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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We will know who is messing with whom when companies move away and take their
jobs with them.
Well, I know what my own personal pick for a QOTW is:
And if we had global warming in line with the CO2 increases and those potentially-disastrous effects the IPCC and the more-extreme alarmists warned us would happen actually had happened, then people would have more confidence in (C)AGW “science”. They say things will happen, they don’t happen, in a logical world that should indicate to them they had faulty assumptions, were working from bad theories and hypotheses, etc, they should try again from the start and find things that really do work.
So what was the problem? Communication! From (C)AGW proselytizing to the election campaigning, the reason given for declining public confidence, worded several ways that mean the same thing, is these are complicated technical issues that are hard for “common people” to understand, thus the Esteemed Experts have failed to convey to the public both the seriousness of the problem(s) and how there is Absolute Certainty theirs is the One True Solution that Absolutely Will Work and Absolutely Must Be Done. Or really bad things will happen.
To the remaining residents and businesses of California, good luck with CARB. Maybe some day these people will realize we did get their message, and decided it and them are not to be believed nor trusted. Until then, it is they who do not not know who they are messing with.
BTW, Side Note: Was it some strange sort of non-racism and/or Political Correctness that kept Obama from using the traditional phrase “whipping”? As it stands, the Traditional Woodworkers of America are ready to complain about the denigration of classical shellac finishes. 😉
Have lived in Callow-fornia twice. We used to spell it different back then.
Re. Rhoda R says: …… Katherine says: ……
Thanks for the info, I did not know that is was used in such a way… But my concern on that statement was that it seemed to be a justification to ignore rising levels of atmospheric CO2, and I thought it to be an unusual justification. It should be noted that the methods you have discussed are controlled medical techniques, and a simple volume increase of CO2 in the atmosphere will displace O2, and can be hazardous to oxygen breathing life in concentrations of less than 4%. While I don’t expect CO2 concentrations to reach poisonous levels…. I still don’t find these techniques to be justification for claiming its “a life giver”…. No offense to the author by the way… Ohh and I also feel that if a “warmer” had made an equally extreme justification in favor of CO2, he would have been “ripped a new one” by some folks in here…. haha
None of you have any idea how powerful this woman is now. With AB32 moving forward, control of the CARB board and the backing of a Democrat State Senate, Assembly, and Governor… she can make up just about any regulation she likes. She can and will command a increase on gas and electricity to discourage use. No further approval necessary from legislature or voter. The state will get richer from hidden taxes and the poor will… well, you know the rest.
AB32 is so broad and poorly written, Mary Nichols is now effectively the Queen of California. It’ll be interesting to see how the queen commands us.
President Obama stated yesterday that “there is more than one way to skin a cat” — Cap and Trade is essentially dead legislation.
Why is California pursuing a Dead program?
Mary Nichols is out of touch with reality and needs to go.
Report: Carbon market falls on Obama’s cap-and-trade retreat
By Ben Geman – 11/03/10 05:05 PM ET
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/127577-report-carbon-markets-fall-on-obamas-cap-and-trade-retreat
Carbon markets saw the writing on the wall Wednesday when President Obama said cap-and-trade legislation will stay on ice after the big GOP midterm gains. Obama pledged to find other ways to cut carbon, noting, “cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat.”
Bloomberg reports: “Futures contracts in the U.S. Northeast’s carbon market fell the most in more than four months after … Obama backed away from the national cap- and-trade program he once sought.”
I believe that the sense of “Shellacking”, meaning beaten, comes from the practice of whacking a loser repeatedly with a Shillelagh until he cries, “Uncle” or is beaten senseless. However, the origin of the slang is uncertain.
Well the Traditional Woodworkers of America need not be concerned with Obama’s usage of “shellacking.”
My recollection of the use of shellac, in the finishing of fine wood products, involved dissolving the shellac flakes in Turpentine; and then beginning the extremely laborious; but necessary process, of dipping a cloth into the shellac solution, and rubbing it onto and into the wood surface; for literally hours and hours, to be sure you got a uniform and deeply embedded shellac finsish. with a very high sheen to it.
There was another way to do it however; and that was the Tom Sawyer (or was it Huck Finn) whitewashing approach, in which you simply dipped a 2 inch brush into the shellac solution, and you simply slapped that all over the place; just as Tom’s “Customers” slapped the whitewash on his fence (for a price).
It is that slapping it all over the place with a brush that properly constitutes “Shellacking”, and no wood worker who is a fan of “Frecnh Polishing” would dare do anything so crass to his wood masterpieces.
A properly rubbed shellac finish is a thing of beauty; and not at all like a shellacking.
So as used in the competitive victory connotation; it implies not just beating your opponent; but slapping him every which way in the process.
You could say that in the first two games of the 2010 “Whirled Serious”, the SF GI-Ants delivered a shellacking to the Texas Rangers. It’s the slapshod nature of it that constitutes Shellacking; not just blowing the opponent out of the water.
And I should add that the term has nothing whatsoever to do with a “shillelagh.”
Well, I guess you can argue California is killing Texas when it comes to higher unemployment and massive budget deficits. I think Texans will take that over the World Series.
Curt says:
November 3, 2010 at 6:55 pm
“The interesting and appalling thing about the successful campaign to defeat Prop 23 was that it did not mention climate change at all. All of the ads implied that the isssue was standard pollution. They showed kids with inhalers, saying that the proposition would increase asthma problems, etc.
If they felt they couldn’t sell it on the basis of preventing climate change, maybe there is hope!”
I wish this were true, but I have met too many here in CA who really do believe that CO2 is pollution. While channel surfing recently, I stumbled on a children s’ educational show as the teacher telling a group of kids about pollotion said he could smell the CO2 in the air that morning. Unfortunately, nonsense like this has been part of the required curriculum for elementary students bere for decades. The masses have been programmed to believe, and do. Their common response to the assertion that CO2 is not a pollutant; is to laugh and call the messenger stupid names..
How can rational thought ever prevail?
It seems hopeless, but choices do I have. I keep trying, and hoping, but it is tiresome. If it weren’t for my rationalization that it is part of the price I have to pay for the mosquito free ocean tempered sunshine that attracted me in here the first place, I’d have left long ago.
BWD
From BigWaveDave on November 5, 2010 at 1:09 am:
What, you can’t get good enough “mosquito free ocean tempered sunshine” in Hawaii? ☺
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
“What, you can’t get good enough “mosquito free ocean tempered sunshine” in Hawaii?”
Perhaps I could, but Hawaii is crawling with scorpions, spiders and centipedes, some the size of cats, and every time I have gone to Hawaii, I got “Rock Fever”, (sort of like claustrophobia) after about a week, and couldn’t wait to get back to a continent.
Plus, housing and most staples like food, cost about twice in HI, as they do here. Food costs here will probably catch up with Hawaii, soon, but housing prices will no doubt go the other way.
BWD