While the local zero tolerance crowd screams the loudest constantly about cruise ships destroying our local environment, it is instructional to track all global shipping in real time on the website Marine Traffic. There you learn cruises ships in fact are few and far between in our local waters - they are the blue markers on the websites global map showing passenger vessels tracked world wide.
The bulk of global marine traffic consists of cargo ships, tankers, and no small numbers of fishing vessels. I suggest our local save the whales crowd needs to protest buying more junk from China, whose ocean trade routes contribute a large part of the current ocean traffic plying our oceans 24/7/365.
And particularly to stop demanding we produce no (zero tolerance) domestic fuel supplies, which in turn requires energy sources must be shipped in from farther away. We now have common recognition locally produced "green energy" sourcing has always been only a pipe dream; while dreaming erroneously there shall be no more local pipelines, ever and forever. Cognitive dissonance.
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) published a video having to do with green house gas over 20 years ago. PH.D. types were walking volcanoes and showing how one major eruption produced more GHG then all of mankind produced with civilization in one year.
Now fast forward to Kilauea on the big island of the Hawaiian chain. It has been on a eruption cycle of over 30 years. Just in the last year it has produced more GHG than all of the volcanoes world wide. Some of them have been serious large scale eruptions within the past decade. This means that one volcano has produced more GHG in just the past decade then industry has produced in well over 30 years (now add in the other eruptions and you see the issue). The speed good old nature has done this is amazing.
Ignore the great charts of this article. Ignore the fact that the voters gave Sacramento both the power and dollars to do proper forest management. Forget that the outcome of Gov. Newsom failures in Calif. forest management has cost lives, million if not billions of damaged homes and businesses, and disruption of lives and hey, how about those insurance costs.
What are you going to do now that nature has dwarfed all of the one party system in Sacramento?
There is so much more to add into this mix solar, wind farms, toxic batteries, etc.
Just remember Ms. Capps and friends are small potatoes in the equation but then so are the radicalized EPA under past administrations. There is where serious damage to both the nation and the world is.
Now with AI where is the estimates of particulate air matter with the natives pre-Cabrillo? Where is the estimates of hydrocarbon emissions good old nature was pumping into the air both in the channel and on land up and down the coast pre-Cabrillo?
There is a whole missing dimension that the sky is falling groups have yet to address.
"Kilauea on the big island of the Hawaiian chain. It has been on a eruption cycle of over 30 years. Just in the last year it has produced more GHG than all of the volcanoes world wide"
is not true. Do your own background check. From Grok (What seems to be a Current favorite) "The claim that Kīlauea’s emissions exceed those of all volcanoes worldwide may be rooted in misinformation campaigns that exaggerate volcanic contributions to climate change to downplay human impacts."
Sorry Dr. Barton. I'm don't have info on volcano spewage memorized. But seems like you like to pick me out - did you ask your team for where they get their numbers? I don't think Andy had all his memorized.
Plus seems like most of the Current folks like Grok. I thought it was an olive branch.
We know that CO2 has been higher and lower than it is now but mostly it has been higher, much higher all before man walked the planet. We also know that it has been hotter and colder than it is now but mostly it has been hotter all before man walked the planet. We also know that volcanoes and meteorite impacts are major drivers of large climate swings and mass extinctions of the past. But current climate hysteria is based on only one thing and that is CO2. Furthermore, since it is impossible to predict how CO2 will affect the climate in the distant future, computer models are used to predict. Think of computer models as cartoons which simplify the science based on assumptions. Think Wile E Coyote, super genius. No climate models can account for the possibility of meteorite impacts or volcanism yet these are major drivers of climate change. To believe the global warming hoax that climate change is eminent, an exestential threat and due solely to fossil fuel is to ignore much of what we know drives large climate swings and mass extinctions. It is however a hell of a way to make money
Here’s something you don’t often hear in climate discussions: human greenhouse gas emissions may have actually prevented a mass extinction. According to long-term Milankovitch cycles, we should already be drifting into a new ice age. However, if atmospheric CO₂ drops below 180 parts per million, photosynthesis stops—and with it, almost all life on Earth. It’s entirely possible that human activity prevented that dip and kept Earth habitable. The highest graded, most habitable planet outside of Earth is Mars. The last time I checked, there was no human involvement, and the system was running on its own, resulting in runaway cooling. I highly doubt most common-sense people would prefer mass human extinction to the meaningless 400 ppm we sit at now. It would be fantastic if we could interview one of our ancestors about how great the last mini ice age was and the resulting famine.
Out of the trillions of planets in the universe, only one is known to have avoided both runaway cooling and runaway heating. However, Earth is still cosmologically young. Thus, the notion that we should just “let nature take its course” seems to defy the odds. The Universe doesn’t guarantee survival—it simply follows physics. This reflects the smart forestry management advocacy in this article.
Now envision a future where nuclear reactors—ideally fusion—power CO₂ scrubbers throughout the developed world. Like a thermostat, we could control greenhouse gas levels: keep the ice caps intact, prevent glacial extinction cycles, and avoid runaway warming. We could actively dampen the variability swing with science. Volcano spikes CO₂? Adjust it down. Cycle bringing us to an ice age, dial it up. No more fretting over fuel emissions. This is precisely the kind of system we would need to terraform Mars—or sustain Earth long-term.
Let the purple-haired protestors demand a return to cave life. I’d rather we use our brains, science, and engineering to take control of our future. Last time I checked, most people didn't argue against building houses equipped with roofs, electricity, heating, cooling, plumbing, and so on, preferring instead to live outside and let nature take its natural course of cooling and heating us without human interaction. Climate control over its variability is solvable. We just need to act like it.
I do keep pondering the safety of nuclear plants. They require billions of cool water and produce toxic fallout. Maybe in time our resources can produce something like crystals to produce power, like found in science fiction, future, possibilities.
Nuclear plants do require a significant amount of cooling water, and 99.99999% of that water is excluded from the radioactive loop. The water within that loop is consistently contained. We have an abundance of seawater available, and it recirculates continuously. Furthermore, if we connect to a desalination plant, the byproduct brine can also be utilized for cooling. The byproduct sodium can be used to produce sodium-ion batteries for renewable energy storage.
Sodium-ion batteries are also not explosive or highly flammable like lithium-ion batteries. Granted, they don't have the same energy density today, but that could change with more research and development. Either way, since salt is inexpensive, why not use more?
Your major misconception here is about fallout. Nuclear plants DO NOT create fallout. Only two incidents of isolated minor fallout from nuclear plants have occurred in history: Chernobyl and Fukushima. A modern nuclear plant today has safety features built in to prevent these cases with 99.999999% certainty.
Nuclear energy is safe. The waste produced over the entire life of a plant can fit into a 1-acre concrete and lead-lined containment. Comparing that to the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by fossil fuel plants, it’s literally nothing.
Colorless, odorless, non toxic, essential to life plant food. I have said this before but it is disingenuous to call CO2 carbon. It is only to invoke images of dirty toxic pollution that causes black lung.
Democrat logic: we are supposed to eat more plant food, at the same time we are asked to starve plants out of their own primary nutritional sources.
Produce less C02, in order to consume more C02. Do they ever track their own cognitive dissonance? Covid will kill you but the covid shots will kill you even more. Open borders are humanitarian, while unfettered cartel traffic destroys even more lives. Spend now in order to protect the future for our grandchildren, who now must spend their tomorrows paying off today's debts...............
So, maybe it's not all cow flatulence, Ha! Humans too contribute approximately 0.2-3 gallons per day. Maybe that's why Gates, after all he is a god, says 3/4ths of the human population and cattle must be eliminated. Surely he is the smartest one and must know.....covid tried, sigh...
Another home run for Mr Caldwell. While people have been alarmed at 4million acres burning in CA2020, that is the historical average in CA. For millions of years the land we call CA has produced great fires as common place events. We notice these great fires because, well, we now live all over CA., and people build in forest locations and forget to clear trees and brush out.
We narrowly missed a fire apocalypse in Motecito when the Thomas Fire just gave up because the wind died. It looked like a mushroom cloud raining burning embers down a half mile south of Westmont. By chance, we were saved an LA type disaster by a wind change.
But the point is every inch of soil we have in the foothill areas requires 500 massive fires to create. And there is several feet of soil. So this is tens of thousands of massive fires in our foothills.
And the state on average produces 4 million acres of fires yearly. So these fires are nothing new. Not caused by CO2, not caused by factories or cave people with mammoth bar-B-Qs. It’s completely natural. And we humans would be wise to studiously remove excessive shrub and tree growth from our Wildland/urban interface. See my fire prevention work at Coledesignmontecito.com TC
And from academia…
“ While 4 million acres may seem staggering, studies show it's on par with California's natural fire cycle over millennia, influenced in large part by Native American tribes who used fire proactively to shape the landscape. Since fires happened more regularly then, they wouldn't have been as extreme.
"We have not been adapting," says Ernesto Alvarado, professor of wildland fire at the University of Washington. "We will never be Native Americans, but we can be indigenious to the land. And one of the things we need to accept: this place burns. The West burns."
Sometimes I wonder if Native Americans are just waiting until everyone else succumbs to the fires we inevitably create with our so-called nature preservation techniques in CA. We could learn a lot from them. They knew how to love, respect, and cherish nature instinctively.
Thank you Andy for a very informative take on how the anti-oil environmental extremists are commandeering and hijacking our energy policy.
Yes, in lock step with the liberal left, the Democratic cabal, wants to “phase out” use of cheap, clean, abundant fossil fuels, killing hundreds of jobs and millions in County royalties. Who died and made them King?
Alternative energy sources are just that…alternatives to proven, low cost energy sources. Alarming are the number of BESS battery plants springing up around our communities, without seemingly public hearings or input. One is scheduled for development in Goleta right next to Elwood School and a home for the elderly. What genius picked this location? Are EIR, CEQA processes followed to the letter as they are by the Costal Commission on virtually everything else? What about fires associated with these plants that are unable to be extinguished?
Further, is the scandalous plans to transform Morro Bay into a “Safety Harbor” for a massive wind plant. This, despite numerous concerns from local fishermen and others associated with the tourism industry.
Clearly, the radical environmentalists in this state have other plans as to how we, the taxpaying public, will heat our homes, drive our cars and power our businesses by unproven, expensive and potentially disastrous sources. All while exploiting our tax dollars!
What role does Laura Capps play in all this? I have no idea, but I do agree with your “Bobble Head” analogy!
Like so many others I had my house insurance policy cancelled last Fall, and had to replace it with a FairPlan and an associated DIC policy that cost significantly more for less coverage. The CalFire maps for Fire Hazard Severity Zones have determined our entire area to be high risk. When the polices for the residents of Pacific Palisades also had their policies cancelled at the same time most would have been unable to replace their coverage before the devastation that destroyed their community. Add up the cost to our community for the insurance and surely our tax dollars could fund forest management fire suppression and mitigation efforts. But no. I vote for chaparral eating goats.
The tree huggers could be over-reacting. On the other hand, if they are RIGHT, and we continue doing nothing, life is really going to suck for our grandchildren and their progeny. In "Dirty Harry" Clint's character said: "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?". Well, I am not a gambling man, so "doing nothing" is not an option for me. After all, the worst that could happen is that we would all be breathing cleaner air, drinking cleaner water, eating healthier food, and giving other species a chance. Hoping Jesus will come back in time to fix everything is not really a plan. Let's all try to be "good stewards" of God's creation, instead of continuing to rape the planet He gave us. We could start by banning all single use plastic containers and plastic bags; eliminating the per gallon gas tax and replacing it with a "miles driven" tax; and basing the annual vehicle registration fee on the size, weight, horsepower, and mpg rating of the vehicle.
Stephen, even if the tree huggers are over-reacting, I think using petrochemicals wisely should be the focus. Right now, the only way we have to make synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and cement (and most steel) is with oil and gas. We shouln't be pissing it away on fueling Ram pickups getting 12 mph with only one person in it.
Some of us are old enough to remember what the air was like in LA back in the 1950’s. Check for a smog alert before you are allowed to send your children outside because it is too dangerous to breathe deeply when they play. Clean water? Our rivers once flowed with enough industrial waste to burst spontaneously into flame. Concerted efforts by reasonable men, both Republicans and Democrats worked together on the legislation that gave us cleaner air and water. Are you telling me that the coal industry voluntarily decided to clean up their smokestacks to prevent acid rain? And I suppose you want me to believe that global warming is a Chinese hoax.
We need more dams to capture rain and snow melt. We need nuclear power and desalination on a large scale. We need actual forest management. We have lots in common with Israel when it comes to power and water. They are solving their problem, and export water to Jordan. Instead we are just watching people like Capps, Hart, Limon, and Newscum blow smoke.
Who goes around and weighs metric tons of gasses? I've never known anyone that has that job <g>. Even if there are people weighing gasses, they are no doubt Democrat "experts" wearing white gowns to appear as an PhD with false knowledge. PhD geeks weighing gasses surely has to be one of those worldly parameters that can be tampered with as they wish. What's a metric ton added here and there between PhD buddies. In time, instead of measuring metric tons, we can just guess at it to save labor. Ask AI what the metric tons will be today, just like predicting the weather.
Same people who gave us the Covid scam, endless wars, DEI, ESG, etc. also created & promote the Climate scam — it’s the Globalist Cult, trying to further control the world and grind down mankind to a manageable herd of about 500,000,000 people, to serve the cult…
Bill there are thousands and thousands of people doing just that. Measuring metric tons of GHGs. It is more complicated than most folks' tax season. Folks are doing with tools ranging from simple Excel sheets to expensive proprietary software. It's been automated enough that no PhD much less a white 'gown' is required. But some (minus the lab coat) do chime in on nuances.
Right now, about 80% of S&P 500 companies report some level of their GHG impacts publicly. Nearly all of them are keeping track of it.
Very good point. Limited at for sure. But for many of them if it's for improving internal programs it's close enough. If they have a goal to reduce down stream transportation impacts by X% then if the delivery truck meets Euro 4 or 5 or is only 2/3rds full is in the noise. Where the biggest challenges are is when they are trying to figure out ghg impacts of materials in their supply chains. There really isn't accurate data for kgCO2e for steel from one Chinese planet vs. another. You end up selecting "steel, China" and that's the best you can do. Most of the inputs have uncertainty factors and for larger (more expensive) studies you'd follow up with a sensitivity analysis of some sort to see if/where and how much the results are being impacted.
Again, it's gross level accounting... not rocket science.
Lastly on "Climate Change" how is it in fire prone California, let alone dry Southrrn California, their brilliant people in charge of our county CAN'T see the forrest for the trees, or should I say WEEDS? Our entire city is a fire torch waiting to ignite! THEIR streets, byways, highways are loaded with tinder! Such an embarrassing disgrace. 60yo or older palm trees on city property have NEVER been cleaned of dead debris? A haven for rats! How STUPID are these climate warlords? Medians covered in tall grasses and weeds. Offramps inviting cars and semis walled off by 6ft towering dead grasses! Why is it only Santa Barbara and LA city proper are so poorly managed? But WE are the wealthiest real estate of the esteemed. City streets spouting new and dried grasses and clustered with weeds. WE LOOK LIKE an old, poor, detetiorating inner city. And the answer is to house 1,000s of low income? Detroit? Flint? Gary? Is that what the liberal left Democrat leadership is aiming for? Blue people create
Blue communities! But taxes are for their personal use, Tiffany Henyards...Let the city burn, "We'll catch it all for ourselves." Maui, Hollywood Hills and East, Malibu. Who's next? After all, Gates and Zuckerberg plan to rule the world. The people parish for lack of knowledge.....
On wildfires fires, yes they have been historically a problem for 1,000s of years...nothing new.. Prior to the huge population boom in California, very few forests burned. At least not in my lifetime, except occasional arson. Grew up from the 50s in LA, OC, Tahoe, Central Valley. It was, as usual, bureaucrats making poor decisions, usually on land grabs. Now our state WANTS to house millions more who just arrived on our door step! Such a foolish irresponsible CHOICE for the limited water resources that already exist in Southern California. Especially the coastal region. And with the loss of the LA esteemed Hills residences lost to fire, now the PRIVILEDGED can carve out huge swaths of estate owned land for the New Elite Enclave, Oprah, Gates, Zuckerberg. Oh ya, they already have the New Maui. Again and again, simpletons in charge making decisions for all.
Please stop electing 7 year olds to take possesion of our tax dollars to use for their PET PROJECTS. Like increasing THEIR personal salaries as we continue to see our state fall billons more in debt. We say we esteem our teachers. This red tape is soon to deplete their pensions. Which I might believe is what's really behind teachers being added to the Social Security payroll. But alas, money grows on trees.....
Let us not forget while Bill Gates lives at the top of the food chain, he twists a tale for everyone below his and his global cronie aristocratic privileged elite, that the rest of us must learn to eat bugs for our protein. Newsome at the French Laundry. I know he wasn't eating insects! Only those not capable of processing more than one directive at a time could ever buy into that idiocy. Those running our city, our county, our state suffer from diverse derangement disabilities. In short, they are clueless lemmings not capable of thinking for themselves.
And on the whales increased deaths, the tonnage of cargo ships from China to our West Coast causing "road kill" as these ships constantly cross their mandatory migration routes to follow their food chain is not an option for them.
What about the horrific Chinese Labor Camps? The genocidal elimination of the Uyghurs used for enslaved labor. Child forced labor precious metal mines? Bill Gates doesn't care. This group doesn't rage against those atrocities! Just forcing electric cars which require HUGE amounts of natural resources to produce the extra electricity. Revelation 8:9, a third of the living creatures in the sea die. Playing around with the planet's need for sunlight will surely usher in death for all. These people are such simpleton!
They actually believe they are the only ones on the planet capable of acting as the ultimate authority on everything.
While the local zero tolerance crowd screams the loudest constantly about cruise ships destroying our local environment, it is instructional to track all global shipping in real time on the website Marine Traffic. There you learn cruises ships in fact are few and far between in our local waters - they are the blue markers on the websites global map showing passenger vessels tracked world wide.
The bulk of global marine traffic consists of cargo ships, tankers, and no small numbers of fishing vessels. I suggest our local save the whales crowd needs to protest buying more junk from China, whose ocean trade routes contribute a large part of the current ocean traffic plying our oceans 24/7/365.
And particularly to stop demanding we produce no (zero tolerance) domestic fuel supplies, which in turn requires energy sources must be shipped in from farther away. We now have common recognition locally produced "green energy" sourcing has always been only a pipe dream; while dreaming erroneously there shall be no more local pipelines, ever and forever. Cognitive dissonance.
Marine Traffic: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-23.4/centery:8.9/zoom:2
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) published a video having to do with green house gas over 20 years ago. PH.D. types were walking volcanoes and showing how one major eruption produced more GHG then all of mankind produced with civilization in one year.
Now fast forward to Kilauea on the big island of the Hawaiian chain. It has been on a eruption cycle of over 30 years. Just in the last year it has produced more GHG than all of the volcanoes world wide. Some of them have been serious large scale eruptions within the past decade. This means that one volcano has produced more GHG in just the past decade then industry has produced in well over 30 years (now add in the other eruptions and you see the issue). The speed good old nature has done this is amazing.
Ignore the great charts of this article. Ignore the fact that the voters gave Sacramento both the power and dollars to do proper forest management. Forget that the outcome of Gov. Newsom failures in Calif. forest management has cost lives, million if not billions of damaged homes and businesses, and disruption of lives and hey, how about those insurance costs.
What are you going to do now that nature has dwarfed all of the one party system in Sacramento?
There is so much more to add into this mix solar, wind farms, toxic batteries, etc.
Just remember Ms. Capps and friends are small potatoes in the equation but then so are the radicalized EPA under past administrations. There is where serious damage to both the nation and the world is.
Now with AI where is the estimates of particulate air matter with the natives pre-Cabrillo? Where is the estimates of hydrocarbon emissions good old nature was pumping into the air both in the channel and on land up and down the coast pre-Cabrillo?
There is a whole missing dimension that the sky is falling groups have yet to address.
This
"Kilauea on the big island of the Hawaiian chain. It has been on a eruption cycle of over 30 years. Just in the last year it has produced more GHG than all of the volcanoes world wide"
is not true. Do your own background check. From Grok (What seems to be a Current favorite) "The claim that Kīlauea’s emissions exceed those of all volcanoes worldwide may be rooted in misinformation campaigns that exaggerate volcanic contributions to climate change to downplay human impacts."
Not to be outdone by the misinformation campaign linking CO2 to unstoppable life threatening global warming.
If I want the opinion of John Thomas I simply ask AI.
Sorry Dr. Barton. I'm don't have info on volcano spewage memorized. But seems like you like to pick me out - did you ask your team for where they get their numbers? I don't think Andy had all his memorized.
Plus seems like most of the Current folks like Grok. I thought it was an olive branch.
I can only depend on the NOAA video. Done by PH. D. experts.
A 30 year cycle of constant out flow would cumulative be substantial.
Thank you for your comment.
We know that CO2 has been higher and lower than it is now but mostly it has been higher, much higher all before man walked the planet. We also know that it has been hotter and colder than it is now but mostly it has been hotter all before man walked the planet. We also know that volcanoes and meteorite impacts are major drivers of large climate swings and mass extinctions of the past. But current climate hysteria is based on only one thing and that is CO2. Furthermore, since it is impossible to predict how CO2 will affect the climate in the distant future, computer models are used to predict. Think of computer models as cartoons which simplify the science based on assumptions. Think Wile E Coyote, super genius. No climate models can account for the possibility of meteorite impacts or volcanism yet these are major drivers of climate change. To believe the global warming hoax that climate change is eminent, an exestential threat and due solely to fossil fuel is to ignore much of what we know drives large climate swings and mass extinctions. It is however a hell of a way to make money
Here’s something you don’t often hear in climate discussions: human greenhouse gas emissions may have actually prevented a mass extinction. According to long-term Milankovitch cycles, we should already be drifting into a new ice age. However, if atmospheric CO₂ drops below 180 parts per million, photosynthesis stops—and with it, almost all life on Earth. It’s entirely possible that human activity prevented that dip and kept Earth habitable. The highest graded, most habitable planet outside of Earth is Mars. The last time I checked, there was no human involvement, and the system was running on its own, resulting in runaway cooling. I highly doubt most common-sense people would prefer mass human extinction to the meaningless 400 ppm we sit at now. It would be fantastic if we could interview one of our ancestors about how great the last mini ice age was and the resulting famine.
Out of the trillions of planets in the universe, only one is known to have avoided both runaway cooling and runaway heating. However, Earth is still cosmologically young. Thus, the notion that we should just “let nature take its course” seems to defy the odds. The Universe doesn’t guarantee survival—it simply follows physics. This reflects the smart forestry management advocacy in this article.
Now envision a future where nuclear reactors—ideally fusion—power CO₂ scrubbers throughout the developed world. Like a thermostat, we could control greenhouse gas levels: keep the ice caps intact, prevent glacial extinction cycles, and avoid runaway warming. We could actively dampen the variability swing with science. Volcano spikes CO₂? Adjust it down. Cycle bringing us to an ice age, dial it up. No more fretting over fuel emissions. This is precisely the kind of system we would need to terraform Mars—or sustain Earth long-term.
Let the purple-haired protestors demand a return to cave life. I’d rather we use our brains, science, and engineering to take control of our future. Last time I checked, most people didn't argue against building houses equipped with roofs, electricity, heating, cooling, plumbing, and so on, preferring instead to live outside and let nature take its natural course of cooling and heating us without human interaction. Climate control over its variability is solvable. We just need to act like it.
I do keep pondering the safety of nuclear plants. They require billions of cool water and produce toxic fallout. Maybe in time our resources can produce something like crystals to produce power, like found in science fiction, future, possibilities.
Nuclear plants do require a significant amount of cooling water, and 99.99999% of that water is excluded from the radioactive loop. The water within that loop is consistently contained. We have an abundance of seawater available, and it recirculates continuously. Furthermore, if we connect to a desalination plant, the byproduct brine can also be utilized for cooling. The byproduct sodium can be used to produce sodium-ion batteries for renewable energy storage.
Sodium-ion batteries are also not explosive or highly flammable like lithium-ion batteries. Granted, they don't have the same energy density today, but that could change with more research and development. Either way, since salt is inexpensive, why not use more?
Your major misconception here is about fallout. Nuclear plants DO NOT create fallout. Only two incidents of isolated minor fallout from nuclear plants have occurred in history: Chernobyl and Fukushima. A modern nuclear plant today has safety features built in to prevent these cases with 99.999999% certainty.
Nuclear energy is safe. The waste produced over the entire life of a plant can fit into a 1-acre concrete and lead-lined containment. Comparing that to the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by fossil fuel plants, it’s literally nothing.
C02 is plant food. Full stop.
Colorless, odorless, non toxic, essential to life plant food. I have said this before but it is disingenuous to call CO2 carbon. It is only to invoke images of dirty toxic pollution that causes black lung.
Democrat logic: we are supposed to eat more plant food, at the same time we are asked to starve plants out of their own primary nutritional sources.
Produce less C02, in order to consume more C02. Do they ever track their own cognitive dissonance? Covid will kill you but the covid shots will kill you even more. Open borders are humanitarian, while unfettered cartel traffic destroys even more lives. Spend now in order to protect the future for our grandchildren, who now must spend their tomorrows paying off today's debts...............
In a nutshell, perfectly stated 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Puppet master - I actually agree with that. The whole 'carbon footprint' is misleading if the intent to account for greenhouse gases.
So, maybe it's not all cow flatulence, Ha! Humans too contribute approximately 0.2-3 gallons per day. Maybe that's why Gates, after all he is a god, says 3/4ths of the human population and cattle must be eliminated. Surely he is the smartest one and must know.....covid tried, sigh...
Another home run for Mr Caldwell. While people have been alarmed at 4million acres burning in CA2020, that is the historical average in CA. For millions of years the land we call CA has produced great fires as common place events. We notice these great fires because, well, we now live all over CA., and people build in forest locations and forget to clear trees and brush out.
We narrowly missed a fire apocalypse in Motecito when the Thomas Fire just gave up because the wind died. It looked like a mushroom cloud raining burning embers down a half mile south of Westmont. By chance, we were saved an LA type disaster by a wind change.
But the point is every inch of soil we have in the foothill areas requires 500 massive fires to create. And there is several feet of soil. So this is tens of thousands of massive fires in our foothills.
And the state on average produces 4 million acres of fires yearly. So these fires are nothing new. Not caused by CO2, not caused by factories or cave people with mammoth bar-B-Qs. It’s completely natural. And we humans would be wise to studiously remove excessive shrub and tree growth from our Wildland/urban interface. See my fire prevention work at Coledesignmontecito.com TC
And from academia…
“ While 4 million acres may seem staggering, studies show it's on par with California's natural fire cycle over millennia, influenced in large part by Native American tribes who used fire proactively to shape the landscape. Since fires happened more regularly then, they wouldn't have been as extreme.
"We have not been adapting," says Ernesto Alvarado, professor of wildland fire at the University of Washington. "We will never be Native Americans, but we can be indigenious to the land. And one of the things we need to accept: this place burns. The West burns."
Sometimes I wonder if Native Americans are just waiting until everyone else succumbs to the fires we inevitably create with our so-called nature preservation techniques in CA. We could learn a lot from them. They knew how to love, respect, and cherish nature instinctively.
Thank you Andy for a very informative take on how the anti-oil environmental extremists are commandeering and hijacking our energy policy.
Yes, in lock step with the liberal left, the Democratic cabal, wants to “phase out” use of cheap, clean, abundant fossil fuels, killing hundreds of jobs and millions in County royalties. Who died and made them King?
Alternative energy sources are just that…alternatives to proven, low cost energy sources. Alarming are the number of BESS battery plants springing up around our communities, without seemingly public hearings or input. One is scheduled for development in Goleta right next to Elwood School and a home for the elderly. What genius picked this location? Are EIR, CEQA processes followed to the letter as they are by the Costal Commission on virtually everything else? What about fires associated with these plants that are unable to be extinguished?
Further, is the scandalous plans to transform Morro Bay into a “Safety Harbor” for a massive wind plant. This, despite numerous concerns from local fishermen and others associated with the tourism industry.
https://californiaglobe.com/fr/green-energy-destroying-californias-coast-morro-bay-wind-farm-project/
Clearly, the radical environmentalists in this state have other plans as to how we, the taxpaying public, will heat our homes, drive our cars and power our businesses by unproven, expensive and potentially disastrous sources. All while exploiting our tax dollars!
What role does Laura Capps play in all this? I have no idea, but I do agree with your “Bobble Head” analogy!
Love your exact reality check on liberal left insanity. Or just lies
I read this article "Who Will Save the Planet from Laura Capps and Friends?
By Andy Caldwell" that address problems here in Santa Barbara and the
State of California but is not the widespread and main problem. The Actual
title that describes the very serious problems in Santa Barbara and in California
should be "Public Corruption Destroys the SB Community and California"
If the folks do not know what Going Down in this Lil Ole Beach town it is time to look.
There are experts telling you so as former FBI Executive Tom Parker in his
warning article in the Independent "Perceptions of Political Corruption
Too Often the Harbingers of Stark Reality"
https://www.independent.com/2020/02/22/perceptions-of-political-corruption/
Anyone taking alittle drive around this town can literally see for you own eyes.
Or File your FOIA requests with the SB Agencies as Bonny Donovan.
The So-Called-SB-Leaders are going conceal EVERTHING.
Howard Walther Member of a Military Family
Like so many others I had my house insurance policy cancelled last Fall, and had to replace it with a FairPlan and an associated DIC policy that cost significantly more for less coverage. The CalFire maps for Fire Hazard Severity Zones have determined our entire area to be high risk. When the polices for the residents of Pacific Palisades also had their policies cancelled at the same time most would have been unable to replace their coverage before the devastation that destroyed their community. Add up the cost to our community for the insurance and surely our tax dollars could fund forest management fire suppression and mitigation efforts. But no. I vote for chaparral eating goats.
I have zero respect for Capps. She has represents the rabid left.
Andy, is the last chart a duplicate?
Thank you Jeff, yes that was a duplicate. it is now corrected on the site.
The tree huggers could be over-reacting. On the other hand, if they are RIGHT, and we continue doing nothing, life is really going to suck for our grandchildren and their progeny. In "Dirty Harry" Clint's character said: "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?". Well, I am not a gambling man, so "doing nothing" is not an option for me. After all, the worst that could happen is that we would all be breathing cleaner air, drinking cleaner water, eating healthier food, and giving other species a chance. Hoping Jesus will come back in time to fix everything is not really a plan. Let's all try to be "good stewards" of God's creation, instead of continuing to rape the planet He gave us. We could start by banning all single use plastic containers and plastic bags; eliminating the per gallon gas tax and replacing it with a "miles driven" tax; and basing the annual vehicle registration fee on the size, weight, horsepower, and mpg rating of the vehicle.
Stephen, even if the tree huggers are over-reacting, I think using petrochemicals wisely should be the focus. Right now, the only way we have to make synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and cement (and most steel) is with oil and gas. We shouln't be pissing it away on fueling Ram pickups getting 12 mph with only one person in it.
Some of us are old enough to remember what the air was like in LA back in the 1950’s. Check for a smog alert before you are allowed to send your children outside because it is too dangerous to breathe deeply when they play. Clean water? Our rivers once flowed with enough industrial waste to burst spontaneously into flame. Concerted efforts by reasonable men, both Republicans and Democrats worked together on the legislation that gave us cleaner air and water. Are you telling me that the coal industry voluntarily decided to clean up their smokestacks to prevent acid rain? And I suppose you want me to believe that global warming is a Chinese hoax.
We need more dams to capture rain and snow melt. We need nuclear power and desalination on a large scale. We need actual forest management. We have lots in common with Israel when it comes to power and water. They are solving their problem, and export water to Jordan. Instead we are just watching people like Capps, Hart, Limon, and Newscum blow smoke.
We need Steve Hilton.
Who goes around and weighs metric tons of gasses? I've never known anyone that has that job <g>. Even if there are people weighing gasses, they are no doubt Democrat "experts" wearing white gowns to appear as an PhD with false knowledge. PhD geeks weighing gasses surely has to be one of those worldly parameters that can be tampered with as they wish. What's a metric ton added here and there between PhD buddies. In time, instead of measuring metric tons, we can just guess at it to save labor. Ask AI what the metric tons will be today, just like predicting the weather.
Same people who gave us the Covid scam, endless wars, DEI, ESG, etc. also created & promote the Climate scam — it’s the Globalist Cult, trying to further control the world and grind down mankind to a manageable herd of about 500,000,000 people, to serve the cult…
Bill there are thousands and thousands of people doing just that. Measuring metric tons of GHGs. It is more complicated than most folks' tax season. Folks are doing with tools ranging from simple Excel sheets to expensive proprietary software. It's been automated enough that no PhD much less a white 'gown' is required. But some (minus the lab coat) do chime in on nuances.
Right now, about 80% of S&P 500 companies report some level of their GHG impacts publicly. Nearly all of them are keeping track of it.
https://ghgprotocol.org/
Wonder with what true accuracy.
Very good point. Limited at for sure. But for many of them if it's for improving internal programs it's close enough. If they have a goal to reduce down stream transportation impacts by X% then if the delivery truck meets Euro 4 or 5 or is only 2/3rds full is in the noise. Where the biggest challenges are is when they are trying to figure out ghg impacts of materials in their supply chains. There really isn't accurate data for kgCO2e for steel from one Chinese planet vs. another. You end up selecting "steel, China" and that's the best you can do. Most of the inputs have uncertainty factors and for larger (more expensive) studies you'd follow up with a sensitivity analysis of some sort to see if/where and how much the results are being impacted.
Again, it's gross level accounting... not rocket science.
Lastly on "Climate Change" how is it in fire prone California, let alone dry Southrrn California, their brilliant people in charge of our county CAN'T see the forrest for the trees, or should I say WEEDS? Our entire city is a fire torch waiting to ignite! THEIR streets, byways, highways are loaded with tinder! Such an embarrassing disgrace. 60yo or older palm trees on city property have NEVER been cleaned of dead debris? A haven for rats! How STUPID are these climate warlords? Medians covered in tall grasses and weeds. Offramps inviting cars and semis walled off by 6ft towering dead grasses! Why is it only Santa Barbara and LA city proper are so poorly managed? But WE are the wealthiest real estate of the esteemed. City streets spouting new and dried grasses and clustered with weeds. WE LOOK LIKE an old, poor, detetiorating inner city. And the answer is to house 1,000s of low income? Detroit? Flint? Gary? Is that what the liberal left Democrat leadership is aiming for? Blue people create
Blue communities! But taxes are for their personal use, Tiffany Henyards...Let the city burn, "We'll catch it all for ourselves." Maui, Hollywood Hills and East, Malibu. Who's next? After all, Gates and Zuckerberg plan to rule the world. The people parish for lack of knowledge.....
On wildfires fires, yes they have been historically a problem for 1,000s of years...nothing new.. Prior to the huge population boom in California, very few forests burned. At least not in my lifetime, except occasional arson. Grew up from the 50s in LA, OC, Tahoe, Central Valley. It was, as usual, bureaucrats making poor decisions, usually on land grabs. Now our state WANTS to house millions more who just arrived on our door step! Such a foolish irresponsible CHOICE for the limited water resources that already exist in Southern California. Especially the coastal region. And with the loss of the LA esteemed Hills residences lost to fire, now the PRIVILEDGED can carve out huge swaths of estate owned land for the New Elite Enclave, Oprah, Gates, Zuckerberg. Oh ya, they already have the New Maui. Again and again, simpletons in charge making decisions for all.
Please stop electing 7 year olds to take possesion of our tax dollars to use for their PET PROJECTS. Like increasing THEIR personal salaries as we continue to see our state fall billons more in debt. We say we esteem our teachers. This red tape is soon to deplete their pensions. Which I might believe is what's really behind teachers being added to the Social Security payroll. But alas, money grows on trees.....
Let us not forget while Bill Gates lives at the top of the food chain, he twists a tale for everyone below his and his global cronie aristocratic privileged elite, that the rest of us must learn to eat bugs for our protein. Newsome at the French Laundry. I know he wasn't eating insects! Only those not capable of processing more than one directive at a time could ever buy into that idiocy. Those running our city, our county, our state suffer from diverse derangement disabilities. In short, they are clueless lemmings not capable of thinking for themselves.
And on the whales increased deaths, the tonnage of cargo ships from China to our West Coast causing "road kill" as these ships constantly cross their mandatory migration routes to follow their food chain is not an option for them.
What about the horrific Chinese Labor Camps? The genocidal elimination of the Uyghurs used for enslaved labor. Child forced labor precious metal mines? Bill Gates doesn't care. This group doesn't rage against those atrocities! Just forcing electric cars which require HUGE amounts of natural resources to produce the extra electricity. Revelation 8:9, a third of the living creatures in the sea die. Playing around with the planet's need for sunlight will surely usher in death for all. These people are such simpleton!
They actually believe they are the only ones on the planet capable of acting as the ultimate authority on everything.
down the pacific