This is a surprise, a major TV station in Los Angeles pushes back against the California Air Resources Board AB32 bill aka California’s Global Warming Solutions Act. I urge readers to drop him a letter of support at the email address included in the transcript below.
Transcript follows.
LOS ANGELES – KTTV Vice-President and General Manager Kevin Hale takes a look at how one well-intentioned Climate Change Bill might damage our economy beyond repair in this P.O.V.
When Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 32 six years ago, it was pre-recession. And that legislation, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, despite its good intentions, will wreak havoc on our state’s economy.
The California Air Resources Board, under AB 32, recently approved the nation’s first “cap and trade” system, which effectively charges the state’s industries fees for emissions when they exceed a cap—in effect a tax—with the aim of curtailing California’s greenhouse gases.
The bill was passed for all the right reasons but the reality is, right now we are in a down economy, and AB 32 is a business killer. It effectively will be looked at as a back door tax that will push even more California businesses to move out of state.
California, although a leader on environmental issues, cannot solve the problem of greenhouses gases alone. When AB 32 was sold to voters, the promise was that other states would follow our lead. So far, none have.
A study by California State University, Sacramento, commissioned by the California Small Business Roundtable, estimates AB 32’s total cost to be more than $182 billion in lost output, raising living costs by $3,857 per household by the year 2020.
In light of these devastating numbers, I am asking Governor Brown and the legislature to put a moratorium on AB 32.
Look, we all agree that saving the environment is of the utmost importance but I believe that we should revisit this legislation when the economy improves and when other states are ready to join us.
Thanks for listening. I’d like to hear your Point of View. Go to myfoxla.com and click on P-O-V or send me an email at POV@fox11.com
Read more: http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/pov/pov-climate-change-bill-2012-03-15#ixzz1pIClmX6Q
Substitute the Australian Green/Labor governments position “When Australia has a $23/tonne tax on CO2 the rest of the world will follow our lead. So far, none have.” for ” .When AB 32 was sold to voters, the promise was that other states would follow our lead. So far, none have.” and you have . the loony left at work with your future.
“When AB 32 was sold to voters, the promise was that other states would follow our lead. So far, none have.”
Don’t hold yer breath. Most of us out here in reality curse the B/S government crap from the west coast that affects a lot of the products that are available elsewhere.
Go ahead, keep your AB32 tax scam. The rest of readily welcome your displaced businesses.
Perhaps a little O/T but still relevant to the plight of Californians under AB32, in a thought provoking post backed by facts TonyfromOz asks some very pointed questions about the alleged danger of CO2 emissions and the seriousness or otherwise, of efforts to stop them.
“Climate Change – The Canary In The Coal Mine”
“Over the last number of years, we are told about the emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and how this gas has been labelled as the worst one of those Greenhouse gases that are causing major warming of the Climate.
CO2 emissions come from a variety of sources, Industry, transport, farming, and also from natural causes, but by far the largest emitter of that CO2 is from the large scale generation of electrical power. This source is the largest of all emitters and in fact makes up between 35 and 40% of all (man made) emissions.
Those emissions come from all generating entities that burn fossil fuels in huge furnaces to boil water to huge amounts of steam to drive the turbine that drives the generator that produces that power. While Natural Gas and oil are used, they emit less CO2 than the largest source of all sources of CO2 emissions, large scale Coal Fired Power Generation.
Having been told for so many years now that this source of emissions is in fact so deadly dangerous, then you could imagine that something is being done about it.
So, is there an indicator as to what is being done to in fact reduce what we are told is the imminent danger that these emissions are causing?
Is there, figuratively speaking, a ‘canary in the coal mine’ indicator as to what is being done by those in positions of power to reduce, or even stop those emissions, if they are in fact so deadly dangerous?”
For full article:
http://papundits.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/climate-change-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine/comment-page-1/#comment-17109
If I may be so bold in saying so, skeptics have won.
Now, we must leave an exit for those taken in by …………external forces.
I love the Western US. I used to like California. No longer. If I had my choice, I would probably move to someplace like St. George, Utah. Problem is there isn’t any work there in my field.
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Saw this one. Well done.
JohnWho, the Greens’ secret agenda is not about C02 per se. Co2 is simply the all encompassing weapon to reduce consumption, reduce standards of living, encourage famine and resultant deaths and hopefully return us to a 19th century lifestyle. They however will be cushioned from much of the pain via funding, handouts, indulgent carbon offsets etc. Don’t believe me? See Al Gore, George (self confessed hypocrite) Monbiot et al.
Was that meant to be a joke?
pk, in 20 or 30 years time American citizens might become the new illegal immigrants into Mexico. badabing, bada booom bada bing.;-)
There is a bright spot in all this. As California’s population shrinks, more and more “earners” end up in adjoining states, leaving the “takers” behind in California. This outmigration will cut the electoral votes allocated to CA each Presidential election, while bolstering the Conservative share of the population in adjoining states, thereby making those states harder for the liberals to win.
Of course, a California “conservative” might look pretty liberal to a Texan, but at least they’re teachable, and can learn from experience. Liberals aren’t, and don’t. Hence, California.
Let’s think about it for a moment. Is it worth sinking California by the enforcement of this bill? Maybe for the sake of all the other states as well as the rest of the world. It will represent a model for all the world not to follow. It will become clear that enforcement leads to poverty and a loss of business. Just take a look at the businesses headed off to China. The West has lost its collective heads. The vicious fight against this wonderful trace gas just might trigger the genteel (or rapid) decline of Western Civilization. ;-(
talking about a “canary in the coal mine” by way of california. we had one, it was that blackened lump of feathers and @ur momisugly#$% that went out the chute when the california supreme court ruled that a person who had immigrated to california could begin drawing welfare and other benefits the day he she or it stepped across the state line.
~1968.
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I think you misunderstand the TV dude. He only wants to put it off for near-term economic reasons. Maybe that’s your point it terms of a realization, such as Monckton has spoken of? Otherwise California is all kinds of bad in all kinds of ways. If they didn’t have such a large coast and all those ports, they would’ve collapsed some time ago. Would be interesting how they play the CO2 brigade with those massive ships ‘polluting’…or even what’s allowed thru State restrictions in the US Constitution.
The models don’t work. PERIOD. However, since so many alarmists use the models to justify things such as AB32, those very same models can be used to show the futility of AB32 and Kyoto, and whatever comes next.
I must agree with you, however, that the modelers won’t release model results (which are not data, btw) if it doesn’t support their cause. This is just one more reason to not trust “science” that’s performed in secret. When the modelers start releasing their input data, algorithms, computer code and output, we’ll know they aren’t trying to hide something.
Raising the cost of living by $3900/yr: this is a false estimate of its impact. That $3900 is out of what is already a small proportion of your income, your discretionary funds. It will be equal to 50% of many retirement savings.
There is only so much income to pay for life’s necessities, both present and future. The income necessary to replace $3900 is always a multiple of such a number. In theory, you earn about $5400 more to take home $3900, but ask anyone who has received a raise to say if that is how it works out.
To get an additional $3900/year require a much bigger income increase. If the additional costs went towards some future benefit, then we would be okay – say you got $5000 more each year in social security because the money spent today reduced costs years from now. But that isn’t the case. The money disappears. There is no payback.
The Greens pay for their future with the money of others. If we could get the majority voting to understand that, the Green scam would be over.
The John and Ken Show on radio station KFI in Los Angeles has been fighting what they call the “Global Warming Final Solution Act” for years. Since Schwarzenegger IIRC.
The real cost to California is seen right here.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/03/california-tax-revenues-plunge.html
The amazing thing is Swartize, will never be taken to task for destroying Kalinornia, he already got his money and pension, like 99% of the liberals
It may also be a selfish attempt to reverse declining viewership by occasionally throwing up some sanity-bait to trick disgusted ex-watchers to come back in the vain hope of getting media support for opposing the Liberal-Statist Stupidity Conspiracy. A ratings ploy.
>:)