Dear Governor Brownback, a "real-live experiment" in red-state governance isn't going to reverse a 120-year trajectory

Sam Brownback is sorry he predicted his tax cuts would work.  (Salon, 12/23/2014)

Let me school you, Bub.

Here's a line graph of your state's history.  Except for the Great Depression decade, it's been increasing.

And here's a companion piece.

And the trajectory continues.

U.S. population has increased 2.5% since 2010.

Kansas' population has increased 1.8% since 2010.

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Christmas Day 2014 at 43.0725° N, 89.5572° W

Current temperature:  39 degrees, about 10 degrees above the historical average.

Photo by Retiring Guy

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Todd Rokita, Indiana's 4th Congressional District

  Photo source:  U.S. Congress

Text source:  Huffington Post

Rokita was re-elected to a 3rd term with 67% of the vote.   He serves on no environmental committees.

Recommended reading for Rep. Rokita and his west-central Indiana constituents.

Economist: Climate change could reshape crop agriculture.  (Purdue University News Service, 12/6/2010)

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. 
• 15th District.  Dennis Ross (R)  It's all about personal responsibility. 
• 16th District.  Vern Buchanan (R).  Proud to represent his rich waterfront property owners. 
• 17th District.  Tom Rooney (R).   One of 48 Republican House members with a 0% score from the National League of Conservation Voters in 2013.
• 19th District.  Curt Clawson (R).  Suggests that climate change "may not exist".
• 25th District.  Mario Diaz-Balart (R).  Not ready to jump on the global warming bandwagon. 
• 27th District.  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R).  Chicken Little, apparently, is one of her favorite folk tales.

Georgia's Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• 1st District.  Jack Kingston (R).  Ask him about climate change, and he'll give you his troglodyte views on evolution.
• 3rd District.  Lynn Westmoreland (R).  One of the Republicans who threw a hissy fit when the Defense Department announced its climate change initiative. 
• 6th District, Tom Price (R).  During 2009 floor debate on a climate-change bill, he asked colleagues for a moment of silence for lost jobs. 
• 7th District.  Rob Woodall (R).  Like his colleague Lynn Westmoreland, Rob believes that climate change discussions should be, at best, marginalized, not expanded. 
• 8th District.  Austin Scott (R).   "Absolutely" skeptical when it comes to climate change.
• 9th District.  Doug Collins (R).   Ranked by National Journal as the most conservative member of the state's House delegation (90.2% rating, 16th overall).  
• 10th District.  Paul Broun (R).  Believes that climate change is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated by the scientific community.  Got his butt kicked in the 2014 Georgia Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
• 11th District.  Phil Gingrey, M.D. (R).  Surgical masks for every cow.
• 14th District.  Tom Graves (R).  Has a facility for stringing cliches together. 

 Idaho's Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• 1st District.  Raul Labrador (R).    According to this list, one of the scariest.
• 2nd District.  Mike Simpson (R).  Tries to come across as reasonable, but his words are contradicted by his 7% lifetime score from the League of Conservative Voters. (Lifetime = 9 terms, 18 years.)    

 Illinois' Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• 6th District.  Peter Roskam (R).  Once referred to climate change as "junk science". 
• 13th District.  Rodney Davis (R).   Content to spout the company line.
• 14th District.  Randy Hultgren (R).  Asserted in 2009 that "we're headed in to a bit of a colder time." 
• 15th District.  John Shimkus (R).   "The B-I-B-L-E/yes, that's the book for me/I stand alone on the word of God/the B-I-B-L-E!!"
• 16th District.  Adam Kinzinger (R).  Gives  new meaning to "all-inclusive".  
• 18th District.  Aaron Schock (R).  When it comes to support of environmental issues, he's all talk and no action.

 Indiana's Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

• 2nd District.  Jackie Walorski (R).   “That’s My Congress” notes Rep. Walorski has followed a conservative course when voting on environmental legislation -- and everything else, for that matter.   Earned a 0% rating from the League of Conservation Voters after her first year in the House.
• 3rd District.  Martin Stutzman (R).  Signed Americans for Prosperity’s “No Climate Tax Pledge” a month before being sworn in as a member of Congress in 2010. 
• 4th District.  Todd Rokita (R).  This climate change denier respects "God's green earth".  Anyone who thinks otherwise is arrogant.