise has increased or not. However, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s U.S. state-wide extreme weather records database, probably the best of its kind in the world, there has been no increase in extreme weather. So, the primary rationale for “action taken on climate change” through expensive restrictions to CO2 emissions is merely the possibility of dangerous climate change in the future. And this is based on computer models of future climate states, models that have failed to forecast what has actually happened.
Yet there is nothing hypothetical about the issues Americans, and indeed, people across the world, list as their top priorities. Problems with immigration and government are happening right now in America. And the issues rated highest in developing countries such as Nigeria, for example (2,735,062 Nigerians voted in the UN POLL)—access to a good education, better healthcare, better job opportunities, better transportation and roads, political freedom, affordable and nutritious food, etc.—are immediate concerns today, as well. They understand that we have real problems to solve.
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