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.

Friday, July 17, 2020

My Global Warming Denier Gubernatorial Platform


My Voters’ Pamphlet Statement this year reflects my attempt as a gubernatorial candidate to tell the widest possible audience Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” about CO2 emissions is in fact a monumental lie.   My hope was to use the general election as a platform to debunk Gov Inslee, one of the most prominent advocates for "CO2 emissions are an existential threat”.   

The reality is the Seattle Times decision to promote “Republican leaders” choice fractures the anti-Tim Eyman vote and other candidates willingness to spend funds on totally futile attempts to defeat Inslee make it less likely I’ll be on the ballot this fall. 

It's unfortunate since none of the other campaign ads I’ve seen have dealt with Sound Transit and WSDOT failure to reduce congestion or Seattle Times abetting that failure.  Also no one has mentioned the futility of Inslee's attempts to reduce the state’s carbon emissions with windmills, solar panels, or battery powered cars as the way to reduce global warming.

My global warming denier platform debunking the CO2 emission concerns would rely on two sources. (Replacing earlier analysis in Voters' Pamphlet) The first would be a National Academy of Science Nov 10th 2015 paper:

Shortwave and Longwave Radiative Contributions to Global Warming Under Increasing CO2

The paper concluded:

Altogether, these results suggest that, although greenhouse gas forcing predominantly acts to reduce Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR), the resulting global warming is likely caused by enhanced Absorbed Solar Radiation (ASR)


The NAS clearly concluded global warming was the result of increased warming from the Sun not from increased radiation from the atmosphere due to CO2.

The second was a NASA Dec 9th 2019 paper “Solar Cycle 25 Prediction 2019 – Bing”.  It included charts concluding the following:

Global Warming Ruse - Temperatures Getting Colder. CO2 is not a player

CO2 warning is a myth. The real threat is cold beginning of a new little ice age epoch in 2020.

It’s going to the cold for a very long time

CO2 warming effect decreases with concentration. CO2 has less and less effect with increased concentration.   CO2 can go to 1,000 to 2000 or to 5,000 and it won’t warm the earth. 

I look forward to the opportunity of using NAS and NASA to support my "global warming denier"  platform this fall.


2 comments:

  1. So, you either didn't actually read the science behind this, or cherry-picked the data to get a confirmation bias on your end, and you are deliberately using a political platform to misinform people looking for actual change in your state, when there is an overwhelming majority of scientific consensus across various fields of scientific study that actually confirms what global climate change is?

    It isn't just warming. It is extreme weather shifts, stronger storms, melting polar ice sheets, glacial melts, rising ocean levels, mass extinction, increases in droughts, changes in the jet stream. You're using a political platform in poor faith, to spread bad information, and harming actual science.

    Please stop. You're not helping anyone. Please.

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  2. No one questions the climate is changing. its been doing so for countless millenniums. Fossil fuel CO2 emissions are not the reason.

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