Letter Writer Claims, ‘Humboldt County Undermines Climate Action Plan’
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Humboldt County environmental advocates are demanding that local jurisdictions take climate planning seriously. Spurred by the advocacy of local environmental groups, Humboldt County began developing a regional Climate Action Plan five years ago. In those five years, worldwide atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased by ten parts per million (from 408 to 418 ppm). Meanwhile, a draft plan released in April 2022 has languished, and now Humboldt County is proposing to weaken the Climate Action Plan by adopting fuzzy math to limit the amount of climate action necessary to meet state targets.
Humboldt County is proposing to ignore state guidance that directs jurisdictions to avoid quantifying point source emissions in their Climate Action Plans because local jurisdictions are generally preempted from regulating these kinds of emissions. By including point source emissions, Humboldt County can claim climate action without actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here’s how: Climate targets are based off of 1990 emissions estimates. Since 1990, and unrelated to climate change, a number of large point sources of greenhouse gas emissions have closed, like the Samoa pulp mill in 2008. As a result, by considering point source emissions like the Samoa pulp mill, Humboldt County is proposing to claim that it has already met or almost met its greenhouse gas reduction targets without reducing current emissions at all.
Climate activists are furious at the misdirection.
“Through clever accounting, Humboldt County is proposing a Climate Action Plan that fails to actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ” said Matt Simmons, Staff Attorney at the Environmental Protection Information Center. “We know that climate change is directly impacting the North Coast, from sea level rise to warmer waters in salmon-bearing rivers to increased fire behavior. Failure to plan for emissions reductions fails Humboldt.”
“Through this climate bait-and-switch, Humboldt County is only making attainment of future climate reduction targets more difficult,” said Colin Fiske, Executive Director of the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities. “We are obligated to reach net-zero emissions by 2045. The path to reach that target is virtually impossible without ambitious action now.”
“Rising ocean temperatures are harming a wide range of marine organisms off our coast, and the Humboldt Bay area is ground zero for impacts from sea level rise, which is increasing at roughly double the rate of other areas, threatening our remaining salt marshes and other ecosystems that make the Bay so unique,” said Jen Kalt, Executive Director of Humboldt Baykeeper. “Humboldt County needs to be part of the global solution to climate change and that means actual emissions reductions.”
“We know what we need to do to reduce our emissions and fight the climate crisis—we need more walkable communities, more bike infrastructure, more public transit, and less sprawl—but apparently Humboldt County lacks the will to actually do what is necessary,” said Caroline Griffith, Executive Director of the Northcoast Environmental Center. “This is a failure of leadership, not of science.”
“Climate change is already wreaking havoc on people in this country with fires, floods, drought, and extreme heat,” said Nancy Ihara of the 350 Humboldt Steering Committee. “It is hard to imagine that an imperfect, but at least aspirational document, Humboldt County’s draft CAP is to be replaced by one that does almost nothing. Let’s pick our highest priorities and get them done!”
Climate advocates point to other areas where Humboldt County has failed to take climate change seriously. The county has yet to create a single staff position dedicated to climate action. In 2019, the Board of Supervisors moved to create a Climate Advisory Committee. Climate activists are still waiting for that committee to be formed. Environmental advocates had to threaten litigation to force the incorporation of greenhouse gas reduction measures for the North McKay Subdivision. One of the Humboldt County Planning Commissioners has expressed a belief that climate action was part of “Agenda 21” an “extremist conspiracy theory about a secret plot to impose a totalitarian world government in the name of environmentalism,” as summarized by the Lost Coast Outpost. And if the county doesn’t get its act together and adopt a serious Climate Action Plan soon, it will also be leaving money on the table – like the $4.6 billion in federal Climate Pollution Reduction Grants available to communities that have adopted a plan by March of next year.
“Environmental voters are going to be looking at what elected officials actually do to fight the climate crisis,” said Melodie Meyer, co-director of the Redwood Coalition for Climate and Environmental Responsibility. “We are tired of empty promises. We need leaders to actually lead.”
[Matthew SimmonsStaff Attorney
Environmental Protection Information Center]
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If this guy thinks that Humboldt County has not reduced it’s emissions, he is sorely out of touch, and had no business being in a leadership position, nor in a decision making one.
“We need more walkable communities”…???
WTF…???
We need to support the communities that we already have, and that is not conducive to a flatlander mentality like this greenhorn’s attitude.
If this guy thinks that Humboldt County is “walkable”, then he needs to take a hike.
I live more than 10 miles from a gallon of milk, with more than 3,000 feet of elevation change, and months of inclement, even impassable weather, even in a 4 wheel drive vehicle.
Walking is not an option.
I limit my trips. That’s what I call “emission control”.
There are a lot less trips going on it Humboldt County, lately. A lot less.
Do I need to “whisper” it?
Where is this guy even coming from?
It sure ain’t Humboldt County, that’s for sure!
He needs to put on his Gucci’s, get back into his Prius, take his Agenda 21, and head back to whatever burro he came from, pronto.
Just as I suspected…
He’s a Flatlander alright…
No wonder he has an L.A. mentality…
It’s because he actually IS from Los Angeles…
Go figure…
(Do I call ’em like I see ’em, or what…???)
https://www.wildcalifornia.org/post/welcome-matt-simmons-epic-s-newest-legal-fellow
“My name is Matt Simmons and I’m EPIC’s newest legal fellow. I may have grown up in Los Angeles, but I like the North Coast a whole lot more.”
Cont…
You are punching down in Humboldt, Matt Simmons, bravely go back to L.A. and courageously deal with the environment there.
That’s where the real problem is, not here…
That is where you can bitch about that society’s lack of emission reduction to your heart’s content, and potentially do the most good…
That’s where walkable communities make sense, Matt Simmons, not here in Humboldt.
Have you ventured far from Arcata, in Humboldt, Matt Simmons, because it sure doesn’t seem like it.
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“I became passionate about protecting the environment thanks to my elementary school science teacher Mr. Flint who taught me about climate change and the devastating effect that our current society is having on ecosystems across the globe.
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Matt Simmons,
Mr. Flint was not talking about the devastating effect that the society of Humboldt was having on ecosystems around the globe, anywhere near as much as he must have been referring to the devastating effect that the society of L.A., and the like, are having on ecosystems across the globe.
You can do the most good there, in L.A. where you are from, and more familiar with that previous society of yours, not here, in Humboldt, where you are clearly not familiar with it’s society and our needs.
Your true potential will be wasted and misdirected here, especially if you think that walkable communities are the answer to Humboldt’s woes.
That is woefully inadequate thinking.
You need a latitude adjustment…
Go home to L.A., and interfere there, or at least wait until you have lived in Humboldt for 50 years, after leaving L.A., PLEASE, before you think you understand Humboldt well enough to start interfering with the balance here.
You clearly don’t, as of yet.
Mr. Real Guest
I have a friend that once told a person the he would believe that he was a real environmentalist when he saw him riding a hand-carved wooden bicycle to work. I think that the operative point being “work”.
Some of our local environmentalists are financed, either above board though donation sites or under the table from wealthy people that think that they are saving the world. Follow the money. Hint: There is absolutely no money in saying “everything is okay”.
I, one-hundred percent believe in science. It’s the “scientists” that I’m suspicious of.
I am all into reducing pollution. The U.S, and especially Humboldt County should be proud of themselves in that respect.
As a side note, I have a diesel pickup truck that I use 20% biofuel in. I need the truck to carry the tools to repair the buildings on the old family ranch in Laytonville. Better than tearing them down. I don’t think today’s world would allow any practical replacement. On two different occasions i was unable to get 20% biofuel, and I filed with real diesel. My mileage went from 18 miles per gallon to 22 miles per gallon. I’m still running it around in my head… what part of the world am I saving by burning 20% biofuel and losing 20% in fuel mileage?
“Environmentalism” is simply the latest itteration of radical leftist politics.
It only makes sense if you look at it from the perspective of anti-capitalism, anti-private property, anti-civil rights, wealth redistribution to empower and enriching the ruling class…
Environmentalism developed in the 1960’s and 70’s in response to unabated pollution of air, water, and soil. It makes perfect sense if you understand that we were killing ourselves as well as all of the other critters on the planet with our negligence and greed. And it was widely recognized by the right, the center, and the left side of the political spectrum. Richard Nixon, that paragon of leftist thought, signed many of the landmark pieces of environmental legislation we still use today.
Rachel Carson wrote “Silent Spring” and opened a lot of eyes. When DDT was invented door-to-door salesmen were selling it. My grandmother bought a can of DDT dust and she also bought a hand pump poofer, then blew it into the chicken house. It was like a miracle when the red chicken louse all died. Sometime later she was surprised when all the chickens started laying soft shelled eggs. She fed them egg shells, crushed oyster, and other calcium supplements. She only figured out what happened after Rachel Carson’s book.
Again, I am not saying there have never been any environmental problems. What I am saying is that marxists have given up and saying they need total control of everything for the good of workers to saying they need total control of everything for the good of the environment. Leftist destroy everything, including environmentalism…
Bud, you are absolutely right that politics pervades everything. The thing that bothers me the most is that the folks that accept scientific theory as fact. I know that it is trite and tiresome to mention, but in he 70’s were were told by “scientists” that we were entering an ice age. Then in the 90’s “scientists” told us that we were entering global warming. Now scientists call it climate change. I remember when it was just called “weather”.
Whose politics invade everything?! I’m a lefty but I can see we’re getting nowhere, and doing stupid shit on climate change!
Look at trucking. It’s simply that only 1% of voters might be involved in trucking, and we don’t even vote on the specifics of how an agency like CARB will achieve voter “direction”.
Commercial working trucks are regulated virtually out of existence, but a big Suburban rolling living room is not.
There are claims that modern trucks actually CLEAN UP THE AIR in urban environments. Exhaust is filtered and chemically catalyzed. Intake air captures and filters the main particulate pollution now which is TIRE DUST.
Everything everyone has came on a truck, so we are all involved with trucking. Leftists try and divide everyone by race, sex, wealth etc…
Make sure your checking full tank to full tank! I haven’t noticed a difference in mileage using bio diesel.
Biodiesel was grown only a year or two ago, sucking up CO2 as soy beans or canola oil. That’s a tighter loop than fossil fuels. As far as I know there are no credits for using bio, a fuel that cleans up emissions too in any diesel.
Diesel emissions regulators mix up particulates, and greenhouse gasses in dumbing down the discussion. Europe adopted diesel technology to reduce overall liquid fuel consumption, reducing carbon output. That’s at the expense of particulates, but the heavier particulates that affect your lungs are carbon chunks, not carbon dioxide. Modern diesel engines that limit particulates burn more fuel for various reasons. There are more emissions from burning two gallons of fuel than burning one.
CARB issued a ridiculous press release claiming one hour of leaf blower use caused the equivalent “pollution” to a Honda Civic driving from LA to Vegas. Ok if all you count is 2-stroke oil! Obviously the car emits no 2 stroke mix, but it does burn like 25 gallons of gas to one gallon! CARB can’t take the opportunity to point out the real problem: a solo drive from LA to Vegas!
Ok one more goofy ass example of the completely lame faddish references to climate change that absolutely undermines addressing the very real problem: listening to NPR (for comedy) there was a precious segment on “pumpkin spice flavor” non-news. The lady asked why Pumpkin Spice Latte flavor was in everything ( because of unimaginative seasonal marketing), she goes
” oh because of GLOBAL WARMING we don’t see the season changes anymore and we miss that…”
Hold my CO2 bubbling beer! WTF!?
All you fuckers moved to LA, Vegas, Florida, Arizona..THATS WHY YOU HAVE NO SEASONS!
all driving, all A/C!…LMFAO.
For Humboldt…if we quit pumping cabbage farts out 20 years ago, we quit. It counts as a reduction in emissions. I believe in anthropogenic climate change, but simply saying “Walkable City” doesn’t cut it.
Get a milk goat.
That’s “kid” stuff…
(You missed the point, unsurprisingly.)
I don’t even drink milk.
Take your own advice.
Bon appetit.
Even if he leaves and takes his Agenda 21 mindset with him, Supervisor Mike Wilson will likely continue working with his Agenda 21 mindset here. Did you know that Humboldt has been a member of ICLEI since 2007? The Agenda 21/ICLEI climate goals have been slowly woven into the general plan since then. Mike Wilson is the County’s designated ICLEI representative. The rabbit hole goes deep…
https://icleiusa.org/iclei-leadership-letter-to-biden-harris-first-100-days/
But he’s all for ruining the bays environment in favor of industry.
So who is twisting your arm to live there? You claim the author is “sorely out of touch”, however it would seem you are literally “out of touch… even in a 4 wheel drive vehicle”
I’m out of touch, Ed…???
How about you?
You don’t even live in Humboldt.
How out of touch with living in Humboldt is that, compared to me.
Nobody is twisting my arm to live here, Ed.
Who twisted your arm to leave Humboldt, Ed?
I suppose that you walk everywhere Ed, is that right???
Even as flat as it is where you live, now…
(Which ain’t Humboldt.)
Let us folks alone, that actually live in Humboldt, to argue about how best to live in Humboldt.
With all due respect, Ed, you’re sticking you’re nose, (again), where it doesn’t reside.
You worry about your, emissions, and let me worry about mine.
Maybe you should be chatting up Matt Simmons, and not me…???
You seem to have missed the point, Ed, but go ahead and argue if it makes you feel better.
My roots are deep in Humboldt County, in Southern Humboldt, in fact.
Nearly 50 years, now… And I put down lots of real, long term roots, and, unlike you, I have no intention of leaving for any reason.
This is my home.
As far as how ridiculously it is for Matt Simmons, and his “L.A. environmental mindset”, (an oxymoron if there ever was one), to suggest walkable communities are a feasible solution to Humboldt woes, let me give you an example…
Where I live, that’s where the rubber hits the road, and I’m not talking shoe rubber hitting the road.
And that’s not going to change any time soon.
People like Matt Simmons, that aren’t hip to such realities, and don’t have any common sense, have no business meddling in affairs that they so clearly have no real understanding of.
It’s an imbalance of epic proportions.
Oil and water don’t mix, Ed.
Think about that.
“Climate targets are based off of 1990 emissions estimates.”
This is the baseline the State identified. Why should Humboldt be held to a higher standard?
Humboldt has met or almost met the baseline GHG emission reduction, regardless of how it happened. I’m told, the County’s consultant, RINCON, believes the only way to have a “Qualified” Climate Action Plan (CAP) is to use the State approved baseline data.
A qualified Climate Action Plan (CAP) is one that meets State requirements so that future development projects requiring environmental review under State law can streamline greenhouse gas (GHG) impact analyses by demonstrating consistency with the CAP.
A “Qualified” CAP will streamline the environmental review of much needed housing in Humboldt, including compact, high density housing near services and public transit.
The writer refers to the $4.6 billion in federal Climate Pollution Reduction Grants available to communities that have adopted a plan by March of next year. They failed to mention that “Qualified” CAP’s rank higher for the available funds
It is in everybody’s interest to have a “Qualified” CAP.
PS. I trust that Mr. Simmon’s and the others who have opined has an electric car or no car at all, an all electric energy independent house, uses only LED bulbs, does not fly, grows all his own food, eats only plant based food, buys his clothes at thrift shops, etc.
I wish I could still use my 1992 5.9 l 12v Cummins in a commercial truck! Gets way better mileage than today’s equivalent.
Hmmm… wasn’t EPIC in the lead opposing the Windmill Project ?
Go figure. SF and LA Rip-Off’s go home.
Matt Simmons, miles of rare constructed coastal wetlands have been destroyed on the Samoa Peninsula. These were carbon sinks, wildlife habitat, and migratory bird feed lots until some simpleton bio-fascists decided that they were going to remove “weeds.”
With the promise of “no adverse impacts.”
We went from wetlands to deserts for “biodiversity.” It’s called fraud.
That EPIC has failed to recognize the catastrophe in their own backyard has me reassessing your value and that of your organization.
American Beach grass is great for building dunes and removing American beach grass destroys dunes.
Yes, American Beach Grass (East Coast, Atlantic) does better than our West Coast native Leymus, for dune building but doesn’t come near to Amophylla (European Beach Grass) for height, depth or wetland function, in creating Primary Dunes.
In Manila on the Celestre Property, our constructed Primary Dune is 30′ high with an accompanying deflation Plane wetland. Thanks to Amophylla we provide habitat and water for our wildlife as if the Coastal Act mattered.
Whereas on the Rudd Property where the “Friends” did their thing wildlife has disappeared and wetlands no longer function.
Bard:
“American beach grass (Amophila breviligulata) and European beach grass (Ammophila arenaria) are both perennial grasses that are native to coastal areas. They are both commonly used in dune restoration projects because of their ability to trap sand and build dunes. However, there are some key differences between the two grasses.
Effectiveness
Both American beach grass and European beach grass are effective at trapping sand and building dunes. However, American beach grass is generally considered to be more effective. This is because American beach grass has a denser root system and taller shoots than European beach grass. The denser root system helps to hold sand in place, while the taller shoots help to trap more sand.
Building dunes
American beach grass is also more effective at building dunes than European beach grass. This is because American beach grass has a tendency to grow in clumps, which helps to create mounds of sand. European beach grass, on the other hand, tends to grow in a more scattered pattern.
Other considerations
In addition to effectiveness and dune building ability, there are a few other factors to consider when choosing between American beach grass and European beach grass.
Native status: American beach grass is native to North America, while European beach grass is native to Europe. In some cases, it may be preferable to use native species in dune restoration projects.
Salt tolerance: Both American beach grass and European beach grass are tolerant of salt, but American beach grass is more so. This makes it a better choice for planting in areas with high salinity levels.
Growth rate: American beach grass has a faster growth rate than European beach grass. This can be an advantage in areas where quick dune stabilization is needed.
Overall
Overall, American beach grass is generally considered to be a more effective and versatile choice for dune restoration projects than European beach grass. However, there are some cases where European beach grass may be a better choice, such as in areas with low salinity levels or where slower dune growth is desired.”
I cannot bring myself to read this type of doomsday death cult nonsense, because there is no climate crisis.
The rate of warming, sea level, rise, glacial retreat etc etc etc has not changed since the 1870’s…
As far as Humboldt County not reducing it’s emissions in the last several years, that is complete bullshit, just as I suspected…
Where is Matt Simmons getting his bogus information, anyways…???
He provides zero facts, and zero links.
Just because Matt Simmons quite questionably claims something is true, without evidence, that surely does not mean what he alleges is, in fact, actually true.
It’s just a bunch ofpolitical bullshit, honestly.
Here is a link, and some facts to go with it…
Gas use by county, residential and non residential…
http://www.ecdms.energy.ca.gov/gasbycounty.aspx
Usage is down for 2022, as a matter of fact, just as I said was likely…
That would mean that the corresponding emissions, were also down…
Compare 2016 to the subsequent years…
Looks like, approximately, about an 85% reduction, overall, in all the next years…
218 million therms, down to about 30-32 Millon therms…
Thank you, Humboldt County!
Excellent job reducing your emissions!
What say ye about that, Matt Simmons…???
It runs counter to your dubious claims…
I am not saying that society can’t make some environmental improvements, but there is no climate crisis.
Global warming is a hoax that is being exploited by the ruling class to make money and control people…
You keep saying that but have never provided any evidence to support your claim. Maybe that’s because all evidence shows that we are in the midst of human-driven climate change and a human-caused mass estinction event.
No, I have shown evidence. The best (as in most accurate) temperature data is from satellites. What they show is that from the late 1970’s until now, the rate of warming has not increased. In fact, since 2015 it has actually decreased.
So despite all the doomsday rhetoric, and a sizeable increase in CO2, there is no crisis. Nothing out of the ordinary is happening. The runaway warming is based on climate models that have been dead wrong for many decades. And every year the “experts” are more sure than ever that we are the verge of disaster. At some point even the most ardent believers are going to have to give up and find a new problem to worry about…
Global warming alarmists who claim that human emitted co2 will cause catastrophic global warming have not come close to proving their case. All they have are models that have grossly incorrect results.
The idea that we would destroy our economy and impoverish Americans based on such flimsy evidence is absurd and obscene.
We do know from satellite picture analysis that increased co2 has made earth significantly greener since 1980.
We also know poverty worldwide has declined enormously because of fossil fuels.
There are over 4 billion people in China, India, and Africa alone. They are going to be using ever growing vast amounts of fossil fuels to make the lives of their people better. There is nothing that silly, innumerate, climate science ignorant lefties in the west can do about that.
The thing that I like about blogsites is that you can make statements that don’t fit the narrative and the government doesn’t censure you and take your funding away.
Mainstream media has to pick a side and stick to it or they lose their advertisers.
Scientific research is much the same. How can any science come out of fear of losing your funding for publishing something that might offend the funding source. Then, what scientist would dare peer review and agree with you.
We live in a society that is even actively destroying history, statues, and place names. We seem to have lost or collecive minds.
He was talking about global warming (or the lack thereof).
What does that have to do with:
“coast Pacific Flyway to the Migratory Bird Treaty. We are bound by an international treaty, the Coastal Act, NEPA, CEQA, and common sense to manage aquatic function”?
I’m confused, probably from my lack of higher education. Is Matthew Simmons quoting himself or when it appears to be from Matthew Simmons at the bottom, do the brackets mean he’s not the actual letter writer???
They are his marching orders, he is just repeating them…
Texas Bud has finally found a blog to that tolerates his conspiracy theories.
I think it means that it was on his letterhead, but he didn’t actually sign his name to it.
If so, that would make it very disingenuous.
This quote sure makes it seem like one or more of the supposed environmentalists at EPIC, are in bed with the developers, or whoever stands to gain the most by getting a slice of the $4.6 billion “federal Climate Pollution Reduction Grants” pie that they can’t resist mentioning…
“And if the county doesn’t get its act together and adopt a serious Climate Action Plan soon, it will also be leaving money on the table – like the $4.6 billion in federal Climate Pollution Reduction Grants available to communities that have adopted a plan by March of next year.”
Something is smelling very fishy at EPIC.
Read about the “competition” here…
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-unveils-46-billion-grants-cut-climate-pollution-part
Humboldt county doesn’t stand a chance.
Where is pollution a problem in Humboldt to the point that it’s reduction could ever compete in with a reduction in pollution in other parts of the Country?
Whoever wrote this didn’t do their homework.
Correction…
“Where is pollution a problem in Humboldt to the point that it’s reduction could ever compete in with a reduction in pollution in other parts of the Pacific Southwest region?”
Biden-Harris Administration Unveils $4.6 Billion in Grants to Cut Climate Pollution as Part of Investing in America Agenda’
“Funds benefit states, tribes, and territories in Pacific Southwest region”
September 20, 2023
‘The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Competition’
“EPA is announcing the availability of $4.6 billion across two implementation grant competitions, one general competition and one specifically for Tribes and territories. Under these competitions, eligible applicants will compete for CPRG implementation grants to fund measures in their state-, municipality-, Tribe-, or territory-specific climate action plans. As part of its evaluation of applications, EPA will prioritize measures that achieve the greatest amount of GHG emissions reductions.
In the grants competitions announced today, EPA describes how the agency intends to score applications and award the competitive funds to implementation grant recipients. EPA anticipates awarding approximately 30 to 115 grants ranging between $2 million and $500 million under the general competition. EPA also anticipates awarding approximately 25 to 100 grants ranging between $1 million and $25 million under the Tribes and territories competition.”…
Isn’t the “fuzzy math” refusing to count cuts in emissions as cuts in emissions?
It’s not about any actual action, it’s about leverage to control behavior. The carbon cult isn’t a reality based enterprise it’s a faith based totalitarian ideology.
These are the same guys that scream housing, housing, housing! Climate change refugees! Work from home! Arcata needs to double its population now! 8 stories or higher the better! My math tells me that will mean a considerable amount of new energy needed to build and sustain that population growth. I don’t think were dealing with an honest environmental group here. Just a bunch of grant whores.
If anybody is interested in Reading the full text of the made up “conspiracy’s theory” I mean, it’s not like it’s an internationally recognized treaty or anything…
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf
Exactly. This new generation of local media stars have learned from the playbook. If they say something damaging to your argument that is true call them conspiracy theorist. If they prove their point with data call them racist. When it is obvious they aren’t racist and they make you look racist for bringing it up in the first place call it Malinformation and report them to the moderator to have them deplatformed or demonetized.
Matthew Simmons needs to go back to L.A.
Humboldt may have the cleanest air in the State.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2023/apr/20/humboldt-county-may-have-cleanest-air-state-report/
It doesn’t need a climate action plan.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
It might not have the cleanest air if Matt gets his way… He’s on the Arcata planning commission (sadly) and is pushing hard to promote rezoning much of Arcata to allow 7-8 story buildings. He’s all for building dense infill and facilitating rapid population growth of this rural community.
Emphasis on the “dense”…
Sadly, this is the newest trend for the Democrats lurking around California. Climate resilience plans, bwahahahaha. They would never live in them though.That’s for the old, poor, and border jumpers. Put up huge apartments everywhere with a federal grant in return for the moola for pet projects like bike paths, traffic control barriers, and other liberal Christmas wish lists which make everyone who works for a living and lives here worse off but them.
The letter writer is simply hoping to make our area like the tar pit he crawled out of because of Natural Selection, while thinking he can make his SoCal garbage natural habitat better here. This has been a regular occurrence in Northern California for a century with these So Cal migratory ticks. Talk about Patty Hearst syndrome. Got Tonga, Matt? Nature happens, climate changes all the time, and the Earth keeps spinning. Get back to me when you figure out your existence on Earth is meaningless except to you and your family. Now Jonas Salk, Washington, Lincoln, and Tesla will always be remembered.
Enought with the climate communism Mathew. Walk back to LA. Your type have done enought damage to our economy and government regulation. You people are TAX thieves.
The chicken littles from somewhere else and their opinions. We used to have 2 pulp mills and hundreds of sawmills that polluted. Thats long gone. If we’d stop catering to the druggie and transient element, that’s all we would need to do, except get these silly Fedaral and California rules and their bureaucrats out of our rural northern areas. Net zero is a fantasy. Especially in this disaster of a state.