COMMENT BY:
Herman A. (Alex) Pope
Pope's Climate Theory
Houston, Texas
on the
EPA Proposed Rule
Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units
Submitted
Dec 1, 2014
Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Due Date: Dec 1, 2014
Recommendation:
The current Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) calculations that the EPA uses for estimated costs and benefits of this proposed rule, as described in footnote (12) of the proposed rule and required by E.O. 12866. The calculations are based on output from un-validated Models. All actions related to the regulation of CO2 should be delayed until the calculations can be accomplished with actual data or validated models.
Comment:
Polar Ice Cycles and Earth Temperature Regulation
On Earth, Water, in all of its states does regulate the temperature.
The temperature that Polar Sea Ice melts and freezes does not change. When the oceans are warm and the Polar Sea Ice is thawed, the snowfall is always turned on until cooling occurs. This now takes a few hundred years. When the oceans are cold and the Polar Sea Ice is frozen, the snowfall is always turned off until warming occurs. This takes a few hundred years.
There was the Roman warm period, a cold period followed, the Medieval warm Period followed, the Little Ice Age followed, this Modern Warm period followed. Next, a cold period will follow. The temperature now goes up and down across this set point. This set point does not change due to changes in the sun or the orbit or tilt of the Earth or CO2.
Look at the temperature history of earth and look at the development of the Polar Ice and the Polar Ice Cycles.
To take us out of the cycles of the past ten thousand years, you must stop the Polar Ice Cycle. The thermostat in your house turns cooling on and keeps it on as long as necessary to lower temperature below the set point. The sun is always on and warms your house until the cooling comes on.
Look at this wonderful temperature record. You can watch the temperature signature change as the ocean circulation and polar ice cycles change.
A scientist on our climate study team sent this chart with five hundred million years of temperature data. The scale changes as you go from millions of years ago to the most recent ten thousand years.
His reference is: Sturgis Hooper, Nov. 4, 2014