HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0372.099 2024-2026From: Sophia's Mom
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2025 12:23 PM o
To: Council Testimony a CD c
Subject: Testimony for Bill 66 GP re: Climate Change i
Aloha Honorable Member of the Hawaii County Council & Chairperson Naba=,?
Please note those who are not connected with the profits of the largest -'
corporations & their very wealthy, who have decided that the business model
shall be the governmental model and we, its people need to be manipulated to fit
into that model. A LOT of marketing went into this Climate Change agenda...
Those who are courageous and have the intelligence to look at the fear tactics
with their own sentient critical natures, disagree with the climate model. Two of
them below I share a brief part of a meaningful conversation you can access
at:hLtps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJwUalLpYY&-t=l.tios
Climate I: Is The Debate Over?
Richard Lindzen is a professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
In 2oog Richard wrote that I quote "There has been no statistically significant net
global warming for the last 14 years."
We did have at least according to the records of surface data used by NASA, the
climate Research Unit in England and NOAH an increase in temperature from
the late'70s through the'gos and that brought one to a high point in
the record. Remember we're talking about an ioth's of a degree here. We're we're
not talking
about anything very large. It's a magnitude that almost all of us experience oh I
would say 30 times
as much each day. So you reached a high point in the record ,in the gos and it's
done.
Nothing since then at least not statistically significant because each
of these points has a fairly large error bar and so it's been flat since then.
That's completely consistent with the statement that the last decade is the
warmest in the record. It is just there's
been no Trend in it. Now you could argue maybe Trends should be done over
longer Comm.NPIM
periods. Then it should be longer than 30 years, so we're not ReP. ra:
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turning normal variations into the ancient notion of an omen where scanning
this small residue for small changes and speaking of them as though they were
ominous signs of something or other. Hadi, do you find that explanation
persuasive?
Hadi I think you have an accurate explanation. I think the problem we face is
that it's a
complicated process leading to global average temperatures and to
measure the anomaly on these small amounts and then to Proclaim 'Doom and
Gloom' over the long term
term is oversimplifying the challenge. I don't know, for example, how much of the
instability over the last decade has to do with the huge amount of aerosols being
generated in the newly industrialized
Far East and all the other related stuff that can affect the signal on a
year-to-year basis when many processes do affect it on a decade and
centurylength.
Hadi Dowlatabadi as Richard and I have both said in the past um uh
sometimes in
what is accept able for planet Earth.
We've seen from this graph that over the last 25 years we're now up to about 387
parts
per million which for those who say global warming is upon us and it's because of
us, they say that's a
dangerous level. What do you say on that, Hadi? I would more or less echo
what Richard was saying historically CO2levels have been much much higher
and the beginning of life on Earth was at a time just like that. So I would
like to differentiate between arbitrary thresholds like 350 parts
per million of CO2 and kind of gross exaggerations of life on earth and its
consequence for life on Earth. I don't you know so let's let's get straight down to
the Brass tax here I do not
believe that 400 parts per million will be the end of life on Earth As We Know IT.
It is as Richard said we experience all sorts of climates and there's all sorts
of ecosystems and all sorts of human communities in all sorts of climatic
conditions and none of the things that
I've seen in any of the predictions whether they paint the maps red or they paint
them green mean that it's the end
of the Earth as we know it U what I do want to come back to though is that the
Another statement in this lecture that (paraphrased) 'marketing has obsessed on
the climate changes with no logic behind it'.
In agreement with the above is: Hadi Dowlatabadi is Canada research
chair and professor in Applied Mathematics & Global Change at the
University of British Columbia.
Mahalo for your consideration
subject of climate change,
April Lee
Hawi, HI
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