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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.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

“Scientists” ignore Global Warming Realities.




I’m a retired Boeing engineer so have no claim for climate expertise.  However it doesn’t take much expertise to point out global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels “raise questions” about the claim fossil emissions are an "existential threat"   In particular the claim fossil CO2 emissions have 10 times the impact on global temperatures as increasing warming from the Sun.

A plot of global temperatures from 1850 to 2018 shows the temperatures increased between 1920 and 1950, before significant CO2 emissions, at the same rate as from 1970 to 2018 with far higher levels.  That between 1950 and 1970 temperatures went down despite fossil emissions doubling (the climatologists CO2 fossil driven ice age concern).  Temperature increased from1990 to 2018 at the same rate as from 1970 to 1990 despite the 70% increase in fossil CO2 emissions.  “Scientists” apparently haven't recognized global temperatures over the last 100 years have failed to reflect the purported sensitivity to fossil emissions. 

Vostek Ice core data provided global temperature and CO2 levels for five Interglacial periods over the last 450,000 years.  The peak global temperatures for the previous four periods were higher than current levels with CO2 concentrations all less than 300 ppm.  The peak temperature for the Eemian, the period preceding current period, was 4 degrees higher than current temperatures with 290 ppm CO2. How do “Scientists” explain the significantly higher global temperatures with CO2 concentrations far lower than our current 410 ppm?

Also how do “Scientists” explain why CO2 levels on the previous four interglacial periods dropped back to prior levels?  Why don’t they recognize the reason for the return to lower levels is also the reason for the lag between global temperature increases and CO2 increases?  That increasing global temperatures, driven by the Sun, increase CO2 out gassing from ocean, raising CO2 on the way up.  That lower global temperatures, again driven by the Sun, increase CO2 dissolution into the ocean lowering levels on the way down. 

Fossil emissions over the last 80 years have dramatically increased current CO2 levels. However “Scientists” need to recognize fossil emissions have a minuscule impact on global temperatures.  The 5 gigatons of carbon (GtC) currently added have increased CO2 by 2 ppm.  If emissions doubled over the next 50 years the 500 GtC would increase CO2 from 420 ppm to 620 ppm or 0.062%. CO2 warms Venus because it’s 96.5% of the atmosphere.  Where is the evidence an increase from .042% to .062% will have any effect?

None of this is particularly complicated, yet 96% of “Scientists” still believe fossil emissions are a threat.  Countless attempts to get response to these conclusions have simply been ignored.  They’ve included prominent global warming advocates like Michael Mann and James Hanson and environmental science departments at MIT, Colorado and even Western Washington. Scientific America, National Academy of Science, Climate Change Action Committee, Wikipedia.   Even purported deniers like What’s up with that, the Hoover Institute, Heartland Institute, Science and Environmental Policy Project and others have refused to respond or ignored my submissions. 

The bottom line is unless I can convince one or more of those organizations to become part of the solution rather than part of the problem I'm left to use the Candidate's Statement in the Voters' Pamphlet.

Part of my gubernatorial campaign against one of the most prominent global warming advocates to expose the “Scientists” failure to recognize Al Gore’s “Inconvenient truth” is a monumental lie.


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