Posted on 08/29/2006 9:16:02 AM PDT by calcowgirl
Is water vapor a "pollutant"? Yes, according to the California Climate Action Team Report. Prepared in support of pending state "global warming" legislation, it recommends 45 emission-reduction measures intended to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions toward 1990 levels by 2020.
Amazingly, the report fails to tell us the predicted reduction in future temperatures if 1990-level emissions are achieved. So we have done that analysis here. If California were to achieve the carbon-dioxide reductions, the predicted decline in world temperatures in the year 2100 would be thirteen one-thousandths of a degree Celsius....
The global-warming horror stories in the CCAT report – flooding, fires, heat waves, drought, insects – truly are biblical, but its proposals never would be approved for such tiny effects. Moreover, the CCAT free-lunch claim that the regulations would impose no economic costs is preposterous. The real question is: What does the science actually tell us?
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There were no small glaciers 5,000 years ago in what would become the Western United States. Surface temperatures 3,000 years ago were about 2 degrees Celsius higher than today, abnormally low 1,500 years ago, and over 1 degree Celsius warmer in places 1,000...
So much for Gov. Schwarzenegger's argument that "The debate is over." ...
The CCAT report fundamentally is a political document far less concerned with environmental quality than enhancing the political power of the Left to subsidize its constituencies. Recall the myriad other environmental scare campaigns. The pesticide Alar. Global cooling. The northern spotted owl. Power lines and childhood cancer. The population bomb and worldwide famine by the 1980s. The worldwide depletion of most natural resources by the year 2000. And so on. It is time to just say no.
CONTACT US: Adjunct Fellow in the Adjunct California Global Warming project at the Pacific Research Institute
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
WE'RE DOOMED AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
(Unless you adopt my agenda . . . )
States that are preferable to California to move to.
Advantages.
Disadvantages... Etc.
I'm looking.
Any further interest?
I think there are some of those threads already.
I'm not quite ready to raise my white flag, but I sure share the sentiment!
We're losing one Californian in the next few months... goldstategop.
Hey, GSP--you gonna keep your screenname? LOL
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
? I don't get it! Is what permanent?
Are you really bailing out on this beautiful screwed up state government??? (Hey Dan! Note I said "government," not just "state!")
Arnoiled just has to know this stuff he's pushing for Robert Kennedy, Jr. is pure BOGUSCITY, blended with wretched GANG-GREEN BILE!!!
Of course he knows... and obviously doesn't care!
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