Comments on: Schwarzenegger's Green Challenge

California Governor Says He'll Stick To Environmental Plans, Despite Economic Crisis

[portle441]

Arnold has done such a marvelous job in California he definitely has to be considered for the Presidency.Another mindless twit regurgitating the New Environmental Catechism while the economy buckles under micro regulation and over taxation

[realscience]

Arnold has become a giant pantload of rich-guilt driven, absolute non-scientific logic. As perfectly stated above, "It''s the SUN, Stupid." It''s been warming and cooling the planet for BILLIONS of years, as evidenced in the geologic record. Oceans hold 68 times more CO2 than the atmosphere. When the sun warms the ocean, CO2 is released.----The fundamental assumption that CO2 causes warming is fatally flawed--Please tell us, Brain Cell Terminator, how 38 molecules of CO2 within 100,000 molecules of atmosphere can CAUSE warming anyway? (It Cannot).
And the planet has cooled for the last ten years. Go back to making movies. Your sub-intellect perfectly fits the fantasy world of Hollywood.
T.Almond, Geologist, Jamaica Beach, Texas

[joe6pack3]

I grow tired of his daily private jet commute LA to Sacramento and his meaningless verbal exhaust, spewing CO2 that rains down on our heads. Just ALgore on steroids. More entitled thinking of the new royalty, you wont be able to have an incandescent light bulb, but the Govenator can spew CO2 in endless amounts.
2. I am republican and think the Govenator has been a disaster. He signed off on a 40% increase in spending over the past 4 years. A rate of growth that far outstrips population growth and inflation. Budgets built on sand that were nothing more than liar''s poker, fell apart quicker than a cheap suit. Now the Governator needs a new job, as it is clear he will soon become the whipping boy for Ca Bankruptcy.
3. Now to become some environmental or energy Czar! If he does for the environment or energy, what he has done for California, we are all in big trouble! Get ready to wipe with one sheet and go on a 3 hour bus commute daily!
As far as Global Warming (stick your head out the window-it is really Global Cooling) I have to borrow a phase from Bill (the impregnator) Clinton,
It''s the {Sun} stupid!

[joe6pack3]

I grow tired of his daily private jet commute LA to Sacramento and his meaningless verbal exhaust, spewing CO2 that rains down on our heads. Just ALgore on steroids. More entitled thinking of the new royalty, you wont be able to have an incandescent light bulb, but the Govenator can spew CO2 in endless amounts.
2. I am republican and think the Govenator has been a disaster. He signed off on a 40% increase in spending over the past 4 years. A rate of growth that far outstrips population growth and inflation. Budgets built on sand that were nothing more than liar''s poker, fell apart quicker than a cheap suit. Now the Governator needs a new job, as it is clear he will soon become the whipping boy for Ca Bankruptcy.
3. Now to become some environmental or energy Czar! If he does for the environment or energy, what he has done for California, we are all in big trouble! Get ready to wipe with one sheet and go on a 3 hour bus commute daily!
As far as Global Warming (stick your head out the window-it is really Global Cooling) I have to borrow a phase from Bill (the impregnator) Clinton,
It''s the {Sun} stupid!

[jeodris]

Mr Schwarzenegger.
Have you noticed the weather lately?
We''ve been setting new record lows.
Do you listen to any scientist with brains?
Or do you only believe what Al Gore says.

Here''s some recent headlines you must have missed.

Frigid Storm Closes California Freeways, Drops Snow in Malibu
Morning commute is a crawl as snow falls on Seattle; public schools close
Storm dumps nearly a foot of new snow in Flagstaff
Snow to keep falling on Inland Northwest; 5 to 8 inches expected
Snow, cold temperatures sweep into southern Rockies
Cold weather settles in for a spell in Bay Area
Winter Blast Sets Record in Las Vegas, Sets Sights on New York
Frigid Storm Closes California Freeways, Drops Snow in Malibu
System Expected To Dump 6-12 Inches Across Chicago; Ice, Sleet To The South

Stop with the Global Warming already!

Idiot...

[akdogman]

Sorry Arnold! You have to be a natural born citizen to be President reguardles of Obama''s status that is still very much in doubt.

[mngerbs]

The results of Arnolds brain being toasted by seroids or the Shriver effect.

[bustermbuddy]

First of all, anyone living in LA is living in an irrigated desert. And you''re surprised that it''s prone to drying and fires?

Second, to Schwarzenegger''s "flat earth" comments - there were also folks who were convinced that it was possible to build a master race by exterminating Jews, that it was possible to turn lead into gold,and that DDT was so poisionous that it had to be banned. And I could go on. That''s a line so lame and stupid that actors and Al Gore are prone to repeating it.

By the way, anyone notice that the WHO lifted the ban on spraying DDT in Africe a couple of years ago - decades after the scare had been disproven and 10''s of millions had died as a result of it''s banning?

[ibzjem]

Posted by telloian at 12:07 PM : Dec 22, 2008

I can quote a bunch of PhD.s who think the Sun revolves around the earth or believe the earth is only 6000 years old too. Does not make it true. To get to the bottom you have to start digging yourself.

[telloian]

%u201CThe [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.%u201D - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata. # #

In addition, the report will feature new peer-reviewed scientific studies and analyses refuting man-made warming fears and a heavy dose of inconvenient climate developments. (See Below: Study: Half of warming due to Sun! %u2013Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in ''Dustbin of History'')

%u201CFor how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

[bjcone8559]

THE ENVIRONMENTINATOR

[telloian]

%u201CGore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp%u2026Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.%u201D - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

%u201CMany [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.%u201D - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

%u201CCreating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense%u2026The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.%u201D - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

%u201CCO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another%u2026.Every scientist knows this, but it doesn%u2019t pay to say so%u2026Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver%u2019s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.%u201D - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

[telloian]

%u201CThe models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.%u201D - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

%u201CIt is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don%u2019t buy into anthropogenic global warming.%u201D - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

%u201CEven doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.%u201D %u2013 . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

%u201CAfter reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri''s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it''s hard to remain quiet.%u201D - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society''s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

[telloian]

%u201CI am a skeptic%u2026Global warming has become a new religion.%u201D - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

%u201CSince I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly%u2026.As a scientist I remain skeptical.%u201D - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called %u201Camong the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.%u201D

Warming fears are the %u201Cworst scientific scandal in the history%u2026When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.%u201D - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

%u201CThe IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn%u2019t listen to others. It doesn%u2019t have open minds%u2026 I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,%u201D - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

[telloian]

52 IPCC scientists state there is global warming and 650 internationally well known scientists (with no UN agenda) state that global warming is bad science. Hmmm...

See full report below:

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6

[realetybytes]

It''s called green tech. because that''s the color of the TAXPAYERS money they want to steal in the name of research that will never work.
Not one penny of TAXPAYERS MONEY should go to these environmental charatans.
When the private sector brings forth the solution to any of our problems, we, the capitalist American system, should pay a tax free billion dollars for it. But not one penny for "research", which is just paying for failure. Polio is the last medical problem cured, and as soon as the government started handing out failure (research) money, we stopped curing anything. Now they try to "manage" disease while they do year after year of failure (research) on the governments dime.
Let the private sector find the cures.Pull all government research money, and watch how fast they start to cure or develop things.

[cariboubarbi]

Arnold is right on the environment.

Maybe he can lead his party back to sanity.

[realetybytes]

It is the environmentalists fault that there are such devastating fires. They sued to keep from removing the brush and old growth, which is better known as kindling. You are not allowed to clears the forest debris from around your house because of some stupid mouse. Of course fires will get worse if you surround your house with dry kindling!
But no, it''s Bushes fault.
Radical, ignorant, anti-human environmentalists are to blame. If my house burned I would sue the sierra club and all those that fought to keep from cleaning out the old growth and brush.

Arnold is right about the environment. The time is NOW to do something it...not later.

[dre95060]

We elected Schwarzenegger to clean up the huge mess Gray Davis and the Democrats made when they got drunk on the dot com tax revenue. Arnold wimped out on his spending reform initiatives at the first sign of opposition from the unions. He barely even campaigned for them in his special election. Now he does his Rodney King "can''t we all just get along?" act instead of trying to roll back spending--which has increased 45% in the last five years. He is the worst governor we''ve ever had--with the largest ego. Thank god he is ineligible to run for president.