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Comment 20 for Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation (acf2022) - 45 Day.

First NamePaul
Last NameRaab
Email Addresspraab@vcsar3.org
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SubjectZEV requirement based on wrong premise
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CO2 has about 0.0004% control over our environment's temperature and that is being generous.

Our planet is getting hotter, but CO2 is very LIKLEY NOT causing this climate change.

In fact, the IPCC admits that the surface temperature of the OCEANS is the main culprit of global warming. And that all the GHG gases in the atmosphere have only contributed to just 1% to the global heating problem. CO2 is a fractional percentage of global warming.

If we were to stop burning all fossil fuels and go to "green" energy only, we would NOT stop global warming. Even the IPCC admits that eliminating carbon emissions will not fix the climate problem.

So go get a copy of The IPCC Summary for Policy Makers and you will find these statements that you politicians have missed.

From IPCC SPM Document

A 4.2

    Ocean warming accounted for 91% of the heating in the climate system, with land warming, ice loss and atmospheric warming accounting for about 5%, 3% and 1%, respectively (high confidence)

Yes. It is kind of hidden in there. "Atmospheric (all GHG's) warming accounting for only 1% of our temperature rise"

And here is where they admit that removing man made CO2 will not fix the problem, if you understand that CO2 is a 0.0004% player, CO2 cannot reduce the ocean temperature enough to make any difference.

From IPCC SPM document

D 1.6

    If global net negative CO2 emissions were to be achieved and be sustained, the global CO2-induced surface temperature increase would be gradually reversed but other climate changes would continue in their current direction for decades to millennia (high confidence).  For instance, it would take several centuries to millennia for global mean sea level to reverse course even under large net negative CO2 emissions (high confidence).”

How is it that human-caused CO2 could heat the upper layer of the oceans in 60 years, but it will take centuries for it to cool?  All of mankind’s emissions cannot increase the heat of the upper layer of the oceans, which covers two thirds of the earth.

So, to fix our hot climate, we have to cool the upper surface of the oceans, so you are not addressing the real cause of the climate problem.

The main flaw of these Climate politicians is that they only talk about global average temperature. By itself, average temperature is meaningless. You need to open your eyes, take off the blinders, and look at the bigger picture.

Our global temperatures ranges from -80 F to +120 F which is a 200 F degree swing.

200 F degrees divided by a 2 F degree change equals a 1% shift.

This means instead of being -80F, it only got to -78F in Antarctica.

Instead of Death Valley being +120F, it got to +122F.

There is still a huge swing in min and max temperatures over the seasons

A 1% change does not destroy the world. The artic still freezes over every winter.

Thermal radiative forcing is fiction. This is where they forgot about the inverse square law.

None of the facts support CO2 as being the main actor in the climate change disaster fairy tale.

Declaring that it is "Likely" 113 times in the SPM document is not scientific proof.

CO2 has been wrongly villainized as a climate threat for political gain.

CO2 makes plants happy. Plant more trees to scrub the CO2 from the earth.

So why are we destroying our state and country by forcing everyone to immediately go to a zero-carbon footprint when it will not lower the temperature of our climate one bit.

 

A 50/50 solution would be better at this time. Electric cars and trucks are great for short trips with light loads. Gas cars and trucks are necessary for the long haul and heavy loads, since EV batteries would be too big and heavy to be practical.

We need both gas and electric vehicles, please just let the free market do what it does best. This is the land of the free and you are over stepping a critical boundary without real cause.

 

No law needs to be mandated, rather a strong recommendation would be better.

Please, rescind all of your Zero mandated laws against fossil fuels as they are founded upon a false premise.

 

Do not forget to build 1,000 natural gas power plants a year, and every year, for the next ten plus years to feed all those hungry EV's.

 

Not a scientist, just an Engineer. The math does not add up.

Thank you

Paul Raab


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