Letter to the Editor: Reps Vic and Hoff are Right on HB 1110

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In response to the editorial, “WA Can’t Afford Dems Low-Carbon Fuel Mandate,” by Reps Brandon Vick and Larry Hoff and printed in The Chronicle on Feb. 13, Reps Hoff and Vick of Washington’s 18th Legislative District point out that Jay Inslee and Democrats are hard of hearing and head.  

In HB1110, Dems task Ecology to design a harmful (to Citizens’ wallets) program to reduce carbon content of fuels. This boosts fuel prices way up so only the “Democrat-Socialist-Ruling-Class” can afford to drive. 

 Global Warming is only caused by the sun; it deposits enough heat on Earth and its oceans to effect warming. In 1990, the sun deposited 4.18 times (10 exponent 24) Joules, the equivalent energy to one billion nukes, each with one million tons of TNT yield.  GW is now fini for ~100 years.  Earth can’t overheat unless the sun has already (IQ=70 folks comprehend). It didn’t happen in 4 billion years and won’t. The sun shifted to cooling. We are now in Mini-Ice-Age No. 19 of the last 7,500 years.  

 Earth temp is not a function of atmospheric CO2 content. One deep ocean hot spring can put out more CO2 than a thousand-megawatt coal-fired power plant and there are tens of thousands of these hot springs in ocean depths where Earth’s crustal plates are pulling apart.  Released CO2 is instantly absorbed in cold water. CO2 from associated volcanoes is additional.  CO2 density in air is driven by ocean evaporation. CO2 is not an environmental problem.   

HB1110 is silly; clever as a box of rocks. Global Warming happens when the sun deposits more Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) heat on earth and oceans than needed to maintain Earth Annual Average Temperature, (EAAT).  Sun TSI is now decreasing on the same curve as the Maunder Sunspot Minimum and Mini-Ice-Age of 1645 to 1715AD.  Since the sun is cooling, Earth and Mars are also cooling. Earth climate has changed to global cooling.  Max cooling will occur ~2060AD; subsequently the sun, as designed, will start to warm.  Sunspots will re-appear; Earth and Mars will warm up.  Antarctic Ice core records for the last 800,000 years show CO2 never increases before Earth and Oceans warm up.  Sun TSI increases over years causes global warming, not CO2 increases. 

Note: We had the Wolf, Sporer, Maunder and Dalton Sunspot Minimums and Mini-Ice-Ages within the Little Ice Age from 1280 to 1830 AD.  

The sun TSI deposits [~1.145 times 10 exponent 22] Joules per day on the Earth and oceans.  CO2 contributes nothing to the Earth heat balance equation. 



 We understand Washington Democrats are not interested in solving a problem for the people; they want more money to waste on Socialist programs and Inslee’s re-election. The amount of interest Gov. Inslee accumulated in his “run for president” using global warming/climate change tells you the believability of that issue, namely zero.

 Larry Hoff and Brandon Vick are correct, and we need 10X more CO2 in this Mini-Ice-Age #19 than the 415 parts per million we now have.  CO2 in air is unlikely to exceed 450 ppm in 2100AD even with China and India building out their coal power plants.

Citizens must loudly contest HB 1110 or pay $4-plus per gallon of fuel.

 

John F. Cramer 

Onalaska