About this blog

My name is Bill Hirt and I'm a candidate to be a Representative from the 48th district in the Washington State legislature. My candidacy stems from concern the legislature is not properly overseeing the WSDOT and Sound Transit East Link light rail program. I believe East Link will be a disaster for the entire eastside. ST will spend 5-6 billion on a transportation project that will increase, not decrease cross-lake congestion, violates federal environmental laws, devastates a beautiful part of residential Bellevue, creates havoc in Bellevue's central business district, and does absolutely nothing to alleviate congestion on 1-90 and 405. The only winners with East Link are the Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Washington and their labor unions.

This blog is an attempt to get more public awareness of these concerns. Many of the articles are from 3 years of failed efforts to persuade the Bellevue City Council, King County Council, east side legislators, media, and other organizations to stop this debacle. I have no illusions about being elected. My hope is voters from throughout the east side will read of my candidacy and visit this Web site. If they don't find them persuasive I know at least I tried.

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Gubernatorial Voters' Pamphlet Candidates Statement


(I posted it since the Seattle Times will likely ignore it)

My previous 8 campaigns have never been to win but to tell voters Sound Transit should've never been allowed to spend billions adding Prop 1 extensions to Central Link.  Now it's only a question of whether it's the Northgate operation in 2021 or East Link in 2023 that vindicate my concern.

This year it's to debunk claim fossil emissions are an existential threat.  That Al Gore's "Inconvenient truth" is in fact a monumental lie.  Ice core temperatures from four prior interglacial periods were higher than current levels with 300 ppm CO2 far lower than current 410 ppm. 

That during those periods the CO2 level was the result of increased out gassing from ocean when temperatures were warming and increased dissolution when temperatures were cooling.  Both warming and cooling were driven by the Sun.

It was the Sun that raised temperatures and CO2 levels after the last ice age, culminating in the Medieval Warming Period, Little Ice Age, and subsequent warming prior to significant fossil emissions.  The increased fossil emissions have added to the Sun's impact on CO2 over the last 60 years raising level to the current 410 ppm.

However it's the Sun not higher CO2 levels from increasing fossil emissions that can significantly increase global temperatures.  The ~5 gigaton carbon (GtC) annual fossil emissions currently increase CO2 by ~2ppm.  If emissions averaged 10 GtC over the next 50 years the additional 500 GtC would add 200 ppm raising the current level from 410 to 610 ppm, or from 0.041 to 0.061%, still a tiny fraction of the 96.5% CO2 that warms Venus.

My campaign and stopeastlinknow blog are to expose the futility of adding trillions more in an attempt to limit global warming by reducing that increase. 



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