Earlier this month, Pres. Obama
established by Executive Order a task force of local, state, and federal
officials to consider strategies for protecting the nation from scorching heat,
sea level rise, wildfires, droughts, floods, and storms.
This is good, but we have to be careful of the usual problem that government does things to excess. In this case, the study is said to be related to climate change, which is not a problem to me, because we have had climate change in the past and will have it in the future, similar to changes in weather. We will not be able to control these changes, but we can be prepared for their effects. The simplest example familiar to everyone is the fact that our houses have roofs to protect against occasional rain and snow.
Of the six items mentioned above, only two need further explanation. The inclusion of "sea level rise" is done with the implication that glaciers will be melting and ocean levels will rise. That's so much baloney. However, we do need to protect against excessive high tides caused by storm surges and tsunamis caused by undersea earthquakes. The reference also to storms should be specified as windstorms, since floods were previously listed.
Now comes the bad part. As I mentioned previously concerning government excess, we can't even control weather and yet Pres. Obama wants to control climate. He has the EPA proposing to cut carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fire power plants. He presumably thinks, for some unfathomable reason that trace amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have some magical effect on climate.
The task force will include governors of eight states, 16 local officials and two tribal representatives who are supposed to come up with recommendations in a year to modernize federal, state and local programs to avoid or better protect against climate-related disasters. As long as the task force stays within its bounds to protect against the weather related items mentioned above, we are on safe ground, even though Pres. Obama likes to call them man-made-climate change items.
This is good, but we have to be careful of the usual problem that government does things to excess. In this case, the study is said to be related to climate change, which is not a problem to me, because we have had climate change in the past and will have it in the future, similar to changes in weather. We will not be able to control these changes, but we can be prepared for their effects. The simplest example familiar to everyone is the fact that our houses have roofs to protect against occasional rain and snow.
Of the six items mentioned above, only two need further explanation. The inclusion of "sea level rise" is done with the implication that glaciers will be melting and ocean levels will rise. That's so much baloney. However, we do need to protect against excessive high tides caused by storm surges and tsunamis caused by undersea earthquakes. The reference also to storms should be specified as windstorms, since floods were previously listed.
Now comes the bad part. As I mentioned previously concerning government excess, we can't even control weather and yet Pres. Obama wants to control climate. He has the EPA proposing to cut carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fire power plants. He presumably thinks, for some unfathomable reason that trace amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have some magical effect on climate.
The task force will include governors of eight states, 16 local officials and two tribal representatives who are supposed to come up with recommendations in a year to modernize federal, state and local programs to avoid or better protect against climate-related disasters. As long as the task force stays within its bounds to protect against the weather related items mentioned above, we are on safe ground, even though Pres. Obama likes to call them man-made-climate change items.
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