Memo to the California State Senate on the California Environmental Quality Act

Is not HYSTERIA!

The Republicans are right to want to delay the implementation of AB32 and the interpretation of the Attorney General on CO2 as a pollutant under the CEQA for excellent reasons. The reason is that CO2 emissions are not causing Global Warming, and the efforts to reduce or restrict them are just not the right thing to do.

It is you who is over reacting and being a dupe by the theory of man’s guilt for Global Warming because of CO2 emissions. I know that this is popular idea, and that you and your lobbying groups receive millions in contributions to fight Global Warming. But, it is by no means true that it is “settled science” or that climate scientists are almost unanimous in believing this theory.

Since 1998, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been shown to be politically motivated and staffed by Environmentalists with an ax to grind. There are no statisticians on the IPCC, and a group of Canadian Statisticians showed that the "smoking gun" of man's responsibility for Global Warming (the so-called hockey-stick graph) chart in the first three IPPC reports was statistically invalid, and the input data had been rigged to produce just such a graph. The IPCC has withdrawn this graph in the 2007 report.

In addition, many scientists who contributed to the original IPCC reports have requested that their names be removed from the reports because the executive summaries furnished to the press contradicted their findings! But, much to their amazement, the IPCC refused to do so. One member had to sue the IPCC to get his name removed.

And, when the climate models forecasting the Global warming were re-run with real 20th century data, they forecasted much higher temperatures than we can measure today.

So, the IPCC used fraudulent methods, lied about the conclusions of its scientists, and used unreliable models to predict much higher temperatures than are actually the fact, are we are supposed to believe them and spend trillions of dollars on their wishful thinking?

More recently, Channel 4 in the UK produced a program called "The Global Warming Swindle" which featured interviews with qualified climate experts, world-class experts, who said the theory that man is causing Global Warming with CO2 emissions is not true, and that there is no correlation to CO2 concentrations and very good correlations with the variations in the Sun’s energy falling on earth. We can see the same warming on Mars and the other planets.

Now, how could we be hornswoggled like this? The reasons, I believe, is because the IPCC and their fellow travelers are sel-selected avid Environmentalists whose mission was to prove man is responsible for Global Warming, not to figure out any other explanation.

They want to see us stop consuming resources, stop development, stop the rich from consuming more than their share, stop refineries, power plants, and even the construction of homes. Well, some radical Environmentalists have even funded terrorists who destroyed projects, spiked trees, cut hydraulic lines on construction equipment, and have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses just to achieve such a result. So, telling some lies about Global Warming to make their world-vision to come true is a pretty cheap price to pay for such a good result.

It's a terrible result for everyone else though.

Now, because of AB32 and CEQA the Democrats and the Environmentalists can stop any development in its tracks if it produces added CO2 -- just as the Attorney General has done by filing lawsuits in 2007. Now, for those Californians who want solutions to traffic problems, want lower fuel and electricity prices, want nice homes for their children, they can kiss it all goodbye if they do not support the Republican efforts.

Converting to renewable sources (hydro, solar, wind, eco fuel, methane from earth fills) is nice, but the costs are at least three times as much as traditional energy sources, and the Environmentalists have even succeeded in destroying a hydro source of electricity in Oregon because of lack of economic feasibility brought about by, yes, Environmental restrictions.

But, the crying shame about all this is that the current fluctuations in climate are comparable to those seen in the far distant past; CO2 is not warming the environment; the IPCC is wrong for political reasons; and the Environmentalists now have a weapon to stop the state's development in its tracks.

Our children, and their children and their children, will have their expectations for a good life dashed for a fiction, based on the Environmentalists’ atavistic desire to return to simpler times. We will see unelected, self-appointed activists control their future, and all energy prices explode upward, roads not built, refineries not constructed, homes unavailable as the supply is reduced and demand increases.

But, the situation is so bad since many states and local communities are acting to put into place just the sort of programs which the Federal Law (Hagel-Byrd 1997, applying to the Kyoto-like treaties which exempt developing countries and putting burdens on the US) prohibits, that there is sure to be a movement for Federal preemption, and, we need it desperately because our State Government is in the hands of imbeciles.

It seems to me that the best thing you can do is realize you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

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