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The illusion of a climate crisis and the promise of action is a big part of what got California's Democrat super-majority elected. The electorate eat it up and vote accordingly giving the state government a mandate to act. Impact on the economy and on the citizenry must not deter the program. Yet, the evidence for a true climate crisis is tenuous at best. Measured temperatures are well within what is known to have existed before fossil fuel and CO2 is lower than it has been for much of the history of the earth. Climate predictions for the far future are too complex to solve mathematically in any meaningful way so the climate scientists simplify the problem by making assumptions about what is important and what is not and then use computers to model this stick-man representation of nature. The result is a "prediction" of what the climate might be like in 150 or 300 or 1000 years. So the stick-man model cannot be proven in our lifetimes? The negative impact of climate legislation as real but the proof is based on a cartoonish representation of nature created by climate scientist zealots? Extraordinary claims (fossil fuel is a existential threat to life) require extraordinary proof. Computer models that cannot be validated in our lifetime do not qualify as extraordinary proof. Yet the damage is extraordinary and real and now.

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Jun 15Edited

Energy crisis or political crisis? Wait, our County’s future energy policy is being decided by Uncle Chen?

Yes, the Dems in Sacramento are looking for cover once it was revealed that our gas prices may soon spike to $10/gal. These same geniuses figured out there’s no refinery capacity AND because of nutty state mandates, prohibits importing oil from other states? Talk about a self imposed crisis.

Trump has made it clear, NO EV mandates, so where is our energy suppose to come from,

wind farms? Again, Trump just made it clear that these “farms” are an ecological disaster due to the inability to recycle their huge turbines. Can anyone imagine our Central Coast looking like Palm Springs? Whales, sea birds be damed! Just ask the folks in Morro Bay how that’s working out.

Then there is the issue of the BESS battery plants popping up around the Central Coast. One just got forced on the folks in Nipomo with an additional plant planned for Goleta, right next to the Elwood Elementary School and a senior retirement home. Sure hope they have fire coverage, oh wait, the Elwood fire station is mothballed because the City of Goleta is going broke! Where is all the public hearings? Are they following the same regulatory process as for fossil fuel production?

California energy policy is obviously controlled by Dems who take their marching orders from folks like Linda Krop, UCSB plant and Environmental Defense Center Grand Poobah and has single handily prevented Sable from repairing and operating their own pipeline, requiring massive trucking of their product.

Yes, we can expect our California leaders to do with energy what they have done with education, immigration, crime enforcement, housing, homelessness etc. Just look at the disastrous multi billion dollar boondoggle “train to nowhere” which hasn’t even laid one rail and really amounts to a massive payday for the Unions!

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