Need for a different kind of climate change

Dwarfing his costly Obamacare failure, President Obama spearheaded his legacy-seeking U.N. conference on climate change in Paris, resulting in a worldwide agreement to avert the worst effects of global warming by shifting economies to cleaner energy sources.

Sadly, the economy-busting climate change deception simply adds to the dangerously corrosive, decades-long social, political and economic climate change in America caused by liberal government, the miseducation establishment and media.

Alas, what America really needs is a reverse climate change -- of good and against evil -- with the strength of determined leadership and limited government. It’s a matter of our survival.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

(Original letter)

Deadly climate change deception

Dwarfing his costly Obamacare failure, President Obama spearheaded his legacy-seeking UN conference in Paris on Climate Change resulting in a worldwide agreement to avert the worst effects of global warming by shifting economies to cleaner energy sources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

However, beginning with Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth global warming deception backed by climate alarmist scientists, the campaign against greenhouse gases went into overdrive, exacerbated by reckless legislative actions highlighted in California by conference attendee, former Gov. Schwarzenegger’s punishing AB 32 carbon taxes.

Indeed, Ca. Gov. Brown gave a speech at the Paris conference, followed by a scene outside the center, singing along with Barry McGuire’s 1965 song, “We’re on the eve of destruction” as his legacy-seeking anthem to take drastic actions justifying his radical political moves by slashing oil consumption and sounding false alarms against drought, disasters and terrorism. And, of course, L.A. Mayor Garcetti attended the conference and jumped on the environmentalist bandwagon.

Sadly, the delirious economy-busting climate change deception simply adds to the dangerously corrosive decades-long social, political and economic climate change in America caused by liberal government, the miseducation establishment and media bent on social, political and economic suicide.

Clearly evidenced by tyrannical laws and taxes, indoctrination of students robbing them of a real education --the Clinton-government-caused 2008 housing and financial meltdown -- President Obama’s feckless foreign policy and border enforcement resulting the proliferation of terrorism, illegal alien criminals, gangs and drugs -- and the collapse of our national and domestic security.

Alas, what America really needs is a reverse climate change to good against evil with the strength of determined leadership and limited government. It’s a matter of our survival….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
November 13, 2015

Plea for aid fails to address root problems

Governor Brown’s feckless last minute plea for the U.S. Forest Service to fund removal of dead trees from our national forest lands is little more than a better-late-than-never attempt to diminish the rapid spread of forest fires in California and the West, but fails to address the root problems.

Indeed, environmentalist-caused failure to control massive tree deaths from bark beetles, coupled with the Forest Service’s failure to thin forests, remove dead trees, control prescribed burns, and failure to aggressively attack forest fires are the causes of major runaway forest fires, not the prolonged drought.

Surely, cost of lost forest lands, lives and property from tree-hugging environmentalists and incompetent government -- exacerbated by drought and the coming El-Nino rains -- will drive the grim point home to beleaguered wildlands, firefighters, victims and taxpayers.

Sadly, for decades, it has been an easily avoided shame on us….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
July 24, 2015

Governor’s sky is falling

In a blind pursuit of his “sky is falling” legacy, Governor Brown has assumed the role of the leader of environmental zealot movement by increasing the negative economic impact of AB-32’s carbon tax. However, that wasn’t enough. The governor is now riding the moonbeam of SB-350 legislation that will impose even more abuse of power by requiring half of the state’s electricity be generated from costly, unreliable renewable resources by 2030.

Indeed, with Governor Brown’s climate change goals, it doesn’t matter that there will be an enormous impact on the economy and cost of living. No, there’s more to SB-350, which requires a 50 percent cut in the consumption of gasoline, to be administered by the governor’s appointed, California Air Resources Board. Worse, there is nothing in SB-350 to prevent gasoline rationing.

Alas, it’s bad enough that California already has the highest gasoline prices and gas tax in the by 1 dollar per gallon over the national average. And that California will not allow the construction of new oil refineries, or adding new oil and natural gas resources. Or that California’s Green additive blend of gasoline is not only costly, but damaging to vehicle engines. Now, Mr. Brown’s hit team wants to stick oil companies with an oil extraction tax.

Clearly, the sky’s the limit for Californian’s cost of living.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
July 24, 2015

Gov. Brown’s ambitious climate change goals

Re: “Climate change battle to get harder” (July 19)

In a blind pursuit of his “sky is falling” legacy, Governor Brown has assumed the role of the leader of environmental zealot movement by increasing the negative economic impact of Assembly Bill 2’s carbon tax.

However, that wasn’t enough. The governor is now riding the moonbeam of Senate Bill 350 legislation that will impose even more abuse of power by requiring half of the state’s electricity be generated from costly, unreliable renewable resources by 2030.

Indeed, with Gov. Brown’s climate change goals, it doesn’t matter that there will be an enormous impact on the economy and cost of living. No, there’s more to SB 350, which requires a 50 percent cut in the consumption of gasoline, to be administered by the governor’s appointed, California Air Resources Board. Worse, there is nothing in SB-350 to prevent gasoline rationing.

It’s bad enough that California already has the highest gasoline prices and gas tax in the by 1 dollar per gallon over the national average. And that California will not allow the construction of new oil refineries, or adding new oil and natural gas resources. Or that California’s green additive blend of gasoline is not only costly, but damaging to vehicle engines. Now, Mr. Brown’s hit team wants to stick oil companies with an oil extraction tax.

Clearly, the sky’s the limit for Californian’s cost of living.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
May 22, 2015

Extremism exacerbates state’s drought

California’s extended drought is meaningless to extreme environmentalist-driven government regulations, which has cost a single sea water desalination plant in Carlsbad near San Diego a 10-year delay in completing the plant because of 6-years of frivolous environmental lawsuits. Indeed, insidious lawsuits and onerous government regulations have prevented the plant from producing 54 million gallons of water per day.

Poseidon Water’s Carlsbad desalination plant is the largest in North America and is slated to go online this Fall. Obviously, California government and environmental terrorists have been recklessly irresponsible by further exacerbating California’s extended drought by allowing millions of acre feet of water to flow into the ocean to protect a tiny fish, ignoring other water resources, our extended coastline and the worldwide use of desalination.

Clearly, there must be a reversal of decades of environmentalist voter-assisted economic suicide. It’s time to turn back to the prosperity of California’s gold instead of blindly pursuing a fool’s paradise – a terminal liberal affliction.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
May 20, 2015

Regulation roadblock

California’s extended drought is meaningless to extreme environmentalist-driven government regulations, which has cost a single sea water desalination plant in Carlsbad near San Diego a 10-year delay in completing the plant because of 6-years of frivolous environmental lawsuits. Indeed, insidious lawsuits and onerous government regulations have prevented the plant from producing 54 million gallons of water per day.

Poseidon Water’s Carlsbad desalination plant is the largest in North America and is slated to go online this Fall. Obviously, California government and environmental terrorists have been recklessly irresponsible by further exacerbating California’s extended drought by allowing millions of acre feet of water to flow into the ocean to protect a tiny fish, ignoring other water resources, our extended coastline and the worldwide use of desalination.

Surely, Californians should take notice of Israel’s success in resolving their water shortages in 5 years by providing half their water supply with desalination plants producing 100 billion gallons of water per year. Clearly, there must be a reversal of decades of environmentalist voter-assisted economic suicide. It’s time to turn back to the prosperity of California’s gold instead of blindly pursuing a fool’s paradise – a terminal liberal affliction.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
May 14, 2015

Time for California to cash in on Columbia River water

With 86 billion gallons of Columbia River water per day flowing into the ocean, there is certainly a need to divert much of that water to drought-stricken California to meet the needs of Northern Californians, Central Valley farmlands and the people of Southern California.

Clearly, there must be combined cooperation between the Federal Bureau of Water Reclamation serving the Central Valley Water Project, the California State Water Resources Control Board, and the California State Water Project to accomplish what is needed.

Surely, between the Columbia River, Klamath River, Lake Shasta and the Sacramento Delta, a series of pipelines and reservoirs can be constructed to bring, store and deliver all the necessary water to resolve our long term problems.

First, however, Governor Brown and unreasonable environmental extremists must get their act together for the good of the people. Governor Brown should quit over-feeding such things as the miseducation money pit, scrap his $68 billion bullet train, add the $7.3 billion water project funds and begin the real California water project in earnest.

Indeed, California voters should demand it for our survival.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Los Angeles Times
Opinion LA
April 28, 2015

Columbia River pipeline

With 86 billion gallons of Columbia River water per day flowing into the ocean, there is certainly a need to divert much of that water to drought-stricken California to meet the needs of Northern Californians, Central Valley farmlands and the people of Southern California.

Clearly, there must be combined cooperation between the Federal Bureau of Water Reclamation serving the Central Valley Water Project, the California State Water Resources Control Board, and the California State Water Project to accomplish what is needed.

Surely, between the Columbia River, Klamath River, Lake Shasta and the Sacramento Delta, a series of pipelines and reservoirs can be constructed to bring, store and deliver all the necessary water to resolve our long term problems.

First, however, Governor Brown and unreasonable environmental extremists must get their act together for the good of the people. Governor Brown should quit over-feeding such things as the miseducation money pit, scrap his $68 billion bullet train, add the $7.3 billion water project funds and begin the real California water project in earnest.

Indeed, California voters should demand it for our survival.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
March 25, 2015

Incompetent water managers

Gov. Jerry Brown and the legislature cannot be trusted to ameliorate the water crisis with a billion dollar Band-Aid, or tapping into more of the $7.3 billion water bond approved by the voters in November, unless the funds are used to improve the water system for real.

Unfortunately, too many elected officials (and activist judges) live in a political fantasyland, rather than in the real world.

Instead, what is now needed is to either cancel Brown’s $68 billion bullet train boondoggle and land-grab, or use the bond funds to address the drought and our water delivery in a meaningful, lasting manner. Clearly, if Central and Southern California dry up, it would be a train to nowhere.

In terms of the State Water Project delivering contracted water supplies to Central California farmers and Southern California consumers (paid for and maintained by property owners): We are to receive only 20 percent of our water allotment this year, up from our next-to-nothing 5 percent of our water allotment last year.

Indeed, much of that problem would be resolved by eliminating the extreme environmentalist federal court decision cutting 30 percent of our water from the Sacramento Delta to protect the tiny Delta Smelt at the expense of human health and welfare, and allowing millions of acre-feet of our fresh water to flow wastefully to the ocean.

This is unconstitutional interference with private contracts for the sake of suicidal environmental insanity at the expense of crops, the California economy, and human life. Alas, the federal judge and Brown might get the point if they were dropped out here in the middle of the Mojave Desert with half-full canteens of water.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
March 17, 2015

Gov. Brown’s toy bullet train land fraud

Blinded by his pursuit of a high speed rail legacy, Governor Brown made an easy sell to naïve indoctrinated voters to take on escalating $billions in taxpayer bond debt for nothing more than buying Mr. Brown his toy bullet train from Northern to Southern California regardless of the enormous consequences.

Indeed, in the face of understandable resistance from Central Valley farmers who stand to lose and be cut-off from much needed farm lands, Brown’s land grabbers are going full speed ahead with eminent domain fraud, not to mention the disruptive acquisitions to complete the needless train route.

Clearly, the California betrayal is deeply rooted with confiscatory taxation and regulations thrust upon businesses and the people by socialist government and environmentalistas responsible for cutting water to the California Water Project built and maintained by Central Valley farmers and Southern California property owners, exacerbated by the drought.

Coupled with making California an open-border sanctuary state, and opening prison gates to allow alien criminals to prey upon our citizens, Governor Brown, his elected administration and Democrats in the legislature should be recalled and given their permanent walking papers to run anywhere but California.

Enough is enough and beyond unconscionable.

Attention: Senators Boxer and Feinstein, California congressional democrats, and California AG Kamala Harris. You have also betrayed California.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
October 12, 2014

Whose monument?

President Obama's executive order to make the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument is not for the people, as it will restrict access and make firefighting even more difficult.

Indeed, under the guise of being a conservationist, President Obama has been taking lands all over America to keep those lands from being developed for our energy resources of oil, gas, coal, all types of mining -- and any kind of commercial development.

Likewise, President Obama refuses to approve the Keystone oil pipeline from Canada. Worse, in addition to denying America more jobs, Mr. Obama's intention is to eliminate coal, oil and gas in favor of more expensive and unreliable renewable energy.

That's simply the tyranny of using his ideology of big government and the abuse of power against Capitalism free markets and the economy -- plus the abdication of his duty to our national security -- contrary to the best interests and safety of the people. Alas, 2016 can't come too soon.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
October 9, 2014

With plastic bag ban, the state chases fool's gold

Re: "California becomes first state to ban single-use plastic bags" (Sept. 30).

Governor Brown and the Democrat Legislature have done it again. California is now the first in the nation to have a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags, which is another capitulation to extreme environmentalists and an insane inconvenience to grocery shoppers.

Indeed, it will cost businesses and many jobs, which simply adds to the cost of living fraud of AB 32 carbon cap and tax, fuel and oil tax increases, and Brown's costly Proposition 30 tax, and high speed rail deceit. Alas, Democrats' liberal ilk have turned California's gold into fool's gold.

Clearly, with all the businesses and jobs fleeing the state, the only growth going on in California is government, of which we must have freedom from too much destructive ideology, incompetence, taxes, rules, regulations, waste, fraud, lies, deceit and abuse of power. It's simply become an unconstitutional, unconscionable disgrace and must be turned around to constitutional limited government -- no more than we absolutely need. Surely, voters must make the changes we need to survive, thrive and prosper.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

New York Times
January 8, 2013

Al Gore: American media traitor and global warming huckster

Former vice president Al Gore's treasonous sale of his far-left American cable television network to oil-rich-Qatar's terrorist-media-purveyor, Al Jazeera for $500 million adds to the clear and convincing evidence that he is not only a casual and arrogant traitor, but an opportunistic, self-enriching, global warming liar, an unconscionable huckster, and a Michael Moore-style anti-American fraud.

Alas, what else can we expect from Gore's experience with his former president Bill Clinton's inconvenient truth of bringing down the housing market, finance and the economy with the false-promises of affordable housing for unqualified buyers, at taxpayers' expense? Indeed, Wall Street and the banks are not to blame. The federal government is.

The Sacramento Bee
October 9, 2012

Envronmentalists' over-reaching cause gasoline price spikes

Re: "Refineries get OK on cheaper gas" (Page A1, Oct. 9):

California has the highest gas tax and emission regulations in the nation. California has the most stringent, costly special Summer formulation for gasoline in the nation. The Chevron refinery in Richmond, which was shut down because of an explosion, supplies a substantial amount of the special Summer formulation to the West Coast.

There are too few refineries in California, and no new refineries have been allowed. California environmentalists have restricted any new oil and gas exploration or production, and the state has the highest taxes and royalties on oil and gas production in the nation. Coupled with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations, that is why California's gas prices are the highest in the nation.

Governor Brown's order allowing early transition to Winter-blend gasoline to ease prices is an empty gesture ignoring the root problem, which is over-reaching government and green energy obsession.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Letter (below) also published in the San Diego Union-Tribune
October 8, 2012

The Washington Times
October 8, 2012

Crushing California

California has the highest gas tax and emission regulations in the nation ("Gasoline prices skyrocket in California," Sunday). It also has the most stringent, costly special Summer formulation for gasoline in the nation. The Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif., which was shut down after an explosion in early August,, supplies a substantial amount of the summer formulation to the West Coast.

There are too few refineries in California and no new refineries have been allowed. California environmentalists have restricted any new oil and gas exploration or production, and the state has the highest taxes and royalties on oil and gas production in the nation. Coupled with Environmental Protection Agency regulations, that is why California's gas prices are the highest in the nation.

If it were not for economy-crushing environmentalists, government employee and teacher unions, and the malfeasance in Sacramento, there might be hope for California's future.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

USA TODAY

July 10, 2012

Climate legislation costly for California, America

A state court’s decree supporting the “settled science” of global warming licensed the Environmental Protection Agency to raid the American economy, energy producers and business with costly regulations by upholding California’s climate change regulations (“Court upholds EPA’s global warming rules,” USATODAY.com, June 26).

As a California resident since 1945, I have witnessed the financial rise of the “Golden State” as well as its decline under the weight of progressive, Big Government liberal ideology and environmentalism. When voters failed to block the rules in 2010, it was tantamount to voter-assisted economic suicide. Indeed, if voters re-elect President Obama, the EPA will ensure the economic suicide of our nation.

Sadly, there is little to no hope for saving California from its liberal overdosing. But the country can be saved by voters dumping President Obama and the Democrats’ control of the Senate in November.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

(Original letter)

The federal court's decree supporting the "settled science" of global warming licensed the EPA to raid the American economy, energy producers and business with costly regulations, and supports California's AB 32 climate change laws.

California's crashing will certainly be accelerated by the implementation of AB 32 Climate change regulations cap-and-tax laws that will cause a loss of $447 billion in California economic output, and increased costs per family of $2,500 per year -- a lose, lose situation.

As a Southern California resident since 1945 -- retired from working 41 years in law enforcement and the criminal justice system -- I have witnessed the rise of the Golden State and decline of California under the progressive weight of big government liberal ideology and extreme environmentalism.

It is often said that as California goes, so goes the nation. Indeed, if it were not for the spontaneous passage of the 1978 Proposition 13 tax limitation ballot initiative -- which spread throughout the states -- California's social, political and economic crash would be much further along than it is.

However, when voters failed to overturn AB 32 in 2010 ballot measure, it was tantamount to voter-assisted economic suicide. Indeed, if voters re-elect President Obama, his climate change fighting EPA will ensure the voter-assisted regulatory economic suicide of our nation.

Sadly, there is little to no hope for saving California from its liberal overdosing. But the country can be saved by voters dumping President Obama and Democrats' control of the Senate in the November elections.

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