Joe Sullivan – Geological Engineer

The Governor of California, in ignorance of what really constitutes Global Climatic change, signed into law Assembly Bill AB32 on September 27, 2006, the Global Warming Solutions Act, requiring California to develop regulations that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, principally CO2, to 1990 levels by 2020. The total cost of the ineffectual regulations may bankrupt California without affecting climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the so-called authority on climate change, yet Vice Chair Yurri Izael in April 2007 wrote, “the panic over global warming is totally unjustified;” “there is no serious threat to the climate.” IPPC reports are not those of its scientists, but are policymakers’ summaries produced by a committee of 51 government appointees, many of who are not scientists. Some of its 2500 scientists have resigned in protest against IPPC summaries, in which these political appointees alter their own scientist’s reviews. The latest example of this type activity occurred at the end of 2009 when computer hackers broke into the computers of the British Hadley Institute, hailed for its research of global warming, and it was discovered the Institute manipulated data to cover up evidence that went against their beliefs in man-made global warming. Admitted was that we are not seeing global warming, but rather global cooling. I have seen the same evidence in graphs showing the start of the cooling trend. From 1850 to 1950 CO2 levels increased significantly, but the temperature rose only 0.1 degree Celsius. The earth has been cooling and is likely to do so for the next couple of decades. Understand that all the hoopala about global warming is based on a supposed increase in CO2, which makes up only 3.4 one-hundredth of one percent of the earth’s total gases in the atmosphere. That 0.034 percent, which Global Warming advocates want to reduce by a smidgen at a cost of trillions of dollars worldwide, is being advocated at a time when the earth is cooling.

Credentials that permit me to comment on the subject are that I have been a Geological Engineer for over a half century, one of 31,478 scientists registered in the Global Warming Petition Project, who oppose politician’s idiotic plans to spend billions trying to reduce carbon dioxide. In 1977 I was Chief of the Special Programs Unit at McClellan AFB, CA involved in tasks supporting Missile and Space Programs, and Satellite Communications Systems. We were responsible for maintenance of ground receiver stations for polar earth orbiting weather observation satellites, part of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. The weather information, pictures and other classified information were provided to Department of Defense command elements. We were also involved in developing a new generation of weather satellites, and the modification of all receiving stations. I know how to read climatic data, whereas I don’t believe either the ennobled Al Gore, nor Governor Schwarzenegger can.

During Earth’s history, global warming has happened many times. Weiner, in “Planet Earth”, wrote that the Earth was an icehouse 18,000 years ago, and a hothouse 100 million years ago, without a speck of permanent ice anywhere. What really affects our climate? During Earth’s formation it was impacted at a low angle by Theia, a planitodail mass a little smaller than Mars. The impact knocked off part of the earth’s forming mantle, which later formed part of the moon. Theia’s impact is responsible for the earth’s 23.5-degree axial tilt, which created the Earth’s seasons. After the impact the remaining mantle fractured, and parts drifting on the earth’s semi-molten surface formed tectonic plates. The plates collided with each other many times and the present set, making up our continents, are still in motion. The earth’s tilt; changes in the way it orbits the sun; variation of the sun’s radiation as it burns up; volcanic eruptions; changes in oceans flows; and melting snow and ice control the earth’s climate. Large numbers of earthquakes occur every year, a reminder that earth is a cracked dynamic sphere, whose parts are constantly in motion, and are all involved in climatic conditions. Calder, author of “The Restless Earth” ended his book on the earth’s tectonic plates by wondering whether humans will continue to exist as the great plates make their movements, and remarked: “to the Earth it’s a matter of indifference.” Global warming control efforts are a farce.

And yes Truthsquad (Or Maviglio, paid CARB mouthpiece, whatever it is you prefer) it is true that those technologies did become obsolete, but that was due to the FREE MARKET, NOT GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS. Those companies were not forced out of business because some nut jobs in unelected positions decided that they were no longer neccessary because something newer and better was going to come along 20-30 years down the road. There was a transition period in which the new technologies were improved and made more affordable. When the car was invinted, it was a LUXURY ITEM FOR THE RICH. It was not until the cars were more reliable and more affordable (Thank you Mr. Ford) that the horse and buggy was no longer the preffered method of transportation. When the computer was invented, it bas damn near as big as most peoples houses and was more expensive than the homes as well. Once again, in the infancy state of computers, they WERE A LUXURY ITEM FOR THE RICH. It was not until they were made smaller and more affordable that they replaced type writers.

Just like those other wonderful inventions, the “Green Technologies” are in their infancy stages and they are not as reliable or cost effective as our current methods of producing energy and they ARE A LUXURY ITEM FOR THE RICH. The only people that can afford these “Green Technologies” are the rich and the low income people who basically get it for free because of government subsidies. The middle class cannot afford it and they do not qualify for the subsidies from the government. The middle class is being isolated and will be destroyed by AB 32 because they are stuck in no mans land.

Once these new technologies are perfected and are more affordable, the FREE MARKET will naturally adopt them as the standard method of generating energy. Government forced adoption of these technologies that are not dependable or affordable will have devistating economic and social consequences.

Just because some radical in a position of power picks a horse to win, that doesnt mean the rest of the horses should be shot before the race in even run.

Stop trying to play God with the economy and the lives of California citizens and let the FREE MARKET run its course. As much as you may hate to hear it, you CANNOT control everything. The results of your decisions will not be as good as the results of the FREE MARKET. The FREE MARKET knows better than you do.

The fact that you have hired professional liars to try to trick people into drinking your kool-aid is pathetic. Stop trying to control peoples lives by lying and let the FREE MARKET run its course. Just because you think something is right does not make it true.

For the record, the statistics used in this report are from an industry-paid-for study that has been widely and roundly discredited by economists from Stanford, UCLA, and Tufts University. Even the authors themselves are not supporting the ballot proposition being bankrolled by Texas oil companies.

And yes, typewriter companies went out of business when computers came along, and horse and buggy manufacturers went out of business when cars came along. And so will polluters when more efficient, cost-saving products come along. That’s what happens when economies transition.

On the other hand, economics is much better understood than ‘climate science’, so any exagerations are probably orders of magnitude lower than with the climate projections.