Bud’s comment published under “EXCLUSIVE: Top House Committee Opens Probe Into Climate Activist Group Attempting To ‘Influence’ Judges” at https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/01/exclusive-house-judiciary-committee-probe-climate-activist-group/

Hawaii’s green net zero law should be repealed immediately.  The only effects of this law will be to increase energy costs and thus costs of everything in Hawaii.  No reduction in CO2 or warming will ever result from Hawaii’s ill-advised, misfeasant or malfeasant law. 

Hawaii’s legislature and governor did not do their due diligence.  Human-produced CO2 from for example fossil fuels does not increase temperature.  Many research papers show there is no correlation between the trend of estimated CO2 emissions from fossil fuels compared to the trend of NOAA Mauna Loa-measured CO2 in air.  This means that human-produced CO2 from fossil fuels cannot be causing climate change or global warming, therefore efforts to reduce human-produced CO2 are futile and wasted money and resources.

A cause cannot follow its effect. Correlation is insufficient evidence of cause, however, if human CO2 emissions are causing the slowly increasing slope in measured CO2 (~2.5 ppm/yr) as claimed by UN IPCC et al, then among the evidence must be a positive correlation between the slope of estimated fossil fuels CO2 emissions (the largest source of human CO2 emissions) and the measured slope of net CO2, e.g., NOAA Global Monitoring Lab Mauna Loa.  But there no such evidence exists. The slope (or time derivative) of measured CO2 trend with FOLLOWS (not leads) the time derivative of the ocean surface temperature (SST); this was reported by Kuo, Linberg and Thomson who published their finding in Nature in 1990; see https://www.nature.com/articles/343709a0

Several other studies have confirmed this using a variety of data analysis methods: The most recent of these studies is by Koutsoyiannis et al.  see https://www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/5/3/35?fbclid=IwAR2U7ahMzdW0U79yGhgc-iJJoDavJ6xEhyQKG1AuoEvxcH4T_wk4s-HzkmM  

Professor Emeritus of business statistics puts it as follows: “The finding is consistent with prior studies that found no evidence to relate the rate of warming to emissions and they imply that the IPCC carbon budget is flawed possibly because of insufficient attention to uncertainty, excessive reliance on net flows, and the use of circular reasoning that subsumes a role for fossil fuel emissions in the observed increase in atmospheric CO2.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2997420 and “...The results do not indicate a measurable year to year effect of annual anthropogenic emissions on the annual rate of CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2642639 and “…“The results [at the following link] validate the robustness of the previous finding and imply that there is no evidence that atmospheric CO2 is responsive to fossil fuel emissions at an annual time scale net of long term trends. This result is robust. It holds for all possible combination of years in the study period 1958-2015.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2862438. 

In other words, the addition of human-produced CO2 to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels is not detectable in the trend of measured CO2 in the atmosphere, thus human-produced CO2 cannot be causing climate change, global warming, greening, or the other problems misattributed to human-produced CO2.