Once again, Kansas politicians display their stupidity

Once again the State of Kansas, USA, has show a remarkable ability to think and act like they just evolved from Apes. Republicans in the Senate voted their pocket books and gave into all those who make money burning coal. The sold their votes for short term gain, just as nearly all major scientist are finding alarming problems caused by greenhouse gasses, (C02) and the burning of fossil fuels. The decision of the Kansas Senate is obvious = “piss on the environment, we do what sells!)


This from The Wichita Eagle:
“Senate votes to override coal veto
BY DAVID KLEPPER
Kansas City Star
Senate roll call on overriding Sebelius veto on coal
Read House Substitute for Senate Bill 148
TOPEKA - Kansas lawmakers mounted new efforts to allow a western Kansas power plant expansion Thursday, a final push to resurrect the project before the legislative clock runs out.
Both the House and Senate endorsed new bills to authorize Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to build its two new coal-fired generators. The Senate also successfully voted to override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' veto of an earlier, similar bill. Both votes were 32-7.
What remains unclear, however, is whether the House can muster the two-thirds majority required to withstand a veto. The vote Thursday was five votes short.
Today may tell the tale: The House is set to hold a final vote, and House Speaker Melvin Neufeld, R-Ingalls, said he expects to have the votes to override a veto. "Unless somebody has lied to me," he said.
A majority of lawmakers hope to reverse a regulator's rejection of the expansion with legislation stripping his power. Time is running out, however. Lawmakers are expected to leave Topeka today for a three-week break before a brief wrap-up session next month.”

Just one example of research that shows the damage this contributes to is from National Geographic:


The Planet Is Heating Up—and Fast
Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.


One July morning I went up the Stubai Glacier with glaciologist Andrea Fischer and her team of students from the University of Innsbruck. They were there to give the glacier its weekly checkup, measuring how much it had melted under the various types of protective fabric—large squares of wool, hemp, plastic, and combinations of these that lay in rows across the slushy ice.
One experimental square, made of plastic, had dropped almost a foot in a week. "It's quite normal that glaciers are gaining or losing mass," Fischer said. What's not normal, say climatologists, is how fast it's happening today. Fischer and her students made note of which material had slowed the melting most effectively. Various materials, including a new white fleece, had slowed the melting to an impressive two inches.

March 26, 2008—A section of Antarctic ice seven times the size of Manhattan has broken away from a large ice shelf. Scientists say it is a sign of continued global warming.
Humans play a part:

By all accounts it has changed significantly in the past 150 years.
Walking through the various labs filled with cylinders of standardized gas mixtures, absolute manometers, and gas chromatographs, Tans offers up a short history of atmospheric monitoring. In the late 1950s a researcher named Charles Keeling began measuring CO2 in the atmosphere above Hawaii's 13,679-foot (4,169-meter) Mauna Loa. The first thing that caught Keeling's eye was how CO2 level rose and fell seasonally. That made sense since, during spring and summer, plants take in CO2 during photosynthesis and produce oxygen in the atmosphere. In the fall and winter, when plants decay, they release greater quantities of CO2 through respiration and decay. Keeling's vacillating seasonal curve became famous as a visual representation of the Earth "breathing."
Something else about the way the Earth was breathing attracted Keeling's attention. He watched as CO2 level not only fluctuated seasonally, but also rose year after year. Carbon dioxide level has climbed from about 315 parts per million from Keeling's first readings in 1958 to more than 375 ppm today. A primary source for this rise is indisputable: humans' prodigious burning of carbon-laden fossil fuels for their factories, homes, and cars.

Anything for a buck!

No stopping the greenhouse gasses.

The polar ice caps, mountain tops and glaziers are melting at an alarming rate.