County/ICLEI Emissions Report 2009,

and Local Climate Action Planning

Process Report 2011“The Missing Conversation”

October 5, 2011Comments

by

Charles BattigVA-Scientists and Engineers for Energy and

Environment

ICLEI “Drop Outs” Growing• Spartanburg, SC• Georgetown, TX• Carver, MA• Montgomery

County, PA• Edmond, OK• Carroll County, MD• Norman, OK

• Garland ,TX• James City County,

VA• Amador County, CA• Pinellas, FL• Oklahoma City, OK• Albemarle County, VA• Lexington, VA

The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) (The Gold Standard

Of Environmentalists’ Policy), Speaks:

“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore”*

*IPCC lead author and chairman of WG 3, Dr. Ottmar Eden-Hofer , November 13, 2010 interview

“Conduct A Baseline Emission Inventory” = ICLEI Milestone One

ICLEI Was There

Taken From Page 16 Of The 2009 County of Albemarle Baseline

Emissions Report

Final Report “Local Climate Action Planning Process (LCAPP)” : Agenda Item - Albemarle

County BOS September 7, 2011 (no public comments allowed; no “conversation”)

• It may be labeled “local,” but this report mirrors Milestone Three of the ICLEI Program/Process

• The county staff presentation muddled the terms: energy, emissions, carbon, carbon emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide equivalents, and gave no coherent definitions nor scientific linkages to claimed climate impacts

Same Year 2000; Different NumbersWho Knows What Or Whom To Believe?

Page 40 of Albemarle County 2009 Emissions Baseline Report Page two of LCAPP 2011 Report

How Does The County Measure “The Climate”?

• These county documents speak of climate stabilization and climate action plans but give no definition of the climate or how the county is measuring it

• What has been the measured change in the climate that the county has achieved since 2000?, 2007?

LCAPP Report, Continued • Section 1.0 Introduction and Background: “human

induced climate change is occurring” • This is a scientifically meaningless statement; there is

no definition of what human activity ( land use? aerosol generation? soot?)

• There is no documentation of how much is claimed from human activity and how much is from natural sources

• The referenced IPCC admits that there has been no global warming for the past 10-15 years even as world-wide emissions continue to increase

The Un-Elected LCAPP Steering Committee:All Special Interest “Stakeholders”; No One From The

Tax Paying Public Is There

What Next For The LCAPP?• Milestone four of the county-ICLEI five milestone

plan is: “Implement the local action plan”• The LCAPP Five-Part Framework “Recommended

Next Steps” includes “to inform Comprehensive and other planning efforts” …whose planning efforts?

• Implementation of these efforts is presented as voluntary, at this stage

• The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission is funded by H.U.D to change the County Comprehensive Plan as its stated goal, and to make code changes to enforce them

Vital Albemarle County ChoicesBecome A UVA Student Project “Research Panel”

LCAPP Has Done A Great Job• Their 18 month effort has done an excellent job of

educating the public, local industry, and the university that the more energy one uses, the more one’s energy bill goes up

• Voluntary measures to reduce energy consumption are directly reflected at the gas pump and monthly gas/electric bill without elaborate and unreliable CO2 equivalent computations by “stakeholder” third parties

• It is not a core function of County government to set emission standards for the public

Tell It To The Sierra Club

50+ U.N. IPCC Scientists Disavow IPCC Faulty Manmade Climate Claims

Identifiable Consensus

2007–Albemarle Joins “Cool Counties”;2007-Al Gore’s Climate Claims Thrown

Out In England As “Political Propaganda”

2011: What Has Been Learned Since 2007?It’s The Sun, Cosmic Rays, and Clouds

It’s Not All About Carbon Dioxide Equivalents

science Not Personal Opinion

Conserve EnergyConserve The EnvironmentConserve Taxpayer Dollars

Reduce The Unwarranted, Top-Down Bureaucracy Of The Un-elected Planners

and Special Interest Groups Using Yesterday’s Climate Scare Stories To Implement Needless And Intrusive

Legislation