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?
They need an easier option where we just sign over the money for the next phase of high speed rail building instead of wrecking science in the current scam method.
The Honorable Governor has traded the cow for some magic beans.
Good luck with that Guvna.
Here’s a wonderfully researched and very well-written article by one of City Journal’s editors Steven Managa on the roots and depths of the Green Blob’s complete takeover of California politics from top to bottom.
As a 3rd generation Los Angeles native, born in 1951, who is ready to move to Texas (hoping they will have me) I have seen this from the ground.
(BTW, gas is now hovering around $4.00/gal…)
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_2_california-environmentalism.html
We will take California’s economy. We just don’t want idiot Californians coming here to screw up our politics, environmental or otherwise.
Larry, I just want to escape and live out the rest of my days in a sane state.
(BTW, I’m a huge Ted Cruz supporter, FWIW…)
When will Cal wake up to the monumental fraud perpetrated upon its citizens by the UN Climate boffins and their cohorts riding the renewables gravy train?
Not gonna happen ’till the state goes bankrupt or some other catastrophic event takes place.
If they are like leftists elsewhere in the world, they will blame those who left for abandoning their utopia and seek to pass laws to make it impossible for anyone else to leave.
Justin commented: “When will Cal wake up….”
Not in our lifetime.
Say what you want about global warming and the carbon tax destructive affect on the job market. Every time I turn around there seems to be even more researchers trying to get a piece of that grant pie, so it appears at least in this part of the economy, business is booming.
The Climate has not been changed by Humans and cannot be changed by humans. GLOBAL Warming predicted has not happened for 19 years as CO2 goes on rising. If excuses have to be given, it is admission not to believe the predictions, period.
Thank you Texas for taking these Climate Change refuges. We don’t need them here. We have enough trouble with all the Yankees that move down here. And tell us how great things were back up north.
Fear not. The Sun is now over its half life. And since we have no experience with solar cycles of our dying star we will probably face increased Maunder Minimums. And all those environ-mentals will freeze to death, or be burned at the stake of environmental stupidity. Probably we will as well—problem solved. Just sayin’.
I assume California is relying on the Greek method of economic management: spend up big, call on suckers to bail you out, repeat.
This is not a war on global warming. It is a war on the people … the people of California. And while Leonardo and Co will always be able to afford the costs of green policies, being filthy rich Hollywood actors, it will be the majority folk in California that will suffer the brunt of the impacts of this mad policy.
Republican Pete Wilson back in 1994 received more votes for governor than Jerry Brown did in 2014 even though California’s population has grown by about 10%.