Now that California’s Prop 23 to suspend the AB32 global warming law has failed, you get some real clarity from the players. If you ever doubted that our current crop of “save the planet” bureaucrats think they are above answering to the very citizens that pay their salary, this quote should put any doubt you may have had to rest.
From public TV station KQED’s “climate watch” blog:
“They didn’t know who they were messing with,” said Mary Nichols, when the first numbers came in from the polls.
Wow. Just wow. Hubris maximus. Lady, you need a reality check.
Read the holier than thou hubris yourself here. Read here why Prop 23 was felled by feelings, and not by facts.
Here’s the effervescent Mary Nichols dealing with CARB’s DiplomaGate:
The Orange County Register reported:
Cover-up taints costly diesel policy
A year ago, high officials of the California Air Resources Board learned that the author of a statistical study on diesel soot effects had falsified his academic credentials.
The researcher, Hien Tran, acknowledged the deception and agreed to be demoted, but after his data were given another peer review, they remained the basis of highly controversial regulations that will cost owners of trucks, buses and other diesel-powered machinery millions of dollars to upgrade their engines. The Tran study concluded that diesel “particulate matter” was responsible for about 1,000 additional deaths each year.
Now more fallout from that “landmark diesel law” comes last month:
BREAKING: SFO Chronicle says “Faulty science behind state’s landmark diesel law” – an error of 340%
I have to ask: Ms. Nichols, do you have any idea of what you or your agency is doing? Because I gotta tell you, CARB looks wholly incompetent from this vantage point.
h/t to Russ Steele at NC Media Watch
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I love clarity. This is perfect. Obama does it all the time, too. We know exactly who they are, and we allow them to proceed. We elected them. We must want it this way, or we would change it. Congrats to California for being very clear, if nothing else.
CARB snuffing small business one at a time.
I (for one) am rather happy that California has decided to donate any jobs and industry it may have to the rest of the country, the rest of us can certainly use them.
I seriously recomend for businesses and productive people to relocate outside of California. Costs are lower and will soon be much lower in neighboring states. They are lower still in the upper midwest. There are significant facilities available to buy or lease in Michigan and Wisconsin coupled with a better trained work force.
If you need help finding a place I can help or refer you to someone who can.
Flabbergasted, absolutely flabbergasted.
CARB has a lot in common with the EPA . I hope the new Congress can put them on a short leash , but that may not be likely . Please see my post at Tipa and Notes .
Mods – the link appears not be working . Could you help ? ( It might just be on my end – please advise .) Mank thanks , P .
I wonder if are just mad that the safety net (it is something…) got through while heading off the frontal attack 😉
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2010/11/california_prop_26_the_morning.php
Hope they don’t expect the rest of the country to bail them out when their economy fails, but I expect they will.
So……LEMMINGS WERE CALIFORNIANS…. couldn’t until wait the Big One!
Last news said some folks have seen a tribe of Big Foot crossing the border to Mexico 🙂
Well I think Mary Nichols is absolutely correct.
“They didn’t know who they were messing with,”
I have no idea how one would best describe her.
Too many “lukewarmers” who think the Global Warming hysteria is “exaggerated” and the “solutions” just too expensive.
The reality is that these alarmists are 180 degrees wrong: both warming and CO2 mean more life. Polar bears increased from 5000 in 1970 at the beginning of 3 decades of warming to 15 000 three decades later at the peak. CO2 is plant food directly; to fight it is murder of the poor by starvation to death (one of the cruelest deaths there is).
I understand the alarmists used a video of asthmatic children to promote their hysteria in California. The reality is that CO2 is used at 100 times atmosphere to help preemie babies’ lungs mature. I know of no research on CO2 concentrations and asthmatics. I can only suspect that actual research would find elevated CO2 levels would help them.
I repeat: the hysteria is not merely overblown; it is CONTRARY to fact. We will make more progress when more of us say so.
–Esther Cook
Texans will be more than happy to exchange a World Series loss for the 100,000 or so jobs that will be created there by businesses leaving California. My wife and I will not be starting a business but will soon be enjoying living there.
The first time I went to Paris (France) I was shocked by the color of the buildings. They were supposed to be white, not gray-black, and by the fact that I had to blow my nose several times a day just to remove all that black soot from my nose. In Europe they mostly only use diesel engines. Soot is everywhere, even in your shorts. It’s filthy and you can’t see the stars at night. Apparently more people die of smoking there than soot.
Carl Pope put it succinctly: “It tells me that the future of California has arrived,” the Sierra Club chairman told me on election night. “Once you create a clean energy economy, people will not let it go.”
This is the quote that tells the story. They won’t let go… no matter what. Expect to hear from the new governor in a couple months asking Obama, Harry Reid, and the newly elected Republican House for a little help balancing the CA budget. Brother can you spare a trillion. Meanwhile that “green economy” starts looking for a location where they can operate without government interferance, like China, India, or New Jersey.
I posted this is a previous thread. Since it is relevant here, I’m reposting:
The comments by Arnold Schwarzenegger are telling. He told they crowd that “California beat Texas”, but by what measure? In the census, California has not won. By one estimate, Texas will gain 4 seats in the US House of Representatives, while California loses 1. We will have to wait for the official count, but even if California keeps 53 seats, Texas has not lost.
In China and India they all sing …”wish they all could be California, wish they all could be California…..”
California is rapidly committing suicide.
Unelected religious zealots have way too much control over the economy of this state.
See what happens when you allow Marxist educators around the children for too long? An entire states who’s population has just proven they are incapable of rational thought.
Arny’s right, California is whipping Texas! California’s unemployment is at 12.2% and Texas a meager 8.1%. On the other hand from July ’09 to July ’10, Texas added 182,100 jobs and California added 16,700 (6th best in the nation). Nothing like misguided policies, based on information from special interests, to run a once prosperous state into the ground. California should ask Michigan about it (i.e. unions).
CARB and the California Coastal Commission form what is basically a shadow government within California. Their whole purpose is directed towards stopping development whether they’ll admit it or not. There’s no compromise with them, you simply comply with their wishes, period. They do not work to find any compromise between the needs of developers/employers and the needs of the environment they simply tell you that the environment cannot be disturbed and your project is shot down. They do not answer to the voters. They are barely restrained by the elected representatives, if at all. They use everything at their disposal to make you look like someone who burns piles of tires every day if you complain to the media. They’re basically California’s environmental dictators. And no, I do not think that is hyperbole. There is no compromise with a dictator, there is no compromise with CARB or the CCC. They simply do not work with developers to reach effective modifications to plans that enable the project to go forward, they only find reasons to block the whole thing.
So yeah, it’s not surprising she would say that, she comprises the only political body in California that answers to no one, and has no shortage of deep-pocketed supporters within the state. This state is slowly turning into a “for the wealthy only” state, as the wealthy here seem to delight in making it impossible for a working-class to exist.
I am sure in the months and years to come Californians can bask in the warm glow of their bloated moral certainties. Of course jobs will be scarce and unemployment will rocket and public services will decline and crime will rise and those wealth creators will flee and housing prices will plummet and the poor will be unable to afford basic energy needs BUT thats a small to price to pay for knowing that big energy and capitalism has been defeated.
The willing and eager self termination of a once mighty state by its own inhabitants and political leaders on the alter of corporate big eco as they tug at the heartstrings of the gullible and the ignorant. The slide is going to be fast and steep and ugly to witness and the morons who cheered will be where when the chickens come home to roost? Well Californians cannot say they were not warned and that nobody tried to explain the dangers.
Keep a close eye on the mic under her nose. Fascism personified!
It’s 97 degrees today at 1:40 p.m. in Los Angeles – and it’s November 3!
Wise-cracking friends emailed me to say it’s just Mother Nature, cranking up the heat in California, far beyond what puny CO2 could possibly be responsible for.
CARB, though, will very likely describe this warm episode as one of the predicted (and preventable) heat waves that will be more and more frequent as global warming progresses due to man-made CO2.
I don’t live in California, so I’m actually glad to see Prop 23 go down, and see politicians like Boxer and Brown get elected. It will be interesting to watch how things play out over the next few years and see just how successful they are with their clean energy economy and greenhouse gas reductions. I’m betting it won’t go well. I’d also bet that California was expecting a lot of assistance (mostly financial) from the federal government, but last light’s results just threw a big monkey wrench in that plan.