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Question #5. Describes greenhouse gas emissions sources and quantities in the
City…Recommends initiatives and voluntary implementation measures the City and community can
take to achieve greenhouse gas reduction…” Page 3 GCI Please provide a cost-benefit analysis
showing the dollar cost to achieve a specific change in climate. Will that change in climate be
localized to the City or be demonstrable at the State, Country, or global scale?

Question #6. “The Green City Initiative recommends the City develop a monitoring program to
assess the effectiveness of the Initiative.” Page 3GCI Please provide the parameters of the
monitoring system/. Please define what will be defined as a “successful” Initiative.

Question #7. “Climate change is in part exacerbated by many daily activities, such as using natural
gas to heat buildings, burning gasoline to drive vehicles, generation of electricity from fossil fuels and
transport of water.” Page 6 GCI Please define exacerbated by providing an established scientific
relationship between how much a numerical measure of these daily activities changes the
climate.

Question #8. “All these activities release greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2),
methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), into the atmosphere” Page 6 GCI. Please identify the
number one GHG. (Answer: Water vapor accounts for approximately 95% of the GHG effect.) Please
identify the human contribution to the total CO2 natural and human originated. (Answer: All human
activities amount to about 5% of the total CO2 produced; 95% is the result of natural earth
processes.) Please estimate the total human contribution to the GHG effect as a result of human CO2
activities. (Answer: About 5% of 5% or about 0.25%.)

Question #9. “Science has clearly established global climate change as a real and significant threat
to humankind.” Page 6 GCI. Please identify a time when this was not so; this is a statement calling
for human adaptation; climate has always been a moving target.

Question #10. “The National Academy of Science…indicates warming h as accelerated during the
past two decades.” Page 6 GCI. Please explain conflicting reports from NASA, Hadley Climate
Research Unit, and others which agree that there has been no detectible global temperature-increase
for over 16 years even as atmospheric CO2 has increased 10%.

Question #11. “Climate scientists estimate potential increases in temperature could be 1.5 degrees
Fahrenheit by 2050; and 4.9 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100…” Page 6 GCI. Please explain the basis
on which such “potential” increases are based. If they are from computer models, please explain how
such models have failed to predict the current 16 years of global temperature stasis, even as cO2
levels have increased 10%. What is the track record of such computer models vs. the actual
temperature record?

Question #12. “increases are expected to be more pronounced in summer than winter” Page 6
GCI. Please explain the origin of this statement. GHG theory predicts warmer winters in the
Northern Hemisphere.

Question #13. “heat waves are expected to increase in frequency with individual heat waves also
showing a tendency toward becoming longer…” Page 6 GCI. As the actual record shows no such
trend or pattern for the past century, please provide the evidence for this claim.

Question #14. “concentrations of greenhouse gases likely will accelerate the rate of climate change.
Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased nearly 30% since the advent of the Industrial
Revolution.” Page 6 GCI. Please explain the relationship claimed. The majority of the observed
global warming took place before the 1940s; the majority of CO2 atmospheric increase took place
after the 1940s. Please explain the logarithmic effect of CO2 concentrations in GHG theory. That
theory indicates that most of the CO2 contribution came with the lowest levels of CO2; as more CO2
is added, it has a smaller and smaller impact on GHG warming.