CARB getting serious

old time "But you are supposed to feel guilty for being a carbon consuming human."

Who said that? Not happening. Besides, humans are carbon, why feel guilt?

 

They can do as they please. I took Cali off my registration and I won't be back!

 

I don't agree with this position, Lone Ranger. The media feeding on global warming has been disgusting, agreed. I don't think that's a reason to deny melting ice and unpredictable, intense weather patterns. For me, I don't care about former warming periods. Stuff like acid rain - is that a myth? No, it isn't a myth. Or, sterile rivers, no fish or plant life, is that a myth? No, it is not a myth. I'm old now, and I remember when an early environmentalist lit the (I think) Hudson river on fire just to demonstrate how harmful and destructive industrial dumping really is. On fire! There are fish now, and plant life, and that's not because it was an "imaginary crisis." It's because some concerned Americans did something about it. Do you know that our wild bird populations are down about 50%? More in some cases, species are disappearing. Is that "an imaginary crisis?" No, it is a real crisis. Birds contribute a huge amount of help with destructive insect life, and in a lot of other areas. Food producing areas. We face a long, sad list of threatened, endangered, or extinct wild species, creatures who have a right to life that we've just stomped into the ground. Is that "an imaginary crisis?" No, it's an absolute sorrow. I would love to be able to tell my grandchildren, who are already in high school, "we were proud to take care of the world and leave some of it's beautiful creatures and wilderness for you." So the global warming issue, and all the environmental issues, are not "imaginary." They're real. I was in the woods with the Spotted Owl, working a chain saw. It wasn't about the owls, it was about the natural environment that supported the entire ecosystem. The owls were a metaphor for keeping that last 3% of natural forest intact. Is that "an imaginary crisis?" No. If we let the logging industry cut off the last old growth forest, we'll tell our grandchildren, and all future generations, "sorry. We needed the money." My $.02.

In conclusion, I do all I can as an individual to cooperate with protecting and being responsible for our natural world. Would our world be a better place if we all helped out? Yes, it would, it would be a LOT better. It's up to us as individuals to take care of our heritage, our world, our children, and our culture. It's not up to "Them," or "The government." Yup.

 

It's an apples to oranges comparison weather versus pollution. The weather has been unpredictable and intense at different times for a few billion years. The Sahara desert was a tropical paradise at one time and Antartica too. To say that humans have THAT kind of impact on weather because of carbon emmisions is crazy. Melting ice or growing ice, these things are nothing new. Ice ages and retreats are natural cycles.

 

If you pick up or deliver in Cali at night, don't worry, CARB only has less the 100 officers to enforce, and they only work Monday-Friday 8-5

 

Wyoming used to have a tropical climate.

The earth is constantly changing. The dinosaurs were extinct before man even arrived. Some animals become extinct. The strong survive. That's the way it is.

In the last several years human carbon dioxide production has increased substantially due in large part to developing nations like China and India. Yet the world average temperature seems to be holding steady.

We only have a few hundred years of recorded weather history. The earth is billions of years old. Why is our current temperature the right one?