Posted on 06/03/2007 12:09:51 AM PDT by BigFinn
Gov. Schwarzenegger has staked his administration upon two signature issues: his international leadership to reduce “greenhouse gases” and his promise to construct new highways, dams, levees, aqueducts and other public works.
Last month “The Green Governor” toured the globe to tout his “greenhouse gas” bill, AB 32, that requires a 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide by 2020 – making it the most restrictive emissions law in the country. Recently, the governor toured California to tout his public works renaissance that requires $40 billion in taxpayer-financed bonds – making it the biggest borrowing binge in the country.
Individually, these two media events have played to rave reviews. But combined, they form a picture of breathtaking mendacity. The governor's crusade against “greenhouse gases” is, in fact, the single greatest impediment to the era of public works that he has promised, and the crusade for public works construction is the biggest impediment to reducing “greenhouse gases” that he has promised.
To understand the dilemma requires a quick recap of the chemistry lecture that Gov. Schwarzenegger apparently missed. Highways, dams, levees and aqueducts require prodigious amounts of concrete, the central ingredient of which is cement. Cement is manufactured by superheating limestone to produce a compound called “clinker,” which is about two-thirds of the rock's original weight. The missing third of that weight is carbon dioxide. Lots of CO. In fact, cement production is the third biggest contributor of “greenhouse gases” in all human activity, ranking only behind internal combustion and deforestation.
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All each county needs to do is to write a plan:
Ground rules for (this county) plan is that all other counties will reduce C02 emissions enough that (this county) will be able to purchase offsets at the minimal cost of 1 dollar ber 100,000 tons of carbon.
On the other hand the facts are:
1. Global warming would be a good thing.
2. Global warming , to the extent that it exists, is caused by the Sun.
3. The earth already acts as a black body, and so carbon emissions can not cause heating.
If Tom McClintock were an even halfway decent candidate, we wouldn’t be here right now.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
What would be the purpose of all those new roads and bridges? The worlds most expensive bike paths? Frog migration routes? (see Davis tunnel). At some point someone MIGHT want to actually use those things to travel on and guess what? More CO2.....
It’s actualy worse than just travel. Water vapor is the most potent greenhouse gas of all, and he proposes new dams and aqueducts, which will increase water vapor, and thus, greenhouse gas. They have not yet figured out that the recent Supreme Court case saying anything that is put into the air is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act means the end of California agriculture, as well as green lawns.
Hogwash! The only reason McC lost is because the LIBERAL leaders in the California Republican Party starved him of campaign cash and our LIBERAL governor stabbed him in the back a week before the election.
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