Opinion

Climate Change and CA Misguided and Expensive Regulations (Part 1 of 2) :

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.”- David Rockefeller

It has been well established that the hoopla over the threat of climate change is all drama and little fact. The famous “hockey stick” graph created by Dr. Michael Mann asserting the 20^th century was the warmest in 1,000 years was debunked by Canadian scientists McIntyre and McKitrick , who found serious errors in Mann’s analysis. (This is the famous graph used by Al Gore and the U.N. science panel to support their claim of man-caused global warming.)

In 2009, “Climategate” exposed the fact that climate scientists at the University of East Anglia and the U.S. had been manipulating and erasing data to arrive at predetermined outcomes supporting climate change. For instance, temperature measurements from stations in China failed to take into account their location and the influence of the warming effects of expanding cities.

In an attempt to make October 2009 the hottest on record, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) were caught using September figures for Russia. New Zealand’s NIWA, (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research,) was caught manipulating raw data to show a significant rise in temperatures over the last century where none exists. This was followed by another discovery that a scientist (Briffa) had cherry-picked tree ring data in Russia to produce results indicating global warming.

A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claimed 80 per cent of Himalayan glacier area would be gone by 2035. However, 2012 research done by scientists at the University of Colorado based on observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite shows that the world's greatest snow-capped peaks have lost no ice in the last decade and that polar ice is melting at a much lower rate than claimed.

Studies have now shown that clouds over the poles, rather than trapping greenhouse gases, actually cool, rather than heat, the stratosphere. [Paper published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics June 2012] A comparison of the ARGO-ERA Global Ocean Heat Content Model projections for January 2003-2011 with actual measurements shows that the actual mean trend was negligible compared to model projections.<

One of the fathers of Germany’s modern green movement, Professor Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, found hundreds of errors in an IPCC report on renewable energy, but was ignored when he raised concerns. He proceeded to research the evidence and wrote a book based on 800 sources and using 80 charts critiquing the latest science. His conclusion: the science was hyped and exaggerated the impact of CO2 on climate. According to his analysis, we should expect only a few tenths of a degree of future cooling.

Increasingly, men of science are coming forward to go on the record as skeptical of climate change claims. In January, 16 noteworthy international scientists wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal stating:

“The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2.”

In April, fifty top astronauts, scientists and engineers at NASA signed a letter stating: “We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.”

Just recently, the green guru 'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock admitted he “was alarmist about climate book will reflect his new opinion that global warming has not occurred as he had expected.

California, the legislature and Governor Schwarzeneggar embraced global warming as a dire threat and took action. It is now heavily embedded in CA regulation.

In 2006, California passed AB 32, the “California Global Warming Solutions Act” to achieve a mandated goal of slashing carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_32_bill_20060927_chaptered.pdf This was followed by SB 375, the “Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008: ” http://www.farmlandinfo.org/documents/34163/CA_SB_375.pdf then AB 857 on infrastructure planning: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/asm/ab_0851-0900/ab_857_bill_20020829_enrolled.html This was followed by senate bill 391 on transportation blueprints: http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tpp/californiainterregionalblueprint/Documents/cib_progress_report/CIB_Prog_Rpt-EXEC-2010OCT06.pdf and then SB 732 - the Strategic Growth Council http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_732_bill_20080930_chaptered.pdf