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1 Hawai'i General Plan re Proposed Changes in 2025— Submission Number One (January 2025) • Need to study plan's foundational topic(s) more inclusively—review scientific dissent/dialogue for a more scientific approach and better informed choices • Need to broaden the range of future scenario assumptions to include inventions already in existence and patents that will no longer remain suppressed, • Preconceived(but unstated) alliances and their premises apparently exist in this plan, thus immediately narrowing the field of options under consideration: Is this plan on the verge of becoming a WEF Great Reset clone, based/focused on, for one example,prevalent terms like STAKEHOLDER, while neglecting to mention the essential, fundamental notion of HOMEOWNER? If our Plan is going to ally itself with an entity, let's make that choice transparent and let's choose one that values humanity and freedom, not one that seeks to dominate and control. Sherilyn Wells Waikoloa Village Submission Number One January 2025 Climate change (natural climate variation) is and has always been real (reflect on the mini Ice Age of a few centuries ago; reflect on the warning in the 1970's that another such ice age was almost upon us2). Recently,the term was narrowed by a small group of researchers to refer ONLY to the human factor,based on these underlying assumptions - • that there is a high level of anthropogenic/human influence on climate due to burning fossil fuels, • that that influence is uniformly negative, • that global climate modeling can predict the future complexities of climate, • that a continuation down that fossil fuel energy path is leading to disaster. "The narrow and politicized framing of the climate change debate has resulted in an oversimplification of the scientific problem and its solutions." The three incontrovertible facts about global warming, as listed by Prof. Emeritus Judith Curry: Average global surface temperatures have overall increased since about 1860. 'hops://judithcM.com/blog-rules-and-netiguette/ 2 On April 28, 1975,Newsweek published a provocative article,"The Cooling World,"in which writer and science editor Peter Gwynne described a significant chilling of the world's climate,with evidence accumulating"so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it."He raised the possibility of shorter growing seasons and poor crop yields,famine,and shipping lanes blocked by ice, perhaps to begin as soon as the mid-1980s.Meteorologists,he wrote,were"almost unanimous"in the opinion that our planet was getting colder.Over the years that followed,Gwynne's article became one of the most-cited stories in Newsweek's history.... Scores of similar articles,some with even more dire predictions of a"little ice age"to come,appeared during the 1970s in such mainstream publications as Time, Science Digest, The Los Angeles Times,Fortune, The Chicago Tribune,New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor,Popular Science, and National Geographic.