00HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 33                                                                                         
01 Urging the United States Senate to decline to ratify the treaty from the United                                         
02 Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted in December 1997 at                                              
03 Kyoto, Japan.                                                                                                           
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                              
05  WHEREAS, in December 1997, the United Nations Framework Convention on                                                
06 Climate Change met in Kyoto, Japan, and adopted a treaty that would commit the United                                   
07 States to reducing carbon dioxide emissions to seven percent below 1990 levels; and                                     
08  WHEREAS the claim that global warming is due to increased levels of carbon dioxide                                   
09 has not been scientifically proven, and scientists are continuing to investigate and debate this                        
10 claim; and                                                                                                              
11  WHEREAS the convention on climate change intended to address climate change on                                       
12 a global basis; and                                                                                                     
13  WHEREAS 129 developing nations, including China, Mexico, India, Brazil, and South                                    
14 Korea, are exempt from the restrictions of the Kyoto treaty, putting the United States at a                             

01 severe competitive disadvantage in the global economy; and                                                              
02  WHEREAS the adoption of the Kyoto treaty may lead to government control of                                           
03 industry through the imposition of carbon production permits, rationing, and a tax levy on                              
04 consumer carbon emissions, resulting in sharply increased costs and the loss of thousands of                            
05 jobs in the United States;                                                                                              
06  BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the United States Senate                                      
07 to decline to ratify the Kyoto treaty adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention                                
08 on Climate Change under its present terms; and be it                                                                    
09  FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the Congress to enact                                       
10 legislation prohibiting the adoption of an executive order or regulation that attempts to                               
11 implement any provision of the treaty.                                                                                  
12  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the                              
13 United States; the Honorable Al Gore, Jr., Vice-President of the United States and president                            
14 of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the U.S. House of                                       
15 Representatives; the Honorable Trent Lott, Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate; and to the                               
16 Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the                                         
17 Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress.