Jon Reisman
Maine’s Climate Council, co-chaired by Office of Policy Innovation and the Future Director Hannah Pingree and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Melanie Loyzim is updating Maine Won’t Wait, Maine’s climate action plan. The plan seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (principally from transportation), phase out fossil fuels, encourage solar and wind, promote (undefined) “equity,” and have at least 30% of Maine publicly owned and controlled for conservation and carbon sequestration.
I plan on attending the September 17 hearing at the Bangor Public Library and delivering this:
Climate Council Chairs, Director Pingree and Commissioner Loyzim:
My name is Jon Reisman. I am a retired UM Machias professor of economics and public policy. In 1995, I served in the King administration, implementing the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, which involved contentious energy and environmental policy choices involving federalism, efficiency, equity, automobiles, emissions modeling and measurement, agency credibility, public opinion, and politics. There were marked differences between the two Congressional Districts and rural vs. urban Maine. I cannot help but channel Yogi Berra: It’s déjà vu all over again.
I have the following comments on the updated Maine Won’t Wait Climate Action Plan:
• The plan is silent on how much climate change Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions reductions will avert. The ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but to avert and mitigate climate change. The entire exercise is a consequence of climate alarmism, the belief that anthropogenic climate change is an existential threat to humans and the planet. There is no estimate as to how much of this apocalyptic “climate emergency” threat is being reduced/averted. The reason is because the answer is none.
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Jon Reisman is an economist and policy analyst who retired from the University of Maine at Machias after 38 years. He resides on Cathance Lake in Cooper, where he is a Selectman and a Statler and Waldorf intern. Mr. Reisman’s views are his own, and he welcomes comments as letters to the editor here or to him directly via email at jreisman@maine.edu.
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