0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 41
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          WILLIAM E. PORTER
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THAT A TASK FORCE BE ESTABLISHED TO DEVELOP AND
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0012|     ANALYZE STRATEGIES AND RECOMMEND METHODS OF FUNDING A
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0013|     STATEWIDE CLIMATE PROGRAM.
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0014|     
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0015|          WHEREAS, weather and climate play extremely influential
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0016|     and significant roles in the natural world, and knowledge of
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0017|     climate and climatic processes is important to the health and
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0018|     well-being of New Mexicans; and
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0019|          WHEREAS, to meet the need for climatic knowledge, forty-
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0020|     nine of the fifty United States have established an office of
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0021|     state climatologist; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, New Mexico is a leader in the use of climatic
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0023|     information to improve agricultural production and assess the
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0024|     effect of climate on the natural environment; and
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0025|          WHEREAS, the purpose of the office of state climatologist
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0001|     is to assist the state in understanding and responding to
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0002|     natural and man-induced climatic processes and their
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0003|     implications, to cooperate with the federal government in
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0004|     activities relating to climate studies and advisory services
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0005|     and to promote and disseminate a general knowledge of the
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0006|     climatology of the state;
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0007|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0008|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that a task force be created to develop
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0009|     strategies to help New Mexico maintain leadership in the use
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0010|     of climatic information to assess the effect of climate on the
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0011|     natural environment, agricultural production, land and natural
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0012|     resources and human health, and to make recommendations on key
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0013|     issues, such as financing the collection and dissemination of
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0014|     climatic information to educate the national population and
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0015|     the tourist industry about the healthy and unique climate of
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0016|     New Mexico that makes the state not only an exemplary place to
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0017|     live and visit but also an ideal place to locate industry and
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0018|     associated jobs; and
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0019|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the members of the task force
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0020|     include the state climatologist and be appointed by the dean
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0021|     of the college of agriculture and home economics at New Mexico
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0022|     state university; and
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0023|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0024|     distributed to the dean of the college of agriculture and home
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0025|     economics at New Mexico state university and to the state
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0001|     climatologist.
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