The Importance of the California Environmental Quality Act to Global Warming: Why Changes Should be Rejected in the Budget Battle Today

The CEQA is one of the most miguided laws I have ever seen. I am amazed at the number of people who seem to believe that man’s CO2 emissions are causing Global Warming.

This belief has caused many countries in the world to sign the Kyoto accords which have cost billions of dollars with no measurable effects on CO2 concentrations. And, now, States like California have passed laws mandating CO2 reductions which are being used by Environmentalists to stop growth and construction of almost any new industrial or utility facility.

Much of the reason for this comes from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which is a group of politicians and scientists dedicated to the idea that the CO2 man emits contributes to the Green House Gas (GHG) effect. This means the trapping the sun’s energy under an atmospheric layer of gases instead of reflecting energy into space. Now, water vapor is 95% of all GHG’s and man’s contribution is less than 1% of all GHGs. So, if all humanity was euthanized, all industry, power plants, and transportation, were shut down it would only affect 1% of the GHGs. Now, is this like the tail wagging the dog? How could this 1% control the whole?

I saw charts of the earth’s temperature in the 20th century in the IPCC reports, and, even though man’s contributions of CO2 have increased proportionally with population growth and industrialization, they do not seem to fit the curves for temperature. The environmentalists say the earth’s temperature has gone up 1 degree Celsius in the twentieth century, but they never admit that most of this warming happened before 1940, and although there was a warming period from the early 1980s to 1998, there has been no warming since then. None. Now, recent studies show that this pattern has followed the variations in the Sun’s energy on the earth. Mars and other planets are also warming in the same pattern. So, I ask you, is it CO2 or the Sun’s influence?

And, even more recently, there is a Television program called “The Global Warming Swindle” which is a set of interviews with the world’s leading climate scientists who make a good case for the whole IPCC effort, the Environmentalists efforts, and the United Nation’s role as an example of a money spinning scam. And, since many scientists who were part of the IPCC have denounced the fraudulent and inaccurate use of their work, and the use of their names as an imprimatur of scientific accuracy, there is a moral principle here since the IPCC is not telling the truth. If you do a Google or Yahoo search on the title, you will find a high quality video on Yahoo’s video site.

Reputable climate scientists all over the world do not believe man is causing Global Warming, and even many who served on the IPCC now believe that they were wrong to support this theory. If anything, many scientists feel we are now entering a cooling period.

So, why are states and local governments passing draconian laws to curtail development, throttle the power industry, raise taxes on carbon affecting all energy sources, and, yes, even nuclear power, or setting up carbon cap and trade agreements like the one in Europe which has seen the carbon units trade at 20 € per metric ton, to literally centimes, in the last two years?

It’s a mystery to me, because no thoughtful person could possibly believe it, unless, as Al Gore puts it, "it’s not a scientific issue it’s a moral issue." Well, it is certainly not a scientifically valid theory, but it is not a moral issue either, it’s a money making scam, which pays hundreds of thousands of people high wages to spin a justification for government controls, federal, state and local taxes, and even worldwide United Nations taxation. Former President Chirac of France said "it’s a wonderful excuse to introduce world socialism under the government of the UN."

No, thank you.

Man is not causing Global Warming, it’s not true, it’s a scam, and our gullible politicians are letting radical Environmentalists use this scam to stop our growth, stop construction of needed infrastructure for our growing population, and to do to our society what their environmental terrorists tried to do -- curb growth by destroying businesses and cars, burning construction projects to the ground, spiking trees, and causing hundreds of millions of dollars damages to private and public facilities.

This is much better for them, and much more effective. It’s just a terrible result for everyone else, and the damage will be felt for generations. We should stop it now!

Let's shut the California economy down to reduce human produced C02! The only problem is developing countries like China and India will more than make up for our contribution. Human caused Global Warming is a theory using models with questionable assumptions (I have heard scientists say the assumptions are contrary to science being taught in textbooks.) The United States government paid a statistical firm to evaluate the model used to create the infamous "hockey stick" chart and found basic statistical errors. In fact, the model always produces a "hockey stick" chart. Human cities clearly create heat islands which increase temperatures locally. One study of temperatures in US removed temperature measurements from cities of populations of more than 5,000 and found a cooling trend in the United States.

Arthur and Bob: CEQA has been the law of California for three decades. I guess if you don't believe actions should be taken on global warming by the state of California, you don't also like this basic California environmental law.

Frank, you are right.

Actually, CEQA has been on the books since 1970. The real mischief maker is AB32, and the Attorney General's incredible interpretation of it. As I understand it, the law will not even be phased in until 2012, yet the Attorney General (moonbeam Jerry Brown) has filed a suit against San Bernardino County and has sent letters challenging housing developments in San Jose and in Yuba County, on the basis of a law which will not even be in effect until 2012.

His challenges have a chilling effect because virtually every project will produce CO2 emissions. So, if the Attorney General files suits for this reason, we can expect to see a tremendous number of suits filed by Environmental organizations with the express purpose of stopping every single project of any consequence in California.

Now, the Environmentalists have just been given a weapon of tremendous importance to them. We all know that radical Environmental organizations have financed domestic terrorism to stop development illegally by burning down construction in process, destroying vehicles, cutting brake lines on construction equipment, spiking trees, and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in private and public property losses and loss of life. The FBI has called these the most dangerous terrorists we face today.

Well, with this naive and badly drafted AB32 based on bad science, they don't have to wage illegal terrorism any more. They can just file thousands of law suits and class action law suits to bring California's economy to its knees, all legally in the name of preventing Global Warming.

And, of course, this is precisely what they want to do. This movement is supported by millions of people who are usually shocked to find out that their contributions have gone to terrorist organizations, and those people I have explain it to refuse to stop supporting them, because they cannot understand that they not just out to reduce air pollution and to save endangered species.

Of course, the Environmentalists consider the human race as some kind of vermin and the more radical ones seek to depopulate the Western States and return them to the wolves and bears. They are very proud of Rachael Carson's influence in banning DDT. Of course, the UN has now said this act caused the deaths of 30 million people over the 30 years the ban was in effect. They lifted the ban so Africa could not be plagued by Malaria. But, what the hell, to a radical Environmentalist perhaps getting rid of the 30 million people in Africa was a good thing.

So, the Environmentalists are winning, it will cost us trillions of dollars and will ruin California for our children and grand-children, but, what the hell, we are all vermin in their eyes anyway.

Jerry Brown is an imbecile, and we have been betrayed by our Governor and Legislature into passing the AB32 which has no scientific basis whatsoever and will give radical Environmentalists a license to stop California in its tracks. Remember, they seek to de-populate the Western States, and now they have their first legal weapon to do so.

This law needs to be challenged, and so must CEQA which has now been used by the Attorney General in an abusive way beyond the intention of the drafters of the law.

The Republicans have got it right, and the Democrats are dead wrong and are the patsies of the Environmentalists and their subversive fellow travelers.

jerry brown again commencing on the most misquided self centered, egotistical initiative, usurping his power as attorney general, and again proving that the democratic legislature are willing to adopt ludricrous rules that affect little or nothing. I have attempted and studied going green. Rediculous, photovoltaic, $145,000.00 (just for an ample system for my house), with little government support, hybrid, state will not issue car pool stickers anymore, mass trasit on frwy sytem to all counties, non existent. Are there any democrats that can see the pitiful state of our overwhelmingly democractic legislature.

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