NEW SERIES: Number of Paid Full-Time-Equivalent (FTE) Staff in U.S. Public Libraries (U.S., Alabama-California)

 Note:  Only total FTE paid public library staff provided in 1990 IMLS report.

Source:  Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries in the United States Survey (1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2011)

Summary Table:  Percentage change in FTE staff by category

Iowa County WI: Public Access Internet Computers (1999-2013) and Print Serial Subscriptions (1996-2013)

2010 population:  23,687

Public libraries in Iowa County

• Barneveld Public Library
• Cobb Public Library
• Dodgeville Public Library
• Mineral Point Public Library

This line-graph series is the result of my wondering if there's any pattern to the number of print serial subscriptions held by public libraries in relation to the increasing number of public access Internet computers provided by public libraries since 1999. (Earliest year for which Wisconsin statistics are available.)

Note: The 1996, 1997, 1998 Wisconsin public library annual reports asked for the following information: Libraries with Internet access. (Answered yes or no.) Libraries with electronic services. (Answered yes or no.) In 1999, public libraries reported the number of public access Internet computers for the first time in the annual report.

Source:  Wisconsin Public Library Service Data

Percentage change from peak year.  +9.1%.

Southwest Wisconsin Library System

Other posts in series

(with percentage change in print serial subscriptions from peak year)

Adams County, -35.6%.  (11/12/2014)

Ashland County, -1.3%.  (11/13/2014)

Barron County, -18.5%.  (11/14/2014)

Bayfield County,+106%.  (11/15/2014)

Brown County, -22%.   (11/16/2014)
Buffalo County, -18%.  (11/17/2014)
Burnett County, -4.4%.  (11/18/2014)
Calumet County, -23.1%.  (11/19/2014)
Chippewa County, -37.6%.  (11/20/2014)
Clark County, -9.0%.  (11/21/2014)
Columbia County, -11.3%.  (11/22/2014)
Crawford County, -3.6%.  (11/23/2014)
Dane County, -16.1%.  (11/24/2014)
Dodge County, -21.2%.  (11/25/2014)
Door County, -37.1%.  (11/26/2014)
Douglas County, -19.1%.  (11/27/2014)
Dunn County, -21.2%.  (11/28/2014)
Eau Claire County, -39.5%.  (11/29/2014)
Florence County, +429%.  (11/30/2014)
Fond du Lac County, -32.5%.  (12/1/2014)
Forest County, -20.8%.  (12/2/2014)
Grant County, NA.  (12/3/2014)
Green County, -1.6%.  (12/4/2014)
Green Lake County, -11.0% . (12/5/2014)
Iowa County, +9.1%.  (12/6/2014)

Public Library Circulation and Circulation per Capita: Wyoming (1990-2011)

The last in a series.

Source:  Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries in the United States Survey (1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2011)

For more information:
Wyoming State Library.  Wyoming Library Statistics.
Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA):  Wyoming.

Wyoming's state library agency is in the "Other Agencies" category.  It is a division of the Department of Administration and Information.

Top 5 states, percentage increase in library circulation (1990-2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Nevada 288%
2. Colorado 205%
3. Utah 204%
4. Oregon 193%
5. Idaho 157%

Bottom 5 states, percentage increase in library circulation (1990-2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. West Virginia -8.9%
2. Mississippi 10.2%
3. Hawaii 11.8% 
4. Louisiana 15.9%
5. Alabama 28.1%

Top 5 states, per capita library circulation (2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Oregon 17.2
2. Ohio 16.6
3. Indiana 13.6
4. Colorado 13.0
5. Washington 12.9

 Bottom 5 states, per capita library circulation (2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Mississippi 2.9 
2. West Virginia 4.0
3. Tennessee 4.1
4. Louisiana 4.41
5. Alabama 4.42

Related posts:  State, % circulation increase 1990-2011.
Alabama, 28.1%.  (10/18/2014) 
Alaska, 48.3%.  (10/19/2014)
Arizona, 139%.  (10/20/2014)
Arkansas, 70.1%.  (10/21/2014)
California, 66.9%.  (10/22/2014)
Colorado, 205%.  (10/23/2014)
Connecticut, 46.3%.  (10/24/2014)
Delaware, 104%.    (10/25/2014)
Florida, 142%.  (10/26/2014)
Georgia, 87.0%.  (10/27/2014)
Hawaii, 11.8%.  (10/28/2014)
Idaho, 157%.  (10/29/2014)
Illinois, 105%.  (10/30/2014)
Indiana, 75.6%.  (10/31/2014)
Iowa, 30.8%.  (11/1/2014)
Kansas, 62.7%.  (11/2/2014)
Kentucky, 69.5%.  (11/3/2014)
Louisiana, 15.9%.  (11/4/2014)
Maine, 40.5%.   (11/5/2014)
Maryland, 30.9%.  (11/6/2014)
Massachusetts, 75.3%.  (11/7/2014)
Michigan, 101%.  (11/8/2014)
Minnesota, 49.6%  (11/9/2014)
Mississippi, 10.2%.  (11/10/2014)
Missouri, 78.2%.  (11/11/2014)
Montana, 84.3%.  (11/12/2014)
Nebraska, 89.4%.  (11/13/2014)
Nevada, 288%.  (11/14/2015)
New Hampshire, 59%.  (11/15/2014)
New Jersey, 58.6%.  (11/16/2014)
New Mexico, 42.3%.  (11/17/2014
New York, 43.7%.  (11/18/2014)
North Carolina, 75.1%.  (11/19/2014)
North Dakota, 38.9%.  (11/20/2014)
Ohio, 71/7%.  (11/21/2014)
Oklahoma, 46%.  (11/22/2014)
Oregon, 193%.  (11/23/2014)
Pennsylvania, 48/5%.  (11/24/2014)
Rhode Island, 37.6%.  (11/25/2014)
South Carolina 135%,  (11/26/2014)
South Dakota, 62.6%.  (11/27/2014)
Tennessee, 55.0%.  (11/28/2014)
Texas, 85.6%.  (11/29/2014)
Utah, 204%.  (11/30/2014)
Vermont, 61.1%.  (12/1/2014)
Virginia, 89.3%.  (12/2/2014)
Washington, 95.3%.  (12/3/2014)
West Virginia, -8.9%.  (12/4/2014)
Wisconsin,  67.8%.  (12/5/2014)
Wyoming, 31.0%.  (12/6/2014)

Possible River of the Year and Beaty Middle School 2008

River of the Year? (Warren Times Observer, 11/28/2014) 

On the banks of Conewango

Just above the dam.

Stands the Beaty Junior High School

Stately and so grand.

True to Beaty we will ever

loudly sing her praise. 

Hail to Beaty Junior High School,

Hail to thee always. 

All photos by Retiring Guy

As Mom notes, it's a "Best Recipe"

A reminder to herself that it was her best chocolate chip cookie recipe.

As far as I'm concerned, it's the best cookie recipe ever.

NOTE: I use butter instead of oleo. 1 teaspoon vanilla.   2 t. baking soda + 2 t. salt.

What about directions?  Blend 1st 6 ingredients.  Add next 5.

Reading the Tea Leaves: Scott Fitzgerald Waters Down Luther Olsen's Role as Senate Education Committee Chair

And indeed he can!

 Source of quote:  Star Tribune, 11/16/2013

Fitzgerald Announcement of 2015-16 Committee Appointments.  (News release, 12/4/2014)

The Senate Majority Leader reappoints Luther Olsen as chair of the Senate Committee on Education.   (Website to be updated.)  Olsen has been a member of the committee since 2005 and chair since 2011.

At the same time, he created a new committee -- Education Reform and Government Operations -- and appointed Paul Farrow as chair.  Farrow, a Pewaukee resident, represents the 33rd Senate District.

[Paul, I'm sure they would have used the 'Obamacare' designation.  Sounds to me like you're makin' stuff up as you go along.]

Sources

• Olsen quote.  2 Wisconsin lawmakers at core of Republican Party divide.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/2/2014)
• Farrow quote.  Concern that Common Core is 'cookie cutter'.  (WISN, 10/6/2013)

Sources

• Olsen quote.  Private-school vouchers need accountability.  (Green Bay Press Gazette, 11/30/2014)
• Farrow quote.  New school accountability bill will be early test of Walker, Republican agenda.  (Star Tribune, 11/16/2014)

It's the Principle of the Thing: Ozaukee County Towns Question Bookmobile Funding

 Eastern Shores Library System bookmobile schedule

Town wants bookmobile funding changed.  (Ozaukee Press, 12/3/2014)

The Town of Port Washington jumps into the discussion.

In Ozaukee County, the owner of a $250,000 home in a non-libraried area pays $9 annually for the bookmobile and the owner of a $100,000 home pays about $3.60 a year, according to Birtell. 

Melichar said the town was approached by Town of Cedarburg [can't get website to load] officials about the issue, noting that township pays about 40% of the county’s share of the bookmobile, which doesn’t stop there either. 

Last month, the Town of Cedarburg board approved a similar resolution asking the county to amend the library system’s 2016-2020 plan to have the bookmobile funded only by those communities served by the vehicle or, failing that, to discontinue bookmobile service in the county. 

Melichar said Town of Saukville officials are likely to take up a similar resolution.   The Town of Saukville also contributes about 10% of the county’s share of the bookmobile, he noted. 

The dollar amount in question isn’t significant, Didier conceded, but the principle is. He would feel better about funding the bookmobile if it stopped in the Town of Port, Didier added, but it doesn’t.

Eastern Shores operates 1 of 8 bookmobiles in the state of Wisconsin.

The others 7 providersare:

• Brown County Public Library
• Dane County Library Service
• Kenosha Public Library
• Kilbourn Public Library, Wisconsin Dells
• Milwaukee Public Library (?)
• Racine Public Library
• Shawano City-County Library

War of the Fossil Fuels on the Transportation Battlefield

Coal shipping cost increases to hit Wisconsin Power and Light customers. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/4/2014)

The utility and others in the Upper Midwest have been affected by slowed shipments of coal this year as railroads have shifted to ship more crude oil. 

Last summer, Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse warned that rail shipments were so behind schedule that it might not have enough coal to continue operating its Genoa power plant early next year. The rail company, BNSF, responded and stepped up shipments to Dairyland.

Minnesota grain farmers aren't happy either.  They, too, see railroads giving priority to oil shipments, at their expense.


Related post: 
The Trains Keep a Rollin' -- except if you want any coal delivered.  (7/29/2014)

Mama, don't let you babies grow up to be foul-mouthed losers

Tom Brady's profane rant more entertaining than damaging, by Jim Stingl. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/4/2014)

And it definitely felt good for us Packer fans to witness the full extent to which we had ruined Brady's day and sent the Patriots home as foul-mouthed losers. It's good to be reminded that even a guy paid $57 million and married to a supermodel isn't happy all the time.

Green Lake County WI: Public Access Internet Computers (1999-2013) and Print Serial Subscriptions (1996-2013)

2010 population:  19,051

Public libraries in Green Lake County

• Berlin Public Library
• Caestecker Public Library, Green Lake
• Mill Pond Public Library, Kingston
• Markesan Public Library
• Princeton Public Library

This line-graph series is the result of my wondering if there's any pattern to the number of print serial subscriptions held by public libraries in relation to the increasing number of public access Internet computers provided by public libraries since 1999. (Earliest year for which Wisconsin statistics are available.)

Note: The 1996, 1997, 1998 Wisconsin public library annual reports asked for the following information: Libraries with Internet access. (Answered yes or no.) Libraries with electronic services. (Answered yes or no.) In 1999, public libraries reported the number of public access Internet computers for the first time in the annual report.

Source:  Wisconsin Public Library Service Data

Percentage change from peak year.  -11.0%.

 Winnefox Library System

Other posts in series

(with percentage change in print serial subscriptions from peak year)

Adams County, -35.6%.  (11/12/2014)

Ashland County, -1.3%.  (11/13/2014)

Barron County, -18.5%.  (11/14/2014)

Bayfield County,+106%.  (11/15/2014)

Brown County, -22%.   (11/16/2014)
Buffalo County, -18%.  (11/17/2014)
Burnett County, -4.4%.  (11/18/2014)
Calumet County, -23.1%.  (11/19/2014)
Chippewa County, -37.6%.  (11/20/2014)
Clark County, -9.0%.  (11/21/2014)
Columbia County, -11.3%.  (11/22/2014)
Crawford County, -3.6%.  (11/23/2014)
Dane County, -16.1%.  (11/24/2014)
Dodge County, -21.2%.  (11/25/2014)
Door County, -37.1%.  (11/26/2014)
Douglas County, -19.1%.  (11/27/2014)
Dunn County, -21.2%.  (11/28/2014)
Eau Claire County, -39.5%.  (11/29/2014)
Florence County, +429%.  (11/30/2014)
Fond du Lac County, -32.5%.  (12/1/2014)
Forest County, -20.8%.  (12/2/2014)
Grant County, NA.  (12/3/2014)
Green County, -1.6%.  (12/4/2014)
Green Lake County, -11.0% . (12/5/2014)

Public Library Circulation and Circulation per Capita: Wisconsin (1990-2011)

Source:  Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries in the United States Survey (1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2011)

For more information:
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.  Wisconsin Public Library Service Data, 1996-2013.
Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA):   Wisconsin.

Wisconsin's state library agency, the Division for Libraries and Technology, is in the "Department of Education" category. 

Top 5 states, percentage increase in library circulation (1990-2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Nevada 288%
2. Colorado 205%
3. Utah 204%
4. Oregon 193%
5. Idaho 157%

Bottom 5 states, percentage increase in library circulation (1990-2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. West Virginia -8.9%
2. Mississippi 10.2%
3. Hawaii 11.8% 
4. Louisiana 15.9%
5. Alabama 28.1%

Top 5 states, per capita library circulation (2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Oregon 17.2
2. Ohio 16.6
3. Indiana 13.6
4. Colorado 13.0
5. Washington 12.9

 Bottom 5 states, per capita library circulation (2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Mississippi 2.9 
2. West Virginia 4.0
3. Tennessee 4.1
4. Louisiana 4.41
5. Alabama 4.42

Related posts:  State, % circulation increase 1990-2011.
Alabama, 28.1%.  (10/18/2014) 
Alaska, 48.3%.  (10/19/2014)
Arizona, 139%.  (10/20/2014)
Arkansas, 70.1%.  (10/21/2014)
California, 66.9%.  (10/22/2014)
Colorado, 205%.  (10/23/2014)
Connecticut, 46.3%.  (10/24/2014)
Delaware, 104%.    (10/25/2014)
Florida, 142%.  (10/26/2014)
Georgia, 87.0%.  (10/27/2014)
Hawaii, 11.8%.  (10/28/2014)
Idaho, 157%.  (10/29/2014)
Illinois, 105%.  (10/30/2014)
Indiana, 75.6%.  (10/31/2014)
Iowa, 30.8%.  (11/1/2014)
Kansas, 62.7%.  (11/2/2014)
Kentucky, 69.5%.  (11/3/2014)
Louisiana, 15.9%.  (11/4/2014)
Maine, 40.5%.   (11/5/2014)
Maryland, 30.9%.  (11/6/2014)
Massachusetts, 75.3%.  (11/7/2014)
Michigan, 101%.  (11/8/2014)
Minnesota, 49.6%  (11/9/2014)
Mississippi, 10.2%.  (11/10/2014)
Missouri, 78.2%.  (11/11/2014)
Montana, 84.3%.  (11/12/2014)
Nebraska, 89.4%.  (11/13/2014)
Nevada, 288%.  (11/14/2015)
New Hampshire, 59%.  (11/15/2014)
New Jersey, 58.6%.  (11/16/2014)
New Mexico, 42.3%.  (11/17/2014
New York, 43.7%.  (11/18/2014)
North Carolina, 75.1%.  (11/19/2014)
North Dakota, 38.9%.  (11/20/2014)
Ohio, 71/7%.  (11/21/2014)
Oklahoma, 46%.  (11/22/2014)
Oregon, 193%.  (11/23/2014)
Pennsylvania, 48/5%.  (11/24/2014)
Rhode Island, 37.6%.  (11/25/2014)
South Carolina 135%,  (11/26/2014)
South Dakota, 62.6%.  (11/27/2014)
Tennessee, 55.0%.  (11/28/2014)
Texas, 85.6%.  (11/29/2014)
Utah, 204%.  (11/30/2014)
Vermont, 61.1%.  (12/1/2014)
Virginia, 89.3%.  (12/2/2014)
Washington, 95.3%.  (12/3/2014)
West Virginia, -8.9%.  (12/4/2014)
Wisconsin,  67.8%.  (12/5/2014)

Robin Vos Dedicates This Song to Scott Fitzgerald

Shortly after Vos gives the signal to proceed.

 Capital Times, 12/4/2014

Related post:

Just a coincidence, I'm sure: Wisconsin Right to Work has a free-market suggestion for Robin Vos. (12/1/2014)

Of course Rep. Kapenga hasn't drafted a bill; it's already been done for him

Rep. Chris Kapenga to introduce right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin.  (Capital Times, 12/4/2014)

Why bother -- when the  

American Legislative Exchange Council 

does the drafting for you?!?!

It's the legislative route that Michigan took.

Michigan Passes "Right to Work" Containing Verbatim Language from ALEC Model Bill.  (The Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch, 12/11/2012)

Related posts:
Speaking of plagiarism: The Kapenga chronicles.  (9/22/2014)
Meet Chris Kapenga, ALEC's waterboy.  (2/18/2014)

Federal Appeals Court Decision Won't Deter Scott Walker

Court Strikes Down Drug Tests for Florida Welfare Applicants.  (The New York Times, 12/3/2014)

Scott Walker follows the Florida model

Eleven states have passed laws to mandate drug testing since 2011, but most of those differ from Florida’s because they require testing only if drug use is suspected. After the Florida Legislature approved its law, Georgia followed suit. A similar measure was ruled unconstitutional in 2003 by a Michigan Court of Appeals.

Walker must have looked at this map and told himself, I'm gonna need some of those Southern Republican primary voters when I run for President.
 

 Wisconsin State Journal

Related article

Carl Hiaasen offers to pay for Legislature drug tests.  (Tampa Tribune, 9/27/2011)

Rep. Walter Jones (R-North Carolina), House Cheerleader for Obama Impeachment

Pro-Impeachment Congressman: “12 Or 14” GOP Members Think Impeachment Is Possible.  BuzzFeed, 12/2/2014)

North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District

Jones was recently re-elected to serve an 11th term with 68% of the vote.

Jones seems to have a thing for the impeachment option.

Other impeachment nonsense posts:
Sore loser (former) Republican, "a bit of an eccentric", calls for Obama's impeachment.  (11/29/2014) 
Another doctor calls for Obama's impeachment.  (11/23/2014)
Founder of the conservative Edmund Burke Institute throws another log on the Obama impeachment fire.  (11/23/2014)
Rep Walter Jones professes his love for the Constitution.  (11/22/2014)
Republican Congressman from Colorado doesn't receive the I-word memo.  (11/21/2014)
Can you find the oxymoron?  (11/19/2014)
Impeachment quote of the day.  (11/18/2014)

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative David Jolly, Florida's 13th Congressional District

  Photo source:  U.S. Congress

Text source:  Tampa Bay Times

Jolly was elected to his first full term in the House with 48.5% of the vote.   He serves on the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

No Friend to the Environment dishonor roll.

Alabama Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives.   (Their anti-environmentalism can be summed up in one word:  coal.  Which is odd, since Alabama contributes a mere 1.9% of U.S. production, good enough for an overall ranking of 13.  The state's peak year of production:  1990)  

• 1st District.  Bradley Byrne (R).  Proposed an amendment that would have cut all FY 2015 funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 
• 2nd District.  Martha Roby (R).   Voted YES on opening Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling and barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. Signed the No Climate Tax Pledge by Americans for Prosperity.
• 3rd District.  Mike Rogers (R).   League of Conservation scorecard: 2013: 0%.  Lifetime (2003-): 9%. 
• 4th District.  Robert Aderholt (R).  Without bothering to fact-check, he uses a discredited petition rejecting climate change to make a point. 
• 5th District.  Mo Brooke (R).  Climate Experts Testify that Climate Change Projections are Unreliable and Misleading.
• 6th District.  Stephen Baucus (R).   League of Conservation scorecard: 2013: 0% Lifetime (1993- ): 8%

Alaska Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• At-large District.  Don Young (R).   Ridiculed environmentalists as a “self-centered bunch of waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots.....not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.” 

 Arizona Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• 4th District.  Paul Gosar (R).   Takes his environmental cues from cattle and sheep producers.
• 5th District.  Matt Salmon (R).   This quote sums up his view:  “I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.”  Signed Koch Brothers "No Climate Tax" pledge. 
• 6th District.  David Schweikert (R).  Known to throw a hissy over "the Al Gores of the world".  Chairs House Subcommittee on Environment. 
• 8th District.  Trent Franks (R).   League of Conservation scorecard:2013: 11%.  Lifetime (since 2003): 5%. 

Arkansas Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• 1st District.  Rick Crawford (R).   Vow to his constituents:  "As long as the Obama EPA continues its assault on farmers, I will continue to fight senseless regulations that only serve to cripple American agriculture." 
• 2nd District.  Tim Griffin (R).  Perhaps one of the few scientists in the Republican House caucus.  As far as global warming is concerned, he claims "that there are a lot of shenanigans going on with the data."   
• 3rd District.  Steve Womack (R).   Loves his fossil fuels.
• 4th District.  Tom Cotton (R).  Claims the earth's temperature hasn't warmed in 16 years, a climate denier meme.  The reality:  9 of the 10 warmest years on record occurred since 1998.

California Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• 1st District.  Doug LaMalfa (R).  Ask him about air conditioners, packing plants, or praying for rain.
• 4th District.  Tom McClintock (R).  Still smarting that he never received a Nobel Prize in the 3rd grade. 
• 8th District.  Paul Cook (R).   ALEC shill for the Keystone pipeline. 
• 10th District.  Jeff Denham (R).  Appears to think that climate skeptics are on "the right side of the issue."  
• 21st District.  David Valadao (R).  Represents a portion of California's Central Valley, a hotbed of climate skepticism, as the representative's League of Conservation Voters scorecard indicates. 
• 22nd District.  Devin Nunes (R).   Throws hissy fit, a Republican specialty, over what he calls Obama's extremist climate agenda.
• 23rd District.  Kevin McCarthy (R).   Bemoans those dang "harmful regulations".
• 25th District.  Buck McKeon (R).  7% lifetime score on League of Conservation Voters' National Environment Scorecard after 24 years in House.
• 31st District.  Gary Miller (R).   3% lifetime score on League of Conservation Voters' National Environment Scorecard after 14 years in House.
• 39th District.  Ed Royce (R).  A liberal among the California Republican caucus:  a 13% lifetime score on the League of Conservation Voters' National Environment Scorecard. 
• 42nd District.  Ken Calvert (R).  Although comfortably ensconced in the Republican environmental mainstream, he's not above making an heretical remark or two.
• 45th District.  John Campbell (R).  Signer of Americans for Prosperity "No Climate Tax Pledge"; 9% lifetime score from the League of Conservative Voters, 
• 48th District.  Dana Rohrabacher (R).  Mouths the same climate denier meme as the newly elected U.S. Senator from Arkansas.
• 49th District.  Darrell Issa (R).  The richest member of Congress, he recently won the League of Conservation Voters "Climate Denier Award". 
• 50th District.  Duncan Hunter (R).  Can you top this?  "Thousands of people die every year of cold, so if we had global warming it would save lives." 

Colorado Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• 3rd District.  Scott Tipton (R).  Tree rings tell us all we need to know.
• 4th District.  Cory Gardner (R).  Another beneficiary of the 2010 Tea Party wave.  And he adjusted his views accordingly.
• 5th District.  Doug Lamborn (R).  Works tirelessly to assure that climate change remains "an extremely controversial topic".   (Is also a big fan of impeaching Obama.)  
• 6th District.  Mike Coffman (R).   Solidly parks his butt in the the-science-is-not-quite-settled camp. 

No House Republicans hail from Connecticut and Delaware. 
Florida Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• 1st District.  Jeff Miller (R).  "Flintstones, meet the Flintstones.  They're the modern Stone Age fam-a-lee."
• 2nd District.  Steve Southerland (R).  Spouts the company line.
• 3rd District.  Ted Yoho (R).  "I'm not smart enough for that."
• 4th District.  Ander Crenshaw (R).  All talk, no action.
• 6th District.  Ron DeSantis (R).  As reported by ThinkProgress, a majority of Congressional Republicans are climate deniers.  At this point in the exercise, we appear to have unanimity.
• 7th District.  John Mica (R).   7% lifetime score from League of Conservation Voters after 22 years in the House.
• 8th District.  Bill Posey (R). Sez climate change has been with us since the Earth was formed.  (Pick your date.)
• 10th District.  Daniel Webster (R).  9% score from League of Conservation Voters during his 2 terms in office.
• 11th District.  Richard Nugent (R).   6% score from League of Conservation Voters during his 2 terms in office.
• 12th District.  Gus Bilirakis (R).  Big fan of fossil fuels. 
• 13th District.  David Jolly (R).  Happy to drift along with the fossil-fuel flow.