Resolution for more climate change regulation presented to BOCC
by Sue Forde
June 18, 2018
It’s back – or should I say, it’s still here! The “Climate Change Advisory Group” will be reconvened by the BOCC [Clallam County Board of Commissioners] if they pass a Resolution on June 19, 2018 to suggest changes due to “possible” changes in the climate (can you say, ‘weather’?), with supposed dire effects, like storm surges, forest fires, lack of snow in the mountains and water shortages.
The sky is ‘not’ falling.
Of course, there will always be temporary weather effects due to natural events like volcanoes. But to blame people for changing the climate, and to regulate them on that premise, is just wrong.
The Resolution by the BOCC resolves that “all future updates to the Clallam County Comprehensive Plan will be informed by relevant climate change predictions and shall be amended to specifically include strategies that will reduce Clallam County’s risk exposure (related to forest fire, storm surge, etc.) while improving citizens’ ability to prepare for and address the impacts and anticipated impacts of climate change.”
After all the evidence that “global warming”, and “global cooling” didn’t have the horrible results that were predicted over these many years, the phrase has been changed to “climate change”, to cover all the bases. The thing is, the climate is ‘always’ changing! And it’s been proven over and over again, that “man” doesn’t have much control over it.
Of course, the results of these climate change scaremongers is always more property regulation, higher taxes, and more control over individual lives. Hmmm, do you think there might be an ulterior motive to all this?
In an article entitled “Six Environmental Myths To Get Rid of This Earth Day” for the Washington Policy Center (washingtonpolicy.org), Todd Meyers writes:
“The Governor’s carbon tax bill this year lamented that climate change is “already” causing Washington state to experience “depleting snowpack.”
“This claim ignores the fact that for the 2017-18 winter, snowpack finished at 119 percent of normal. It wasn’t an anomaly. Ten of the last twelve years have seen above normal snowpack in Washington state.
“The snowpack myth persists despite clear and consistent data. Former State Climatologist Mark Albright of the University of Washington charted snowpack across 223 sites across the Pacific Northwest and found average snowpack has been steady for more than 30 years. We can still believe that climate change will have future impacts, but the impulse to ignore basic data shows how politics, not science, is driving the discussion on climate policy.
Be sure to let the county commissioners know your thoughts. Several good articles about the fallacies of the scary climate change scenario can be found on on this website (search “climate change”), at nwri.org, or at citizenreviewonline.org
Click here to read the proposed Resolution:Climate Change Resolution, BOCC meeting, 6.19.2018