Thank you, Mike. What a fitting column for Labor Day! Forget those gas powered parties today! No grilled carne asada, hot dogs or marshmallows for you! Try it and you'll be in jail begging for some microwaved insects to celebrate with.
Das Williams, Joan Hartmann, Laura Capps. It doesn't get stupider - or more ambitious - than those three. I have to hand it to The Das, though. He's still around, still talking about the good work he needs to do for Santa Barbara, still referring to himself in the mythological third person. As he was quoted in The Independent's piece: “contrary to popular belief, this is not just Das sitting in a room somewhere coming up with all these things” it is “more than a plan”; it is a “community-driven vision for a more equitable and resilient future, and therefore is fundamentally ambitious and transformative.” Phew! Was that a cow fart or just The Das blowing Greenhouse Gas?
But here's what I'm waiting for: their explanation as to how all the building they want in this county can be accomplished with all the emission reduction they're planning.
Joan Hartman has said “We're in a serious crisis for human life.” She's right. If they keep spending our money on this Green nonsense we won't have anything leftover for essentials - like food, healthcare and housing.
Btw, I am not a Republican saying this. I was always a Democrat until 2016 when I saw that Trump was much more aligned with my values than what the Democratic Party had become. I left the Dem Party. I didn't become a Republican. Why? The Democratic Party has become tyrannically insane because it is the only party in California. So it has attracted evil megalomaniacs because they see an opportunity in its dominance. Had it been the Republican Party in total power here, I believe we would be seeing equally awful politicians, just Republicans, not Democrats. We don't need Republicans in total power here, we need a two party system again and I don't see that happening until the media monopoly ends. I optimistically think that's going to happen with the next generation because the young people I talk to don't read establishment newspapers or watch establishment news stations. I think the war that has started between dictatorships like Macron's and Pavel or Brazil's and Elon is a sign of how unimportant traditional media is becoming.
Speaking of "establishment newspapers," you must read the NYT article titled, "How California Became the New Center of Political Corruption." Labeled a political tragedy of the once highly regarded Jose Huizar, who now is experiencing a downfall at LA City Hall. The FBI nabbed him accepting $1.8M in casino chips, luxury hotel stays, a box full of cash and prostitutes from Chinese developers. My mind flashed to the musical comedy, The Pajama Game," ... and the song, "Isn't it Grand How the Money Changes Hands." Put the title in the search browser and read the article for free via Yahoo. Being in government is all about money to many politicians. It has always been about money for some, history repeats itself.
I found this at a SB City hiring website: "With a THOUSAND full-time positions and HUNDREDS of part-time hourly positions, the City of Santa Barbara offers multiple opportunities to grow within the organization. Many of our management employees began their career with the City at the entry level." Of course, as an understudy you can go from "entry level" if you play your cards right to "management," all that's required is to have the smarts of Jed Clampett or Jethro Bodine, be a relative of someone already employed by the city and the desire to make money for your bosses. Yes, I'm interested! OK, you're hired!
Thank you, Bill. I get NYT free the way you said, I haven't paid for a copy since it took them 11 years to finally mail me a check they owed for a piece. Yes, the Grey Lady is notoriously bad about paying - shockeroo! I checked it out. Interesting how NYT is reporting a wee bit about the CA cesspool. I suspect it's them telling Kamala, “look how fast we made you a viable candidate - we can make you look like a joke even faster.”
It's incredible what Santa Barbara is turning itself into.
If you haven't watched Megyn Kelly's analysis of the Harris/Walz interview on YouTube, you'll find it fascinating. Search for "Megyn Kelly's Analysis of CNN's Softball Interview: Kamala Harris' Lies, Tim Walz's Ridiculous Spin."
Megyn's terrific. There are still good ones, like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Miranda Devine. Do you read my friend James Kunstler? He's one of the best.
Kunstler and I are on the same wavelength when it comes to the "American Blob," as he calls it. And I refer to Trump as "The Equalizer," the person that will clean the blobs up <g>.
This fine article by Mr Stoker points out the dead machine of government regulators growing inexorably to feed itself and its dead government minions, with no regard to creating efficiencies in or allowing the private sector to create wealth, prosperity or growth. As the numbers show, Santa Barbara has about 200% more government employees and expenses for the same amount of people in our population compared to most other California cities, governments, and county governments. As I wrote a year ago, SB county government has an unfunded pension deficit of over $1 billion, and to put that in perspective, $1 billion means the county must extract 1,000 - million dollar homes from the private sector, and put that money into the pockets of government workers, regulators and pensioners who are not even working anymore. That’s our legacy from Salud Carbajal and any other spendthrift supervisors we elected to overwatch, and monitor our local county government . Our current supervisors basically function as pension managers for the government. Again the dead government machine grinds on with its main purpose to extract private wealth and transfer it to the unemployed county workers and to fund unneeded and unproductive programs that hinder development and hinder private prosperity as their main focus. Yes, government has a purpose to do those things we cannot do ourselves individually, but at this point, it’s the dead hand of government gone wild. Soon there will be no oil industry, no building industry, except for the rich) no manufacturing, no development.. Instead we will have government workers running everything and a few coffee shops for our children to work in. That is not the American dream. It is a socialist nightmare.
Yes Mr. Cole, the Democratic machine that runs our State and County has now successfully managed to employ a majority of local voters. Who in their right mind would ever vote against their employer?
In the distant past, CO2 has been higher and it has been lower than it is today. In the distant past the temperature has been higher and it has been lower than it is today, all before man used fossil fuel. Yet today, the government funded climate geniuses have computer models that predict extinction of the human race if CO2 emissions are not reduced by massive government regulation, government growth, massive spending, inflation, destruction of small business, and large taxation. Earlier versions of climate computer models predicted massive loss of polar ice, sea level rise and snow free mountains by today. Remember An Inconvenient Truth? Yet this computer model doom has not happened. Computer models are no better than the integrity of the zealot writing the code or the midwit running the computer model. Unknown variables serve as model input parameters and can be chosen to provide just about any model output desired. Proof of this is the fact that previous computer models have been wrong. Am I supposed to now believe the models are accurate? No more than I now believe the CDC after lying to me about covid and those horrible injections. Both The CDC and the climate dummies have succeeded in expanding government size and that is what this is really all about.
They need an evil to fight against so they have a rationale to take our money and property and impose more and more control. Trump, Climate Change, Elon Musk, maybe their figure of evil will be Jeff Barton next.
So, on the one hand climate change is advertised as an existential threat and your google search confirms that it is a threat to the world. Yet MIT claims that it will be super bad but will not be catastrophic to humanity. Google searches make people dumber not smarter. It is an easy way to find whatever shit you want to support whatever shit notion you might have. Try to get in touch with your inner John Thomas and observe and conclude on your own. You might find that it serves you better. Remember the best data says that it has gotten about 1 degree C hotter in the last 150 years or something like that. That is imperceptible. Yet I hear idiots saying it feels so hot now due to global warming and they surf the web and see pictures of burning forests. Do you feel that it is hotter? Do you think you can perceive fractions of a degree that it has warmed in your lifetime? As your favorite genius of our time might say this climate change business is malarkey.
This is the same MIT that claims that the covid vaccine is safe and effective and still maintains the same position. Most of our institutions of higher learning spew a lot of shit about covid and climate change. How many times do you have to be lied to before you question the source? It was not like this when I went to puppeteer school in the 1970's.
I won't dispute the science of any side of climate change. I was born six decades ago, human population was about 3 billion. Now it's over 8 billion, just in my lifetime that's 5 billion more mouths to feed, and house, and provide fresh water. Plus, every one of these additions to the population since 1960 requires the support system for their standard of living.
So how many people can the planet sustain?. You speak as if you know but you do not know. Who decides how many people is acceptable and what to do about it. Nobody knows nor should anyone have the power to act on population engineering. Especially when the motivation is provided by computer models which have not proven to be accurate. In fact the computer models have been wrong in every way. You my man, have been snowed.
"other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
Funding this ethical monster is the ice tea and skittles of the real situation- the climate agenda is a fraud, Co2 is no a poison and out contribution to it is so miniscule it would be like a pristine Golden Gate Bridge with a grain of sand on it and we say "the bridge is dirty, we must clean it!" Whether or not we have funding for this asinine advance in the agenda is nearly irrelevant.
Existential crisis! Existential crisis!!! Santa Barbara can solve the climate crisis all on our own if we just try hard enough! And spend enough!!! Oh, and let’s not forget to keep packing ever more people into already-settled and developed neighborhoods! Because that’s the only way to be good people!!!
I suppose it’s asking too much to insist that our local pols and bureaucrats stop drama-queening about global challenges and get back to the local nitty gritty of filling in potholes. Just not glamorous enough for the likes of Joan, Laura and Das?
Btw, a story idea for any of the good writers here at SBCurrent: why on earth, in all the roadwork that’s being done around town, are the roads being refinished in black? Not gray, not even gray-black, but black-black? Santa Barbara’s streets have never been black before, but now miles and miles of them are being turned black. It looks awful — like Utica or Syracuse. And of course black roads get hot in the sun. I don’t remember voting for our roads and streets to be turned black. So which of our planners, bureaucrats or whatever made this decision? Why on earth was it made? And can we get back to roadage and streetage that looks like a little more like Santa Barbara?
Another story idea: is there any way to guesstimate how much money we’ve spent in recent years creating bike lanes that are largely unused? What a waste of time, money, effort and political willpower they represent. I often drive for miles without seeing any bicyclists at all using the bike lanes — Modoc, I’m especially thinking of you — yet it must have cost millions to construct them.
I say all the above as an old-style, pre “Global Warming” eco-nut, btw. One of the most tragic things about the Global Warming\Climate Change push is that it’s taken over to the point of supplanting the entire eco/enviro movement. There are many small, particular worthwhile things that we could do to make our lives a little more sane, relaxed and healthy, but amidst all the shrieking about Climate Change! Climate Change! they get no attention at all. It’s like a fat person who’s so obsessed, boring and domineering about the general topic of weight loss that he never gets around to taking any small, particular steps in the direction of living more healthily.
I belive in climate change - but I do agree that it's become the only 800 pound guerrilla in the room. All sorts of other topics and concerns have been swept off the table.
Yes, Sawbilly, if I weren't driving when I HAVE to get my mail in Santa Barbara proper , I would shut my eyes. It is so ugly anymore and so ridiculously set up Ditto on downtown Goleta!
“What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.” Quote from Richard Lindzen, a highly respected American Atmospheric Physicist and a retired, former MIT Professor of Meteorology.
Ever worked around scientists? First problem is most of scientists are Democrats outnumbering the more honest conservatives. The second problem is the Dems will lie to the public and only tell the real truth about the atmosphere between themselves. The chances of the general public hearing the truth about gasses is nil, unfortunately. The first thing to become aware of is the use of PPM (parts per million) versus percentages. As I have stated, 1PPM is equal to 0.0001%, very difficult to measure. A 100PPM change is 0.01% change, still tough to measure. Notice something ... the PPM numbers have a sense of being "large," a psychological trick. Let's go to 1000PM, oh my gosh, that's a huge number ... no it isn't, it's only a 0.1% change. See how the environmentalist like to play games using PPM ... they look like "big" numbers to the average brain, but to someone like me, I've used PPM's all my life in engineering work to define small drifts or changes in electrical parameters. If anyone indicates very low PPM changes due to atmospheric changes in gas levels, it's honest-to-goodness baloney. It's a big atmosphere out there and to define small PPM changes requires knowing the time of day and how measurements are made, so on and so forth. The general public is being hoodwinked like about everything else we are told by those in the environmental industry.
It is amazing how our elected officials in local government have seemingly put another nail in the coffin of private industry with laws or regulations, making it almost impossible to be profitable in SB County?
Talk about governmental overreach, since when is the environment a primary concern of locally elected politicians, isn’t that why we have an EPA?
It would seem now the government or businesses which are heavy funded by government (Cottage Hospital, UCSB, Dignity Health) are the largest employer in SB County. Is this by accident? Is private industry now extinct in SB County because of the cost of land and now because of the cost is the regulatory state? This is what we voted for when we elected radical environmentalists to the BOS…really?
It would not surprise me to find out this entire scheme was to collude and conspire against any and all companies in the petrochemical industry, what a shocker! What needs to happen, but I’m not sure it will, is private corporations need to ban together and sue the living daylights out of the County for unconstitutional abuse of authority for conspiring to put them out of business!
So let me get this straight, the County can’t seem to maintain our streets, roads and infrastructure by virtue of deferred maintenance and massive red ink but they plan to save us by protecting us from the environment? Man, that is a con only the lefty majority would believe!
After all between Gates & the Chinese buying up agricultural properties and Gates push for us to eat bugs along with implanting our food with mRNA drugs.
Would this be a long term play to drive local ag out of business?
Yeah, I know, conspiracy theory.
But we’ve seen too many conspiracies vine true over the last several years.
And we know our local government is a puppet regime run by someone else.
No you are right. Klaus Schwab is for politicians what L Ron Hubbard was for movie stars and he has called for the abolition of small farms in Europe. To help fight Climate Change, of course. The truth, as I see it, is they first want to abolish any independence from their control. Then they want to abolish health.
In my younger years I never really paid much attention to politics, (especially local) naively thinking , I suppose, that those in their elected positions would serve the betterment of the public. Of course reality set in and one has to wonder when the craziness will eventually end. It is informative articles like this and others of The Current, not to mention the great input that the commentors make that has helped to open my eyes even further. After hearing this latest decision that the County Board of Supervisors has made I can only wonder about our future in S.B. Is there reason to think that a recall of certain parties could be in order or would that be too costly and have the effect of spitting in the wind?
Good question about recall. I don't know what it would cost, but certainly writes like Andy Caldwell, Mike Stoker, Brent Zepke or Bonnie Donovan would. I feel the same way about politics. Btw, I enjoy seeing you here and get a lot out of your comments.
The crisis facing Santa Barbara County with the passage of the Climate Action Plan (CAP) is part of a much larger problem facing our State, Nation and World as a whole. It's the cancer of Marxist Socialism that eventually leads to Communism. Let's be clear. Our local Democrat Leaders are doing the bidding of the Globalist Marxist's whether they know it or not. One of the methods of their unrestricted warfare to destroy Western Democracies is to drive a stake through heartbeat of the American economy. Programs such as the CAP serve to do just that by demonizing CO2 (a vital element for life on earth) and regulating it to extinction. They are creating "grift industries" to empower their narrative, ideology and movement. It's a brilliant, yet sinister, movement that slowly grinds away at our Capitalist-driven economy and "redistributes" resources and wealth to their self-imposed industry (and cronies) and will lead our nation right off a fiscal cliff. In the process, the "Gatekeepers" will continue to accumulate wealth and power through their "rightful position" (John Kerry's proclamation comes to mind) while the general population is sent on a fast-track to serfdom.
0.04%! That is the constituent contribution of CO2 in our atmosphere. It is NOT the "control knob" for climate change as these grifters and our politicians would like you to believe. As a whole our society needs to have frank and honest discussions about the costs of eliminating CO2 without an effective backup plan. Wind and solar aren't scalable to the degree of fossil fuel energy. They require intense energy in their production, manufacturing and implementation. They are an intermittent source that is unreliable and hard on the grid when scaling up. And without government subsidies propping up these industries, they would be a tiny fraction of what they are today. We need to educate and mentally arm ourselves about the benefits of cheap and clean fossil fuel production, the science behind it and the negative socio-political impacts that would be incurred with it's elimination. We need to confront these deceptive policies and the policy makers that give it oxygen and hold them accountable. Until then, we will continue to see our politicians recklessly steer us towards a dystopian world we may no longer find recognizable and reversible.
I read this informed article by Mr. Stoker titled "Has Santa Barbara’s Dark Regulatory Side Returned?"
As I have stated here I had a "Sit Down" Meeting with Mr. Stoker to "Inform" him WHO was here and the devastating events that have occurred here in Santa Barbara that I have personally witnessed and have been involved with. Mr. Stoker now knows of the seriousness of these events, and I quote from his article of today as follows>>
"I am a big fan of the good vs. evil stories. Whether ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or ‘Star Wars,’ the story is always about good vs. evil, the force vs the dark side, whether righteousness prevails over sinister intentions. And there are always sequels. Just when you thought that good had prevailed and evil was destroyed, years later lying dormant, the evil comes back stronger than ever. I’m afraid that may be what just happened in Santa Barbara County."
Mr. Stoker has hit the "Nail on the Head" and the real title should read as follows>>>
"The Dark Side of Evil is here in Santa Barbara."
I have seen and witnessed the Dark Side of Evil here in Santa Barbara. I am going to leave it at that.
I have done all that I can. It is up to the Folks here to continue on. There are many ways to uncover
and to address what has been going on in Santa Barbara for some time. It is not just voting.
For those that are recent to SB Current I again direct you attention to a past article that explained
this Evil here in Santa Barbara and I will leave you with former FBI Executive Tom Parkers Article
"Perceptions of Political Corruption Too Often the Harbingers of Stark Reality" and I quote from same>
"Perceptions are too often the harbingers of stark reality. This is especially true when it comes to questioning the ethics or illicit acts of local government officials. While spending nearly 25 years in the FBI and convicting a number of local, state, and federal officials on corruption charges, it did not take long for my colleagues and I to learn how to spot those who had crossed the bright line into unethical, and sometimes corrupt, behavior. In most cases, worrisome perceptions had run rampant in the community that something was wrong. For those of you who may not have knowingly experienced such behavior in your own community, and for purposes of this article, let me give you a quick homegrown lesson in what that malfeasance smells like."
Let me be very clear to you all here. You have the Smell of Evil in this town and it is time that you address it by action and not by words. I have.
"To keep doing the same thing and expect different results is the definition of insanity," attributed to Albert Einstein, comes to mind when I hear of multi-year plans to eliminate the oil and gas industries. How is running the environmentally, friendly, well financed, Exxon out of the county working out?
maybe it was considered,and not mentioned, but VSFB. Increase in launches, work, people...more GHG. Maybe they considered this when looking at their proposed goals. if not, then it should be. If we want that animal to keep growing and providing and we want to keep the environment in good conditions, then yeah, find the cuts in other sectors/areas.
My understanding is we don't have enough electricity available to support electric vehicles en mas at this time. Any mandate would be self-defeating without the electricity in place to support it. My husband is on his second Tesla and just loves the car and the idea. he is retired and can easily plan destinations without a time restraint. Doralee jacobson
Thank you, Mike. What a fitting column for Labor Day! Forget those gas powered parties today! No grilled carne asada, hot dogs or marshmallows for you! Try it and you'll be in jail begging for some microwaved insects to celebrate with.
Das Williams, Joan Hartmann, Laura Capps. It doesn't get stupider - or more ambitious - than those three. I have to hand it to The Das, though. He's still around, still talking about the good work he needs to do for Santa Barbara, still referring to himself in the mythological third person. As he was quoted in The Independent's piece: “contrary to popular belief, this is not just Das sitting in a room somewhere coming up with all these things” it is “more than a plan”; it is a “community-driven vision for a more equitable and resilient future, and therefore is fundamentally ambitious and transformative.” Phew! Was that a cow fart or just The Das blowing Greenhouse Gas?
But here's what I'm waiting for: their explanation as to how all the building they want in this county can be accomplished with all the emission reduction they're planning.
Joan Hartman has said “We're in a serious crisis for human life.” She's right. If they keep spending our money on this Green nonsense we won't have anything leftover for essentials - like food, healthcare and housing.
Btw, I am not a Republican saying this. I was always a Democrat until 2016 when I saw that Trump was much more aligned with my values than what the Democratic Party had become. I left the Dem Party. I didn't become a Republican. Why? The Democratic Party has become tyrannically insane because it is the only party in California. So it has attracted evil megalomaniacs because they see an opportunity in its dominance. Had it been the Republican Party in total power here, I believe we would be seeing equally awful politicians, just Republicans, not Democrats. We don't need Republicans in total power here, we need a two party system again and I don't see that happening until the media monopoly ends. I optimistically think that's going to happen with the next generation because the young people I talk to don't read establishment newspapers or watch establishment news stations. I think the war that has started between dictatorships like Macron's and Pavel or Brazil's and Elon is a sign of how unimportant traditional media is becoming.
Speaking of "establishment newspapers," you must read the NYT article titled, "How California Became the New Center of Political Corruption." Labeled a political tragedy of the once highly regarded Jose Huizar, who now is experiencing a downfall at LA City Hall. The FBI nabbed him accepting $1.8M in casino chips, luxury hotel stays, a box full of cash and prostitutes from Chinese developers. My mind flashed to the musical comedy, The Pajama Game," ... and the song, "Isn't it Grand How the Money Changes Hands." Put the title in the search browser and read the article for free via Yahoo. Being in government is all about money to many politicians. It has always been about money for some, history repeats itself.
I found this at a SB City hiring website: "With a THOUSAND full-time positions and HUNDREDS of part-time hourly positions, the City of Santa Barbara offers multiple opportunities to grow within the organization. Many of our management employees began their career with the City at the entry level." Of course, as an understudy you can go from "entry level" if you play your cards right to "management," all that's required is to have the smarts of Jed Clampett or Jethro Bodine, be a relative of someone already employed by the city and the desire to make money for your bosses. Yes, I'm interested! OK, you're hired!
Thank you, Bill. I get NYT free the way you said, I haven't paid for a copy since it took them 11 years to finally mail me a check they owed for a piece. Yes, the Grey Lady is notoriously bad about paying - shockeroo! I checked it out. Interesting how NYT is reporting a wee bit about the CA cesspool. I suspect it's them telling Kamala, “look how fast we made you a viable candidate - we can make you look like a joke even faster.”
It's incredible what Santa Barbara is turning itself into.
If you haven't watched Megyn Kelly's analysis of the Harris/Walz interview on YouTube, you'll find it fascinating. Search for "Megyn Kelly's Analysis of CNN's Softball Interview: Kamala Harris' Lies, Tim Walz's Ridiculous Spin."
Megyn's terrific. There are still good ones, like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Miranda Devine. Do you read my friend James Kunstler? He's one of the best.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/is-kamala-very-very-afraid?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2076970&post_id=148405812&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=e32x3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I'll check James Kunstler out, thanks for the info!
Kunstler and I are on the same wavelength when it comes to the "American Blob," as he calls it. And I refer to Trump as "The Equalizer," the person that will clean the blobs up <g>.
This fine article by Mr Stoker points out the dead machine of government regulators growing inexorably to feed itself and its dead government minions, with no regard to creating efficiencies in or allowing the private sector to create wealth, prosperity or growth. As the numbers show, Santa Barbara has about 200% more government employees and expenses for the same amount of people in our population compared to most other California cities, governments, and county governments. As I wrote a year ago, SB county government has an unfunded pension deficit of over $1 billion, and to put that in perspective, $1 billion means the county must extract 1,000 - million dollar homes from the private sector, and put that money into the pockets of government workers, regulators and pensioners who are not even working anymore. That’s our legacy from Salud Carbajal and any other spendthrift supervisors we elected to overwatch, and monitor our local county government . Our current supervisors basically function as pension managers for the government. Again the dead government machine grinds on with its main purpose to extract private wealth and transfer it to the unemployed county workers and to fund unneeded and unproductive programs that hinder development and hinder private prosperity as their main focus. Yes, government has a purpose to do those things we cannot do ourselves individually, but at this point, it’s the dead hand of government gone wild. Soon there will be no oil industry, no building industry, except for the rich) no manufacturing, no development.. Instead we will have government workers running everything and a few coffee shops for our children to work in. That is not the American dream. It is a socialist nightmare.
Yes Mr. Cole, the Democratic machine that runs our State and County has now successfully managed to employ a majority of local voters. Who in their right mind would ever vote against their employer?
This post looks familiar. Like exactly what you posted yesterday. Great posts should be reposted again and again for sure dude.
In the distant past, CO2 has been higher and it has been lower than it is today. In the distant past the temperature has been higher and it has been lower than it is today, all before man used fossil fuel. Yet today, the government funded climate geniuses have computer models that predict extinction of the human race if CO2 emissions are not reduced by massive government regulation, government growth, massive spending, inflation, destruction of small business, and large taxation. Earlier versions of climate computer models predicted massive loss of polar ice, sea level rise and snow free mountains by today. Remember An Inconvenient Truth? Yet this computer model doom has not happened. Computer models are no better than the integrity of the zealot writing the code or the midwit running the computer model. Unknown variables serve as model input parameters and can be chosen to provide just about any model output desired. Proof of this is the fact that previous computer models have been wrong. Am I supposed to now believe the models are accurate? No more than I now believe the CDC after lying to me about covid and those horrible injections. Both The CDC and the climate dummies have succeeded in expanding government size and that is what this is really all about.
They need an evil to fight against so they have a rationale to take our money and property and impose more and more control. Trump, Climate Change, Elon Musk, maybe their figure of evil will be Jeff Barton next.
Lots of drama Jeff. I don't think any models, projections, anything is saying the human race will become extinct from climate change.
Look up the word existential.
Funny. I knew what it means - but this is the example google gave me.
"relating to existence.
"the climate crisis is an existential threat to the world""
At least I'll be able to nap this afternoon. MIT says we won't all die.
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/will-climate-change-drive-humans-extinct-or-destroy-civilization
So, on the one hand climate change is advertised as an existential threat and your google search confirms that it is a threat to the world. Yet MIT claims that it will be super bad but will not be catastrophic to humanity. Google searches make people dumber not smarter. It is an easy way to find whatever shit you want to support whatever shit notion you might have. Try to get in touch with your inner John Thomas and observe and conclude on your own. You might find that it serves you better. Remember the best data says that it has gotten about 1 degree C hotter in the last 150 years or something like that. That is imperceptible. Yet I hear idiots saying it feels so hot now due to global warming and they surf the web and see pictures of burning forests. Do you feel that it is hotter? Do you think you can perceive fractions of a degree that it has warmed in your lifetime? As your favorite genius of our time might say this climate change business is malarkey.
This is the same MIT that claims that the covid vaccine is safe and effective and still maintains the same position. Most of our institutions of higher learning spew a lot of shit about covid and climate change. How many times do you have to be lied to before you question the source? It was not like this when I went to puppeteer school in the 1970's.
I won't dispute the science of any side of climate change. I was born six decades ago, human population was about 3 billion. Now it's over 8 billion, just in my lifetime that's 5 billion more mouths to feed, and house, and provide fresh water. Plus, every one of these additions to the population since 1960 requires the support system for their standard of living.
So how many people can the planet sustain?. You speak as if you know but you do not know. Who decides how many people is acceptable and what to do about it. Nobody knows nor should anyone have the power to act on population engineering. Especially when the motivation is provided by computer models which have not proven to be accurate. In fact the computer models have been wrong in every way. You my man, have been snowed.
I know what I know. If I had an aquarium with 30 fish and I added 50 more, I would have to figure out how to feed them.
We are the fish in the aquarium.
As a recent convert to climate believer, when asked what helped me to see the light I always go back to the fish agrument.
I go to Christ, feeding 8 billion from one fish.
More credible than the climate lunacy.
"other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
Funding this ethical monster is the ice tea and skittles of the real situation- the climate agenda is a fraud, Co2 is no a poison and out contribution to it is so miniscule it would be like a pristine Golden Gate Bridge with a grain of sand on it and we say "the bridge is dirty, we must clean it!" Whether or not we have funding for this asinine advance in the agenda is nearly irrelevant.
Existential crisis! Existential crisis!!! Santa Barbara can solve the climate crisis all on our own if we just try hard enough! And spend enough!!! Oh, and let’s not forget to keep packing ever more people into already-settled and developed neighborhoods! Because that’s the only way to be good people!!!
I suppose it’s asking too much to insist that our local pols and bureaucrats stop drama-queening about global challenges and get back to the local nitty gritty of filling in potholes. Just not glamorous enough for the likes of Joan, Laura and Das?
Btw, a story idea for any of the good writers here at SBCurrent: why on earth, in all the roadwork that’s being done around town, are the roads being refinished in black? Not gray, not even gray-black, but black-black? Santa Barbara’s streets have never been black before, but now miles and miles of them are being turned black. It looks awful — like Utica or Syracuse. And of course black roads get hot in the sun. I don’t remember voting for our roads and streets to be turned black. So which of our planners, bureaucrats or whatever made this decision? Why on earth was it made? And can we get back to roadage and streetage that looks like a little more like Santa Barbara?
Another story idea: is there any way to guesstimate how much money we’ve spent in recent years creating bike lanes that are largely unused? What a waste of time, money, effort and political willpower they represent. I often drive for miles without seeing any bicyclists at all using the bike lanes — Modoc, I’m especially thinking of you — yet it must have cost millions to construct them.
I say all the above as an old-style, pre “Global Warming” eco-nut, btw. One of the most tragic things about the Global Warming\Climate Change push is that it’s taken over to the point of supplanting the entire eco/enviro movement. There are many small, particular worthwhile things that we could do to make our lives a little more sane, relaxed and healthy, but amidst all the shrieking about Climate Change! Climate Change! they get no attention at all. It’s like a fat person who’s so obsessed, boring and domineering about the general topic of weight loss that he never gets around to taking any small, particular steps in the direction of living more healthily.
I belive in climate change - but I do agree that it's become the only 800 pound guerrilla in the room. All sorts of other topics and concerns have been swept off the table.
Yes, Sawbilly, if I weren't driving when I HAVE to get my mail in Santa Barbara proper , I would shut my eyes. It is so ugly anymore and so ridiculously set up Ditto on downtown Goleta!
I hate the black roads. Speaking of environmentalists before it became Big Green - remember Paul Watson? Ed Abbey?
“What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.” Quote from Richard Lindzen, a highly respected American Atmospheric Physicist and a retired, former MIT Professor of Meteorology.
Ever worked around scientists? First problem is most of scientists are Democrats outnumbering the more honest conservatives. The second problem is the Dems will lie to the public and only tell the real truth about the atmosphere between themselves. The chances of the general public hearing the truth about gasses is nil, unfortunately. The first thing to become aware of is the use of PPM (parts per million) versus percentages. As I have stated, 1PPM is equal to 0.0001%, very difficult to measure. A 100PPM change is 0.01% change, still tough to measure. Notice something ... the PPM numbers have a sense of being "large," a psychological trick. Let's go to 1000PM, oh my gosh, that's a huge number ... no it isn't, it's only a 0.1% change. See how the environmentalist like to play games using PPM ... they look like "big" numbers to the average brain, but to someone like me, I've used PPM's all my life in engineering work to define small drifts or changes in electrical parameters. If anyone indicates very low PPM changes due to atmospheric changes in gas levels, it's honest-to-goodness baloney. It's a big atmosphere out there and to define small PPM changes requires knowing the time of day and how measurements are made, so on and so forth. The general public is being hoodwinked like about everything else we are told by those in the environmental industry.
It is amazing how our elected officials in local government have seemingly put another nail in the coffin of private industry with laws or regulations, making it almost impossible to be profitable in SB County?
Talk about governmental overreach, since when is the environment a primary concern of locally elected politicians, isn’t that why we have an EPA?
It would seem now the government or businesses which are heavy funded by government (Cottage Hospital, UCSB, Dignity Health) are the largest employer in SB County. Is this by accident? Is private industry now extinct in SB County because of the cost of land and now because of the cost is the regulatory state? This is what we voted for when we elected radical environmentalists to the BOS…really?
It would not surprise me to find out this entire scheme was to collude and conspire against any and all companies in the petrochemical industry, what a shocker! What needs to happen, but I’m not sure it will, is private corporations need to ban together and sue the living daylights out of the County for unconstitutional abuse of authority for conspiring to put them out of business!
So let me get this straight, the County can’t seem to maintain our streets, roads and infrastructure by virtue of deferred maintenance and massive red ink but they plan to save us by protecting us from the environment? Man, that is a con only the lefty majority would believe!
Very interesting, thank you.
I’m curious about the Agricultural side.
After all between Gates & the Chinese buying up agricultural properties and Gates push for us to eat bugs along with implanting our food with mRNA drugs.
Would this be a long term play to drive local ag out of business?
Yeah, I know, conspiracy theory.
But we’ve seen too many conspiracies vine true over the last several years.
And we know our local government is a puppet regime run by someone else.
No you are right. Klaus Schwab is for politicians what L Ron Hubbard was for movie stars and he has called for the abolition of small farms in Europe. To help fight Climate Change, of course. The truth, as I see it, is they first want to abolish any independence from their control. Then they want to abolish health.
In my younger years I never really paid much attention to politics, (especially local) naively thinking , I suppose, that those in their elected positions would serve the betterment of the public. Of course reality set in and one has to wonder when the craziness will eventually end. It is informative articles like this and others of The Current, not to mention the great input that the commentors make that has helped to open my eyes even further. After hearing this latest decision that the County Board of Supervisors has made I can only wonder about our future in S.B. Is there reason to think that a recall of certain parties could be in order or would that be too costly and have the effect of spitting in the wind?
Good question about recall. I don't know what it would cost, but certainly writes like Andy Caldwell, Mike Stoker, Brent Zepke or Bonnie Donovan would. I feel the same way about politics. Btw, I enjoy seeing you here and get a lot out of your comments.
Thanks Polly. Right back at ya.
The crisis facing Santa Barbara County with the passage of the Climate Action Plan (CAP) is part of a much larger problem facing our State, Nation and World as a whole. It's the cancer of Marxist Socialism that eventually leads to Communism. Let's be clear. Our local Democrat Leaders are doing the bidding of the Globalist Marxist's whether they know it or not. One of the methods of their unrestricted warfare to destroy Western Democracies is to drive a stake through heartbeat of the American economy. Programs such as the CAP serve to do just that by demonizing CO2 (a vital element for life on earth) and regulating it to extinction. They are creating "grift industries" to empower their narrative, ideology and movement. It's a brilliant, yet sinister, movement that slowly grinds away at our Capitalist-driven economy and "redistributes" resources and wealth to their self-imposed industry (and cronies) and will lead our nation right off a fiscal cliff. In the process, the "Gatekeepers" will continue to accumulate wealth and power through their "rightful position" (John Kerry's proclamation comes to mind) while the general population is sent on a fast-track to serfdom.
0.04%! That is the constituent contribution of CO2 in our atmosphere. It is NOT the "control knob" for climate change as these grifters and our politicians would like you to believe. As a whole our society needs to have frank and honest discussions about the costs of eliminating CO2 without an effective backup plan. Wind and solar aren't scalable to the degree of fossil fuel energy. They require intense energy in their production, manufacturing and implementation. They are an intermittent source that is unreliable and hard on the grid when scaling up. And without government subsidies propping up these industries, they would be a tiny fraction of what they are today. We need to educate and mentally arm ourselves about the benefits of cheap and clean fossil fuel production, the science behind it and the negative socio-political impacts that would be incurred with it's elimination. We need to confront these deceptive policies and the policy makers that give it oxygen and hold them accountable. Until then, we will continue to see our politicians recklessly steer us towards a dystopian world we may no longer find recognizable and reversible.
A worthy read that explains California's self imposed energy dilemma and the politics behind it. Knowledge is power. This Substack is a worthy follow!
https://energysecurityfreedom.substack.com/p/california-is-headed-the-wrong-way?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=547933&post_id=148449187&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ddh1x&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Mike has been a great help a couple of times over the years and is a tireless advocate for sense over totalitarianism.
I read this informed article by Mr. Stoker titled "Has Santa Barbara’s Dark Regulatory Side Returned?"
As I have stated here I had a "Sit Down" Meeting with Mr. Stoker to "Inform" him WHO was here and the devastating events that have occurred here in Santa Barbara that I have personally witnessed and have been involved with. Mr. Stoker now knows of the seriousness of these events, and I quote from his article of today as follows>>
"I am a big fan of the good vs. evil stories. Whether ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or ‘Star Wars,’ the story is always about good vs. evil, the force vs the dark side, whether righteousness prevails over sinister intentions. And there are always sequels. Just when you thought that good had prevailed and evil was destroyed, years later lying dormant, the evil comes back stronger than ever. I’m afraid that may be what just happened in Santa Barbara County."
Mr. Stoker has hit the "Nail on the Head" and the real title should read as follows>>>
"The Dark Side of Evil is here in Santa Barbara."
I have seen and witnessed the Dark Side of Evil here in Santa Barbara. I am going to leave it at that.
I have done all that I can. It is up to the Folks here to continue on. There are many ways to uncover
and to address what has been going on in Santa Barbara for some time. It is not just voting.
For those that are recent to SB Current I again direct you attention to a past article that explained
this Evil here in Santa Barbara and I will leave you with former FBI Executive Tom Parkers Article
"Perceptions of Political Corruption Too Often the Harbingers of Stark Reality" and I quote from same>
https://www.independent.com/2020/02/22/perceptions-of-political-corruption/
"Perceptions are too often the harbingers of stark reality. This is especially true when it comes to questioning the ethics or illicit acts of local government officials. While spending nearly 25 years in the FBI and convicting a number of local, state, and federal officials on corruption charges, it did not take long for my colleagues and I to learn how to spot those who had crossed the bright line into unethical, and sometimes corrupt, behavior. In most cases, worrisome perceptions had run rampant in the community that something was wrong. For those of you who may not have knowingly experienced such behavior in your own community, and for purposes of this article, let me give you a quick homegrown lesson in what that malfeasance smells like."
Let me be very clear to you all here. You have the Smell of Evil in this town and it is time that you address it by action and not by words. I have.
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family.
S.2 Yes you can say that again I as they say in the Military
"ROGER THAT"
"To keep doing the same thing and expect different results is the definition of insanity," attributed to Albert Einstein, comes to mind when I hear of multi-year plans to eliminate the oil and gas industries. How is running the environmentally, friendly, well financed, Exxon out of the county working out?
maybe it was considered,and not mentioned, but VSFB. Increase in launches, work, people...more GHG. Maybe they considered this when looking at their proposed goals. if not, then it should be. If we want that animal to keep growing and providing and we want to keep the environment in good conditions, then yeah, find the cuts in other sectors/areas.
My understanding is we don't have enough electricity available to support electric vehicles en mas at this time. Any mandate would be self-defeating without the electricity in place to support it. My husband is on his second Tesla and just loves the car and the idea. he is retired and can easily plan destinations without a time restraint. Doralee jacobson