Executive Summary
Contributor: Candice Kaiser
I received this from Mark Anderson of I Spy Radio today. It has a very important message regarding the Climate Protection Plan.
Both PP & L and PG & E will be asking for rate increases of over 17% and 10% respectively.
Please check this info out and submit your public comments by Friday.
This is a re-do of Governor Brown’s “Climate Protection Plan,” in other words, a carbon cap and trade scheme. Public comments need to be submitted by this Friday, Sept 27th.
Governor Tina Kotek is attempting to push through a “Climate Protection Plan” (CPP) via executive action. This follows former Governor Kate Brown’s attempt to do the same, despite voters rejecting a similar ballot initiative, the legislature refusing to pass a CPP bill, and Oregon’s Supreme Court striking down Governor Brown’s previous plan.
Kotek’s Department of Environmental Quality is currently seeking public input on the proposed plan. Public comments must be submitted by 4:00 pm, Friday, September 27th, 2024.
- The CPP is a carbon cap and trade program more accurately described as a sales tax on energy
- Targeted industries will be capped on allowed emissions and forced to buy carbon credits
- The CPP will have no measurable impact on its stated goal to reduce carbon emissions but will force Oregonians to pay up to 100s or 1,000s of dollars more per year for their own household energy and for goods or services that are created or delivered using energy
- The governor continues to parrot the false notion that Oregon, the nation, and the world are all under a “climate crisis” which they blame on the use of fossil fuel consumption
- All available climate records, past and present, indicate this is not true; there is no climate crisis as global temperatures remain within the bounds of all prior records
- There is no controlling effect of atmospheric CO2 on the Earth’s temperature, weather, or climate; decreasing CO2 will not cool the Earth, increasing CO2 will not heat the Earth
- In Precambrian Era (570 million years before present), atmospheric CO2 was estimated to be over 9 times present-day values,, yet all prehistoric life thrived
- In the Mesozoic Era (202 million years ago), the Earth’s global temperature was a full 10 degrees Celsius hotter than today — despite atmospheric CO2 only one-half of today’s values
- Founding principles from atmospheric science derived 80 years ago using post-Einstein radiation laws and quantum mechanics also prove this
- The “climate crisis” is entirely due to computer-generated climate models which have mathematical and physical limitations and have not demonstrated any predictive skill
Ignoring these scientific facts, Governor Kotek is pushing the CPP regardless. Submit public comments on the CPP to Nicole Singh via email: cpp.2024@deq.oregon.gov no later than 4 pm, Friday, September 27, 2024.
Chuck Wiese, Meteorologist