Well said, Mr. Schulte. It is easy to figure out how these "planners" reached their conclusions though. Attend any UCSB class on "environmental sustainability" and you'll find a platoon of 20-somethings who've never worked anywhere nor bought any land nor developed a property, ready and most certainly willing to explain what you must do, where you must live, and where you must work in order to "save" the environment. They know it all and at such a young age. Go figure!
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." ~Mark Twain
Sacramento = Liberal Democrats = Assembly Gregg Hart and Senator Monique Limon.
The "state" who is doing this to us, actually has names and faces.
If we do not hold our own elected state representatives Hart and Limon accountable by our own votes, why shouldn't they continue to do what they are doing?
There is truth in all the comments. There's enough stupid to go around. We've lost America. And it's rotting faster everyday. We base everything on politics as though the decline of our country only effects someone who thinks left or right. The devastation taking place from the uncontrollable human invasion knows no political party. When a group of illegal punks can beat up policeman, do no jail time, give our country the finger and walk the streets again the next day you know it's over. Climate change is bogus. Always has been. Now we're learning the thermometers to check the earths temperature are in the cities and on our sidewalks. Now that makes sense. And it does if you want to fool the world. Our FBI says China is coming after us. Duh! The world knows we have a rudderless ship with holes in it. Just wait when the first domestic terrorist attack takes place, courtesy of the open border. Democrats will die too. My blood boils.
"Man is preventing Earth from returning to her normal temperature"
🤔 brian, I know you are being rhetorical, but one part of your statement jumps out at me. I will ask you the same questions I ask anyone who I discuss climate change with:
What do you believe to be "normal" temperature? When did it ("normal" temperature) exist?? "Normal" for what or whom?? If we were powerful enough to change the climate on a planetary scale (spoiler: we are not, the sun is), what would be our goal temperature? Why? more life? less life?
These are serious questions and must be answered before we take up the hubris of believing we can do things that are way way above our pay grade as a temporary ruling species on this planet.
“In summary: California wants to be the leader is reducing our carbon footprint by adding millions more carbon boots on the ground; building more houses but not improving our infrastructure; releasing more carbon in the air by increasing traffic on our roads; stop using natural gas and go all-electric, which requires coal to produce the power.“
These are people who have never built a thing in their lives. They are virtue signaling uniparty legislators. Demonizing their opponents, getting elected and legislating virtue is all they know how to do.
So why not pass legislation that demands stack&pack housing or outlaw fossil fuel use and promote we all must buy unaffordable EV’s?
Those are all shiny objects that sound good to their rich donors and brainwashed stupid constituents, and it works! It gets them elected.
Infrastructure is hidden out of sight, and requires hiring thousands upon thousands of “deplorables” (manly men with shovels and wheelbarrows who tend to vote republican) for over a decade to fulfill a vision that won’t be completed until long after the legislators are out of office.
There was an article in the SB Paper from 1897. Guess what it complained about, yep, lack of housing, lack of affordable housing.
People have short memories.
They do not recall in the 70s that a pandemic forced out a Republican and immediately after a Democrat was voted in we saw double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, gas shortages, supply chain issues, rushed vaccines that injured people, etc...
it is is not right to live in SB, my father drive 100 miles every day because we could not afford to live near his work.
When I was younger I commuted to Santa Maria for work. I lived in the Valley where it was more affordable.
I did not expect the government to use your money to subsidize my housing.
Excellent summary of the insanity that we have all been watching over the years, Mr. Schulte! Total insanity at its best! Leave it to CA to lead the way in outrageous government decisions that directly affect and hurt the citizens of the state. I'm so over CALIF.....
The Housing Regulations are written by the executive branch of our government in Sacraments. In order to put housing into a more rational plan, we need to change the representation in both the legislature and the Governor's office. Our protesting in either the county or city does us no good.
Responding to the low polling priority for environmental" issues, the local Community Environmental Center has opened a large State Street store-front presence to help train new activists in both English and Spanish.
Did our tax dollar-funded Biden "Inflation Recovery Act", but in fact used primarily to fund new green initiatives, help support this new downtown green activism center? Or is this a purely local grass roots funding effort. https://cecsb.org/press-releases/environmental-hub-grand-opening
Philosophy Prof Joe White had a lecture at the Victoria Theater on the difference between “stupid and ignorant”. We elect both stupid and ignorant who too often appoint the same. The vote on adopting the Housing growth plan was as expected: Capps against in a visual vote to protect Goleta.
Questions: Now will the three approving Supervisors (Joan Hartman, Das, Steve) mandate via funding to improve and maintain infrastructure for the safety of existing residents by cutting County payroll in half? Will all new housing be required by adoption of an ordinance to be assessed and also pay property taxes? Answers: No to both questions. New South County housing is at the expense of existing taxed property owners, and at the safety expense of all South County residents.
So Henry - who are you faulting for all these ridiculous ‘improvements’ ? The ‘Stupid in Sacramento’? ‘Old Hippies’? Jerry Brown? Gavin Newsom? Misplaced blame! Instead, blame it on the dopes who keep voting liberal politicians into office!
I’m sure you’ve heard the story of the frog and the snake. A frog came to a stream but couldn’t get across. A snake came along and said ‘Hop on my back, I’ll take you across’. The frog said ‘I’m afraid you’ll eat me’ The snake said “I promise not to eat you”, so the frog got on the snake’s back. When they got across the stream the snake grabbed the frog and started to eat him. The frog said “You promised not to eat me!” and the snake said “Hey! I’m a snake! That’s what snakes do!”
What’s the moral of the story? Keep voting in the Commie-Dems - no matter how they spin it, that’s what Democrats do - it’s in their DNA. They’re more interested in reveling in their righteousness than the wants and desirers of the people.
When I was a kid my pals and I would get together and decide if we were going to play baseball or football. Guess who decided? The majority! There was always some loser who wanted ring around the rosey, but . . . forget it! Minority interests should be ‘considered’, but their wants and desires should be subjugated to the majority.
What we need in Sacramento are some hard-headed, practical Americans running the show who understand that you can’t please everybody.
Good article. Although it should be pointed out both candidates for president in 2024 think Newsom is the greatest thing since slice bread. Trump, I kid you not, said the following about Newsom: "I use to get along great with him. He was very nice to me. Said the greatest things. This is why I could never hit him because he was so nice to me."
First, Trump is obviously deranged because Newson has always treated Trump like a punching bag. Second,Trump is also a feeble-minded idiot to refrain from criticizing Newsom, maybe the worst governor in the US, because he was nice to him. Psychologically, there's something very wrong with someone who craves approval as much as Trump..
Steve Lavagnino IS a liberal, always was like Mitt Romney, a waffler and fence sitter. Bob Nelson is close behind. The Republicans ALWAYS compromise their values and join the Democrats, it is almost NEVER the other way around. You want to know why Califirnia sucks and is a disaster, look no further than the Republicans, they sold their soul at the local level like MAYOR Randy Rowse (once a Republican, now a sell out). Or better yet, look to another Republican former Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado who gave California the jungle primaries. You cannot clap with one hand. Blaming all of California's problems on the liberals alone is not only sheer stupidity, but utter nonsense. I've said this before and sounds like it needs to be repeatedly reiterated: the Republicans AND the Democrats are the two sides of the same political coin. They're the parasitic political class that works for themselves, not the people. Get rid of the parties and focus on solving the actual issues. Vote for candidates that speak to the actual issues, not to political racketeering through political parties.
Poornima,very well said! I’m a card-carrying Republican about 2 steps to the right of John Wayne, but I agree with you - some Republicans are wobbly, but I guess they’re figuring half a loaf is better than none. The Commie-Dems appeal to a lot of misguided voters - I suppose that’s why they keep getting voted into office.
What we know is that Man is basing its Climate Change rhetoric based upon 130 years of data out of millions of years.
The Climate Czars do not know what normal is, they know how to inspire fear and generate money from their made up rhetoric.
Geologists have confirmed there were no polar ice caps prior to the ice age. Meaning the planet was warmer than it is today.
Scientists have found that most of the Earth was covered in plants and that the CO2 & Methane levels were higher than today.
Scientists believe the Earth during the Jurassic period was about 1.5 degree warmer with little temperature change extended beyond the equator. Basically SB weather
Either way man cannot determine what “normal” is because we have not been around for millions of years tracking mother Earths changes.
Clean Air Act did remove a great deal of particulate matter from the atmosphere, which now means more sunlight reaches our formerly smoggy cities and towns.
Did the consequence of our now cleaner air create these alleged higher reported ground temperatures? Or are we now just back to earth's good old normal at her intended temperatures.
They suggest we now blast particulate matter back into the atmosphere, so we can cool down this alleged Climate Change™. My head spins.
Well said, Mr. Schulte. It is easy to figure out how these "planners" reached their conclusions though. Attend any UCSB class on "environmental sustainability" and you'll find a platoon of 20-somethings who've never worked anywhere nor bought any land nor developed a property, ready and most certainly willing to explain what you must do, where you must live, and where you must work in order to "save" the environment. They know it all and at such a young age. Go figure!
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." ~Mark Twain
Sacramento = Liberal Democrats = Assembly Gregg Hart and Senator Monique Limon.
The "state" who is doing this to us, actually has names and faces.
If we do not hold our own elected state representatives Hart and Limon accountable by our own votes, why shouldn't they continue to do what they are doing?
There is truth in all the comments. There's enough stupid to go around. We've lost America. And it's rotting faster everyday. We base everything on politics as though the decline of our country only effects someone who thinks left or right. The devastation taking place from the uncontrollable human invasion knows no political party. When a group of illegal punks can beat up policeman, do no jail time, give our country the finger and walk the streets again the next day you know it's over. Climate change is bogus. Always has been. Now we're learning the thermometers to check the earths temperature are in the cities and on our sidewalks. Now that makes sense. And it does if you want to fool the world. Our FBI says China is coming after us. Duh! The world knows we have a rudderless ship with holes in it. Just wait when the first domestic terrorist attack takes place, courtesy of the open border. Democrats will die too. My blood boils.
Climate Change driven by politicians in the name of greed.
Plants create oxygen. Plants need CO2 to live.
Government wants to kill greenery and plants thereby reducing the oxygen in the atmosphere.
Jurassic era the planet was completely green with no polar ice caps and CO2 levels were much higher
Today we have polar ice.
Today CO2 makes up 0.4% of the atmosphere
Earth is trying to warm up back to where she was full of life.
Man is preventing Earth from returning to her normal temperature.
We use 130 years of data out of millions of years
Man, greed, will be the death of this planet.
To go green fracking, slave labor, burning of coal & rubber is required to create unreliable solar panels and EVs.
But Americans don’t see the pollution and slavers so in their minds it doesn’t exist.
Americans don’t ask questions of where did that EV or solar panel come from.
"Man is preventing Earth from returning to her normal temperature"
🤔 brian, I know you are being rhetorical, but one part of your statement jumps out at me. I will ask you the same questions I ask anyone who I discuss climate change with:
What do you believe to be "normal" temperature? When did it ("normal" temperature) exist?? "Normal" for what or whom?? If we were powerful enough to change the climate on a planetary scale (spoiler: we are not, the sun is), what would be our goal temperature? Why? more life? less life?
These are serious questions and must be answered before we take up the hubris of believing we can do things that are way way above our pay grade as a temporary ruling species on this planet.
And to say nothing of the additional strain to our power grid and resultant rolling blackouts.
“In summary: California wants to be the leader is reducing our carbon footprint by adding millions more carbon boots on the ground; building more houses but not improving our infrastructure; releasing more carbon in the air by increasing traffic on our roads; stop using natural gas and go all-electric, which requires coal to produce the power.“
These are people who have never built a thing in their lives. They are virtue signaling uniparty legislators. Demonizing their opponents, getting elected and legislating virtue is all they know how to do.
So why not pass legislation that demands stack&pack housing or outlaw fossil fuel use and promote we all must buy unaffordable EV’s?
Those are all shiny objects that sound good to their rich donors and brainwashed stupid constituents, and it works! It gets them elected.
Infrastructure is hidden out of sight, and requires hiring thousands upon thousands of “deplorables” (manly men with shovels and wheelbarrows who tend to vote republican) for over a decade to fulfill a vision that won’t be completed until long after the legislators are out of office.
Simply not gonna happen.
There was an article in the SB Paper from 1897. Guess what it complained about, yep, lack of housing, lack of affordable housing.
People have short memories.
They do not recall in the 70s that a pandemic forced out a Republican and immediately after a Democrat was voted in we saw double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, gas shortages, supply chain issues, rushed vaccines that injured people, etc...
it is is not right to live in SB, my father drive 100 miles every day because we could not afford to live near his work.
When I was younger I commuted to Santa Maria for work. I lived in the Valley where it was more affordable.
I did not expect the government to use your money to subsidize my housing.
Excellent summary of the insanity that we have all been watching over the years, Mr. Schulte! Total insanity at its best! Leave it to CA to lead the way in outrageous government decisions that directly affect and hurt the citizens of the state. I'm so over CALIF.....
The Housing Regulations are written by the executive branch of our government in Sacraments. In order to put housing into a more rational plan, we need to change the representation in both the legislature and the Governor's office. Our protesting in either the county or city does us no good.
Responding to the low polling priority for environmental" issues, the local Community Environmental Center has opened a large State Street store-front presence to help train new activists in both English and Spanish.
Did our tax dollar-funded Biden "Inflation Recovery Act", but in fact used primarily to fund new green initiatives, help support this new downtown green activism center? Or is this a purely local grass roots funding effort. https://cecsb.org/press-releases/environmental-hub-grand-opening
Philosophy Prof Joe White had a lecture at the Victoria Theater on the difference between “stupid and ignorant”. We elect both stupid and ignorant who too often appoint the same. The vote on adopting the Housing growth plan was as expected: Capps against in a visual vote to protect Goleta.
Questions: Now will the three approving Supervisors (Joan Hartman, Das, Steve) mandate via funding to improve and maintain infrastructure for the safety of existing residents by cutting County payroll in half? Will all new housing be required by adoption of an ordinance to be assessed and also pay property taxes? Answers: No to both questions. New South County housing is at the expense of existing taxed property owners, and at the safety expense of all South County residents.
So Henry - who are you faulting for all these ridiculous ‘improvements’ ? The ‘Stupid in Sacramento’? ‘Old Hippies’? Jerry Brown? Gavin Newsom? Misplaced blame! Instead, blame it on the dopes who keep voting liberal politicians into office!
I’m sure you’ve heard the story of the frog and the snake. A frog came to a stream but couldn’t get across. A snake came along and said ‘Hop on my back, I’ll take you across’. The frog said ‘I’m afraid you’ll eat me’ The snake said “I promise not to eat you”, so the frog got on the snake’s back. When they got across the stream the snake grabbed the frog and started to eat him. The frog said “You promised not to eat me!” and the snake said “Hey! I’m a snake! That’s what snakes do!”
What’s the moral of the story? Keep voting in the Commie-Dems - no matter how they spin it, that’s what Democrats do - it’s in their DNA. They’re more interested in reveling in their righteousness than the wants and desirers of the people.
When I was a kid my pals and I would get together and decide if we were going to play baseball or football. Guess who decided? The majority! There was always some loser who wanted ring around the rosey, but . . . forget it! Minority interests should be ‘considered’, but their wants and desires should be subjugated to the majority.
What we need in Sacramento are some hard-headed, practical Americans running the show who understand that you can’t please everybody.
Good article. Although it should be pointed out both candidates for president in 2024 think Newsom is the greatest thing since slice bread. Trump, I kid you not, said the following about Newsom: "I use to get along great with him. He was very nice to me. Said the greatest things. This is why I could never hit him because he was so nice to me."
First, Trump is obviously deranged because Newson has always treated Trump like a punching bag. Second,Trump is also a feeble-minded idiot to refrain from criticizing Newsom, maybe the worst governor in the US, because he was nice to him. Psychologically, there's something very wrong with someone who craves approval as much as Trump..
Flattery will get anyone praise (& a position) from Trump, who has an ego-need to be liked.
Steve Lavagnino IS a liberal, always was like Mitt Romney, a waffler and fence sitter. Bob Nelson is close behind. The Republicans ALWAYS compromise their values and join the Democrats, it is almost NEVER the other way around. You want to know why Califirnia sucks and is a disaster, look no further than the Republicans, they sold their soul at the local level like MAYOR Randy Rowse (once a Republican, now a sell out). Or better yet, look to another Republican former Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado who gave California the jungle primaries. You cannot clap with one hand. Blaming all of California's problems on the liberals alone is not only sheer stupidity, but utter nonsense. I've said this before and sounds like it needs to be repeatedly reiterated: the Republicans AND the Democrats are the two sides of the same political coin. They're the parasitic political class that works for themselves, not the people. Get rid of the parties and focus on solving the actual issues. Vote for candidates that speak to the actual issues, not to political racketeering through political parties.
Poornima,very well said! I’m a card-carrying Republican about 2 steps to the right of John Wayne, but I agree with you - some Republicans are wobbly, but I guess they’re figuring half a loaf is better than none. The Commie-Dems appeal to a lot of misguided voters - I suppose that’s why they keep getting voted into office.
That is the conundrum. What is “normal”.
What we know is that Man is basing its Climate Change rhetoric based upon 130 years of data out of millions of years.
The Climate Czars do not know what normal is, they know how to inspire fear and generate money from their made up rhetoric.
Geologists have confirmed there were no polar ice caps prior to the ice age. Meaning the planet was warmer than it is today.
Scientists have found that most of the Earth was covered in plants and that the CO2 & Methane levels were higher than today.
Scientists believe the Earth during the Jurassic period was about 1.5 degree warmer with little temperature change extended beyond the equator. Basically SB weather
Either way man cannot determine what “normal” is because we have not been around for millions of years tracking mother Earths changes.
Clean Air Act did remove a great deal of particulate matter from the atmosphere, which now means more sunlight reaches our formerly smoggy cities and towns.
Did the consequence of our now cleaner air create these alleged higher reported ground temperatures? Or are we now just back to earth's good old normal at her intended temperatures.
They suggest we now blast particulate matter back into the atmosphere, so we can cool down this alleged Climate Change™. My head spins.
Well said. Unless the border is closed, the more we build the more will come.
Question for environmentalist: do you think the border crossers will be driving EVs?