Comments on: Facts not in evidence http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/08/01/left-society-science-pollution-clue/ Digging for golden resonance, and resonant gold Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:01:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: harmonicminer http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/08/01/left-society-science-pollution-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-2143 harmonicminer Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:21:05 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/08/01/left-society-science-pollution-clue/#comment-2143 Curtis, thanks for some very informed commentary. I hope you keep reading the blog and commenting as the urge strikes. Curtis, thanks for some very informed commentary. I hope you keep reading the blog and commenting as the urge strikes.

]]> By: Curtis Belk http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/08/01/left-society-science-pollution-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-2142 Curtis Belk Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:13:31 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/08/01/left-society-science-pollution-clue/#comment-2142 This problem of stakeholders, such as CLUE, wishing to curtail industry has been going on in California for sometime now. The Air Quality Mgmt District has been working to promote reduced PM10 (particulate matter at 10 microns) and PM2.5 (particulate matter at 2.5 microns) since 1985, their impetus being a study done at Kaiser Hospital that was rather anecdotal, an emergency room doctor commented on the increased number of emergency room visits for respiratory distress that he attributed to dust when the wind blows. (Nobody ever bothered to think of transmigrating pollens from the High Desert) From this beginning the AQMD has published over the past few years data, that seems to have no foundation in reality, stating that reductions of PM have in one instance reduced premature death by 4,200 per year and now with the passage of AB32 will further reduce premature death by another 10,000 per year. The difficulty of "reducing premature death" is somewhat along the lines of "saving or creating jobs," creating jobs can be measured, but measuring saved jobs, I'm not so sure about that. Premature death is that unmeasurable thing that Government offices like because it sounds good but means nothing. Just like reducing trucks at Long Beach Port, AB32 is working to eliminate older trucks off of California highways. The damage that this will do to small business will be catastrophic. The testimony before CARB was all but ignored when they voted unanimously to submit AB32. Since then SB295 was introduced to counter some of the damage that will be done by this draconian legislation, but SB295 was shelved by the liberal side of the CA Senate even though it had the support of most all of the Chamber of Commerce's of California. As a California businessman i have come to the conclusion that environmentalism has become the tail that wages the dog, misrepresenting the truth is the stock in trade of those who wish to harm our country. I have further come to the conclusion that liberalism will use any straw man, undocumented cases of asthma, outrageous PM10 and PM2.5 data, anthropogenic carbon creation, and the such to scare the uniformed masses into assisting them in the creation of their idea of utopia. It is nice to see someone from the university campus willing to point out the fallacies of liberal thinking. This problem of stakeholders, such as CLUE, wishing to curtail industry has been going on in California for sometime now. The Air Quality Mgmt District has been working to promote reduced PM10 (particulate matter at 10 microns) and PM2.5 (particulate matter at 2.5 microns) since 1985, their impetus being a study done at Kaiser Hospital that was rather anecdotal, an emergency room doctor commented on the increased number of emergency room visits for respiratory distress that he attributed to dust when the wind blows. (Nobody ever bothered to think of transmigrating pollens from the High Desert) From this beginning the AQMD has published over the past few years data, that seems to have no foundation in reality, stating that reductions of PM have in one instance reduced premature death by 4,200 per year and now with the passage of AB32 will further reduce premature death by another 10,000 per year. The difficulty of “reducing premature death” is somewhat along the lines of “saving or creating jobs,” creating jobs can be measured, but measuring saved jobs, I’m not so sure about that. Premature death is that unmeasurable thing that Government offices like because it sounds good but means nothing. Just like reducing trucks at Long Beach Port, AB32 is working to eliminate older trucks off of California highways. The damage that this will do to small business will be catastrophic. The testimony before CARB was all but ignored when they voted unanimously to submit AB32. Since then SB295 was introduced to counter some of the damage that will be done by this draconian legislation, but SB295 was shelved by the liberal side of the CA Senate even though it had the support of most all of the Chamber of Commerce’s of California. As a California businessman i have come to the conclusion that environmentalism has become the tail that wages the dog, misrepresenting the truth is the stock in trade of those who wish to harm our country.

I have further come to the conclusion that liberalism will use any straw man, undocumented cases of asthma, outrageous PM10 and PM2.5 data, anthropogenic carbon creation, and the such to scare the uniformed masses into assisting them in the creation of their idea of utopia. It is nice to see someone from the university campus willing to point out the fallacies of liberal thinking.

]]> By: enharmonic http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/08/01/left-society-science-pollution-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-2103 enharmonic Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:25:29 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/08/01/left-society-science-pollution-clue/#comment-2103 Is CLUE an orgianization designed to attract the "Clueless"? Is CLUE an orgianization designed to attract the “Clueless”?

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