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6A Daily News – Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Opinion DAILYNEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Greg Stevens, Publisher gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Chip Thompson, Editor editor@redbluffdailynews.com Editorial policy The Daily News opinion is expressed in the editorial. The opinions expressed in columns, letters and cartoons are those of the authors and artists. Letter policy The Daily News welcomes let- ters from its readers on timely topics of public interest. All let- ters must be signed and pro- vide the writer's home street address and home phone num- ber. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and cannot exceed two double-spaced pages or 500 words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section of those submit- ted will be considered for publi- cation. Letters will be edited. Letters are published at the discretion of the editor. 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We appreciate you taking the time to read this letter and apol- ogize for any confusion. On behalf of the entire Red Bluff High School Cheer team, Ashlan Brunello and Chase Feusi, Red Bluff A big thank you is in order to this community. We needed to raise money to help two special needs dogs at the Tehama Animal Care Center: Angie and Odie, who are both heart-worm pos- itive. Thanks Editor: center and then to Manton. Thank you everyone. Sharon Russell, Red Bluff To the thieves Editor: To the thieves that robbed me. Thanks to the generosity of this community, at an adop- tion event and via email, PETS raised enough to pay for the treatment for both dogs, plus pay for Odie's neu- tering. Thanks a lot for taking everything I worked two jobs all my life for. I am a Vietnam veteran, I live on my Social Security. I worked very long hours Then came the Ponderosa Fire and once again there were items needed for the people and their animals and pets displaced by a fire. We put out a call on our Facebook page and at the Farmer's Mar- ket and were able to take up two large loads of pet food, dishes, water, and other need- ed items to the evacuation and many years to have a 1996 truck to drive and my girl- friend worked hard for her car and you put us on foot getting around then you take my elec- trical power supply. We only have solar panels and batteries and inverters for power and a generator for rainy days, since you stole that we have no power at all now. There are no power lines here. You took five panels. You also took most of my tools and portable welder that I needed to build my gates and water tower, we have no well. You then Your Turn large truck and cut the wiring. I hope when you retire someone destroys your life. Now I can not ranch any- You even tried to take my more. I hope you get caught and go to jail for a long time. Your drugs are more impor- tant than someone's life, at least to you. Grow up and be responsible for once in your life. Thanks Gov. Brown for turning loose all these prison- ers to rob and kill us. Lee Ogle, Corning Your officials STATE ASSEMBLYMAN — Jim Nielsen (R) State Capitol Bldg., Room 6031 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 319-2002; Fax (916) 319-2102 STATE SENATOR — Doug LaMalfa (R) State Capitol Bldg., Room 3070 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 651-4004; Fax (916) 445-7750 GOVERNOR — Jerry Brown, State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 445-2841; Fax (916) 558-3160; E-mail: gover- nor@governor.ca.gov. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE — Wally Herger (R), 2595 Cean- othus Ave., Ste. 182, Chico, CA 95973; 893-8363. U.S.SENATORS — Dianne Feinstein (D), One Post Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 393-0707. Fax (415) 393-0710. Barbara Boxer (D), 1700 Montgomery St., Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94111; (510) 286-8537. Fax (202) 224- 0454. Lost jobs, economic decline over CO2 targets Commentary Tonight's Tea Party Patriots meeting will have a timely pre- sentation by Elizabeth Wood- ward, who will explain how the Election Integrity Project works. This project has made tremen- dous strides to ensure fair elec- tions. Mission statement: "The Election Integrity Project is a group of citizen volunteers seek- ing to fulfill our responsibility to actively participate in our Republic and ensure the integri- ty of the process that protects our freedoms and our way of life." Find out more at http:\\electionintegrityproject.co m. global-warming-hysteria-driven California public policy, the headline summed up what should be glaringly obvious: "Study: Families and state's economy to pay dearly for glob- al warming policies." The sub headline further stated: "In 2020, families will pay annual hidden tax of $2,500; state and local annual lost revenue to hit $7.4 billion." (Stephen Frank's blog http://capoliticalnews.com/2012 /07/27/) "These policies will create a large but hidden tax on families and will add new bur- dens to a fragile state economy," said Jack Stewart, president of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association (CMTA). Getting back to the costs of lions." Passed in 2006, AB 32 puts a statewide cap on emis- sions that the warming alarmists believe are responsible for cli- mate change. I've stated that there has been Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, will, in addition to costing families annually between $1,300 (the "low case") and $4,500 (the "high case"), also result in annual lost earn- ings of $900 by 2020. "The costs to families will start to mount immediately in 2013. Losses to employers and the state's econo- my will be counted in the bil- no net warming in over 10 years. One chart shows none since 1979, according to the graph "LOWER TROPOSPHERE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE: 1979-2008" from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, with subsequent readings continuing a downward trend through Octo- ber 2011. The subtitle of the graph further explains, "Since 2005, global temperatures have given back most of the warming that had occurred since 1980." Roy Spencer, PhD, has a graph showing a 33-year net 0.25 degree Celsius increase. Graphs of extreme weather events such as tornados and hurricanes also show no increasing trend; what has increased, however, is media and news coverage due to tech- nological advances. "The study also shows that by 2020, California will have 262,000 fewer jobs and 5.6 per- cent less gross state product …" Those projections, as well as the $7.4 billion decline in tax rev- enue, are "based on an 'opti- mistic' scenario, where costs for each policy are assumed to be at the low end of a range of expect- ed costs and the environmental goals are achieved." That assumes there will be plenty of low-carbon fuels, limited demand outside of California for those same fuels, 2.5 percent energy efficiency improvements and "a significant reduction in vehicle miles traveled. Unfortu- nately, in the less-optimistic- but-probably-more-realistic sce- nario, per family costs rise to the aforementioned $4,500, while state and local revenues decline by $38.8 billion. Bear in mind that no other states will follow us over the "cap and tax" cliff, and Republi- cans in Washington will never subject America to a national version of California's lunacy. Not to worry, however, because if anyone starts to have second thoughts about legislative man- dates, caps, costs and the impossible and unreliable goal of get- ting one-third of our electricity from "renewables," Gov. Jerry Brown has launched a state-spon- sored and funded web- site to refute climate change skeptics. Don Polson The way I see it Meanwhile, scientists Richard Lindzen of MIT, Will Happer of Princeton and Roger Cohen of the American Physical Society penned an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, disput- ing fellow scientist Fred Krupp's admonishment to conservatives and Republicans to get on the global warming bandwagon because, you see, only those on the political right resist the cli- mate alarmist movement. They wrote, "Some of the most formidable opponents of climate hysteria include the politically liberal physics Nobel laureate, Ivar Giaever; famously independent physicist and author, Freeman Dyson; envi- ronmentalist futurist, and father of the Gaia Hypothesis, James Lovelock; left-center chemist, Fritz Vahrenholt, one of the fathers of the German environ- mental movement, and many others who would bristle at being lumped into the conserva- tive camp … society, not elaborately orches- trated, phony ones, like the trumped-up need to drastically curtail CO2 emissions. Ask yourself how much sense "It is increasingly clear that doubling CO2 is unlikely to increase global temperature more than about one degree Celsius, not the much larger values touted by the global warming establish- ment. In fact, CO2 levels are below the optimum levels for most plants, and there are persuasive argu- ments that the mild warming and increased agricultural yields from doubling CO2 will be an overall benefit for humanity. Let us debate and deal with serious, real problems facing our destroyed what you did not steal, you broke our table and broke our cabinets and drawers in our 28-foot trailer. it makes to impose monumental costs and economic dislocations and hardships in the futile pur- suit of some magical number of parts-per-million (ppm) of CO2 molecules. Do you realize that the difference between 300 and 400 ppm over the course of 100 years would be like having a $10,003 investment grow to $10,004 over a century? I challenge any of our enviro- liberalists to admit that they would favor global warming car- bon capping policies no matter the disastrous impacts to Cali- fornia, America and our citi- zens, while weakening Ameri- ca's economic standing and power in the world. Don Polson has called Red Bluff home since 1988. He can be reached by e-mail at donplsn@yahoo.com.