Council to focus on climate, budget

The Palo Alto City Council said it would focus on creating sustainable environmental and financial policies in the next 12 months at its annual retreat Saturday.

[Walter E Wallis]

Once again the City sails off on the sea of PC, preaching the fundamentalism of the environmentalist saved.
Whatever the future holds, our best chance to thrive is a growing, ebulliant economy. Luddites and Malthusians, cloaked in PC piety, will be busy throwing out anchors and reefing economic sails for actions that are primarily symbolic. What a pity it is still legal to sell slave grown chocolate in Palo Alto. What a pathetic bunch of poseurs we elected.

[Rudolph]

Not unexpected from "Mayor" Kishimoto--what a good way for her to avoid addressing the important issues facing the city--this way she can avoid upsetting the NIMBYists, neighborhood leaders and yellers-and-screamers in this city to whom she owes her allegiance.

[Uncle Buck]

To read that Palo Alto's first priority is addressing climate change and the environment if facinating. If they turned over the entire city vault to such activities it wouldn't move the needle in the least amount. A visit to some truely environmentally challenged locations might impove their perspective but at this point it has become a religious movement.

[Craig]

I am going to go a bit countercurrent, for me, on this one.

I don't believe that global warming is a big issue. I have doubts that it is actually happening.

If CO2 is an issue, and there is urgency, then we should be building nuclear power plants. Well, OK, I think we should be building them, anyway.

However, I think it is also good to go green, at least in certain ways. What is wrong with recycled materials, well insulated buildings, passive solar design, photovoltaic cells, wind power, integrated power grids, fuel efficiencies, new materials (e.g. nanotech), innovative research?

As long as we also get nuclear power within the mix, that is great.

I am waiting for Mayor Kishimoto to embrace nuclear power, along with all the other good stuff. She will then be realistic, and I will vote for her.

[Walter E Wallis]

Pigs fly?

[R Wray]

"Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification."

The above is from commentary on http://tinyurl.com/358v4t .

[Walter E Wallis]

The only thing we can be sure of, this is an opportuity to impose controls on the economy and individual behavior that Joe Stalin would admire.