2024-11-21 Michelle Melendez Testimony

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From: Michelle Melendez To: WPCtestimonv;LPCtestimonv Subject: Testimony on General Plan Climate Change Date: Thursday,November 21,2024 5:12:02 PM Aloha Leeward Commission, Mahalo so much for listening to us today.I know you are all volunteers and I really appreciate your time. A huge part of the plan is dedicated to"Climate Change".However,I've researched and found many climate experts disagree with this narrative. This is VERY dangerous because this section will add more rules,and regulations and take away freedom.In the name of climate change it will restructure the Big Island way of life and give more power to the government. Here is what you need to know: Over 1900 credentialed scientists have signed a World Declaration literally stating,"There is No Climate Danger".Review it here https://clintel.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WCD-241023.pdf The declaration states: "To believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. This is precisely the problem of today's climate discussion to which climate models are central. Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs,not on sound self-critical science.Should not we free ourselves from the naive belief in immature climate models?" John Coleman,Good Morning America's first weatherman and the founder of the Weather channel stated, "There is No Global Warming".Find his talk here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K56fms2VZTc 50 Years as Meteorologist with the US Airforce and Climatologist Professor David Dilley,says the earth is cooling not warming. He explains the earth was closer to the sun 800 years ago.He shares the Milankovitch Cycles here:https://youtLi.be/sa- t1ITPnM? si=0-ubPSELxpFnAVH5 On the Boston Globe's YouTube channel,on May 14,2010,MIT Professor of Meteorology Richard Lindzen shared,"If one asks, "Is the temperature increasing or decreasing?"it's always doing one or the other.I have no concern about that.By asking people to worry about whether it's going up or down,you're immediately establishing dishonesty.The Earth is always changing.Climate change is nothing you have to prove.It always is happening.It always has happened.So,to make that into something alarming seems a little bit weird to me."Find his interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?3=pwvVel2hTIl-U Profession Lindzen also stated,"At any given place,traditionally,sea level is measured by what are called tide gauges:a stick in the water,basically.Two things that change are what a tide gauge shows:the land moving up and down and the sea moving up and down.In most places,it's the land that has the biggest effect,and so you don't have a good measure of sea level rise." On August 21,2020,NASA published an article titled"NASA-led Study Reveals the Causes of Sea Level Rise Since 1900."Find the article here:https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3012/nasa-led-study-reveals-the-causes-of-sea-level-rise-since-1900/ It reads: "Sea levels have risen on average 1.6 millimeters(0.063 inches)per year between 1900 and 2018." That means the sea level has risen a little over 7.4 inches in the last 118 years!Does that show the world is in danger of being engulfed by water?No. It shows that it will be a very,very,very long time before humans are in danger.Does that mean documentaries like"An Inconvenient Truth"are telling lies? An article was published in the Seattle Times on October 12,2007,titled"British judge ruled the Oscar-winning film on global warming,"An Inconvenient Truth,"contains"nine errors."" Here is the list of inaccuracies found in Court taken from the"Friends Of Science"website(Find the article here:https://friendsofscience.org/assets/dOCuments/FOS%20Lssay/British High Court Ruling on An Inconvenient Truth.html):. The inaccuracies in the documentary include: 1.The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming.The Government's expert was forced to concede that this is not correct. 2.The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 levels cause temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading:over that period,the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2,000 years. 3.The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming.The