Two headlines this morning that seemed of a piece: First, in the Guardian, there was this alarming item: Utah delivers vote of no confidence for ‘climate alarmists.’ The US’s most Republican state passes bill disputing science of climate change, claiming emissions are ‘essentially harmless.’”

The original version of the bill dismissed climate science as a “well organised and ongoing effort to manipulate and incorporate “tricks” related to global temperature data in order to produce a global warming outcome”. It accused those seeking action on climate change of riding a “gravy train” and their efforts would “ultimately lock billions of human beings into long-term poverty”.

In the heat of the debate, the representative Mike Noel said environmentalists were part of a vast conspiracy to destroy the American way of life and control world population through forced sterilisation and abortion.

By the time the final version of the bill came to a vote, cooler heads apparently prevailed. The bill dropped the word “conspiracy”, and described climate science as “questionable” rather than “flawed.”

Okie dokey… and then in the Los Angeles Times, this story ran this morning: In Utah, a plan to cut 12th grade.

Coincidence or is the state of Utah intent of raising an entire generation of know-nothing Sean Hannity types? It boggles the mind…