Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Governor “Moonbeam” Jerry Brown has just signed what might amount to an economic death sentence for California, by signing California up to the bleeding edge of international green agreement lunacy.
According to Reuters;
May 19 California and leaders of 11 states and provinces signed an agreement on Tuesday to limit their output of heat-trapping greenhouse gases 80 to 95 percent by 2050, a goal they hope will help prevent runaway climate change.
The target, which is based on a 1990 benchmark, will allow the individual governments, which collectively represent more than $4.5 trillion in GDP and 100 million people, to tailor reduction plans to fit their regional needs.
Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/05/19/climate-change-agreements-idUKL1N0YA26Q20150519
What could make less sense? California is already haemorrhaging business and jobs to Texas, thanks to skyrocketing energy prices and rampant green tape. The obvious thing to do is more of the same, right?
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Seriously? Global Warming is a lie and only meant to control the masses via special interests. Also, since when does the U.S have Provinces? Mad, the world has gone mad…
Wasn’t there a Zero Emissions Vehicle law or something in California, around 1990? What happened to that?
Another Jesuit on the Dark side. I wish it was only drug-induced brain damage or senility.
Going to California
by Led Zeppelin
Oh, good. Liberals deserve credit for believing in beautiful ideas, even if they are crackpot. Others deserve condemnation for demanding that ideas conform to reality.
For a note of sanity Look to Tennessee:
LEADER: “Tennessee senators caution TVA about ‘romance’ with renewables”
“I don’t see why we need any wind (generation). If nuclear is zero (carbon and air) emissions and wind is more expensive, and you don’t need wind most of the time, why would you buy it?”
— US Senator Lamar Alexander
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2015/may/19/senators-tilt-against-windmillscautitvagainst/305033/
A friend sent me this article as I am packing to leave LA for DFW already. I’m a native of Los Angeles, and spent most my life in California. But the economics suck unless you have a top 10% income job. So I’m trading away my earthquake kit for a tornado kit. Houses are less than half the cost of those here, so I will make a tidy profit in the exchange. A hidden benefit is this: for a change, my vote will actually count.
At the end of April the Moonbeam Index was a hair over 3.1.
The Moonbeam Index is the ratio of one-way UHaul trucks rates for selected Cal – Texas and Cal- Washington state city pairs. The rental rates are directly from UHaul’s webpage rate quotes for a 26′ truck, which would be typical for a middle class family.
Most of the outbound rates are in the $1800-$2200 range. The inbound rates are mostly in the $650-$800 range. UHaul is basically renting trucks to inbound movers At Cost.., and making a nice profit when those trucks are rented by those fleeing Gov Moonbeam’s asylum.
No wonder everyone that can is leaving
California. They think they are so self important. Not any more. It’s China &
India’s world now!!
加州梦想
在妈妈们和帕帕斯
他们还没有这样做，在中国和印度
I was born and raised in the State of California. Thank god for the Great State of Texas, of which California was a cousin…Until…? California is now a cesspit of idiocy and anyone who helped make it that way should have to stay here and reap the fruits of the “utopia” they wanted so desperately. I’m moving to Texas. Thank God for Texas.
It is confusing for an alien to try to reconcile the largely detracting comments about California’s policies with the comment made just yesterday by Jai Mitchell:
“in addition, we have over 1 million paying jobs in the state working on renewable energy projects and conservation efforts. people are saving money and spending it in their own hometowns. California had 8 billion dollars in unexpected revenue last quarter and is looking at a budget surplus of up to 40 billion dollars. http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_28056793/californias-budget-surplus-soars-new-heights-schools-benefit
As the saying goes, democracy is 3 wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner.
Key sentence in that article: “When voters in November 2012 passed Proposition 30 — which raised taxes on the wealthy substantially and the sales tax slightly”
Basically, CA made a windfall in tax revenue by allowing the majority to vote to raise taxes only on the rich (typical democrat class warfare) – and now many of the rich will vote with their feet and leave CA. When they are gone, where will the revenue come from? And where will the jobs come from? Where will investment for new companies come from? Brown and CA democrats are digging an economic abyss from which no one is going to be climbing out of for a very long time. I predict CA will be crying for a federal bailout within four years.
– http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_30,_Sales_and_Income_Tax_Increase_%282012%29
I wonder what they are going to do when the rest of the country decides to save Social Security on the backs of the wealthy?
The world bank will look after the climate grovelers… with YOUR money !!
http://joannenova.com.au/2015/05/nobel-chutzpah-prize-2015-un-world-bank-need-89-trillion/
Demi’s in control of the state ignore 4th generation molten salt reactors that can cut emissions. They prefer bird blending 250,000 acres of wind mills for each nuclear plant they close. Insane!
As Joni Mitchell used to sing, “Take paradise, put up a solar array.”
Hey farmer farmer, stop growin all that bio-fuel now,
Grow food the living and none for the SUV — eee – zzz!
Hey, maybe California and British Columbia can get a big chunk of that $100 billion a year climate fund that India and China are going to set up? What do you think? We can use those billions to fund all the green millionaires the new economy will be creating.
It’s going to work. He’s on target to hit that 80-90%, and quite frankly this is probably the only way to do it. No people = no energy use.
Clearly, the sunshine, the wind and the atmospheric gases collectively agree now to slide around the perimeter of the signatory states because they are “silent” signatories to this agreement….
NO! We don’t want them. For they come here and begin to re-make our great state to look much like what they just left: high taxes, big government, environmental regulations out the wazoo, wealth redistribution, etc.
We don’t want or need that type of people here. Thanks.
first lines]Narrator: “As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.” Idiocracy
I wonder if California will also extend that ban to cancelling the importation of evil coal generated electricity. Or will they be hypocritical, claim the reduction in CO2, and outsource the carbon generation to Nevada or Arizona.
I suspect most of this junk is just window dressing, a political photo-op. If the Idiocracy is mindlessly implemented, the first unemployment riots will refocus the politicians back to reality.
There are a number of ironies and paradoxes related to what is happening here in California. Those who are the most entrenched in the Green religion also tend to be those at the upper end of income and education. High tech CEOs are notorious for embracing it as are well paid people in the entertainment businesses. Looking at my hood, you could knock on every door and at most 10% of the folks would dare utter anything remotely skeptical. My hood, which was a normal upper middle class place when we moved in, has changed quite a bit since then – Facebookers, Twitterers, Googlers and others working at less well known places have taken it over. The tech mavens are typically also deep green. I’ve nearly been run over a number of times by nearly-silent Priuses and Teslas.
I’ve nearly been run over a number of times by nearly-silent Priuses and Teslas.
No doubt twiddling their awesome gadgets, and paying scant attention to the road.
Let’s face it, solid green credentials are now required for entry into the chosen circles, cliques, and spheres of influence, which themselves are all in the parade of the green alarmist bandwagon, and help keep it aloft, and in motion, with their own hot air.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/faking-it-engine-sound-enhancement-explained-tech-dept … or at least a baseball card in the spokes make some sound when they are moving.
I wonder how much the cars range will be reduced by the power required to run those external speakers?
2050 is a long way away. He can promise anything, it will be someone else who will recognize the stupidity of trying to deliver on that promise.
My favorite quote from the Reuters story: “The temperature mark [2 degrees C] is the warming threshold at which governments say climate change could become catastrophic and irreversible.”
The Holocene optimum was 5C warmer than today. I wonder how the earth managed to recover from that irreversible catastrophe?