Guest essay by Eric Worrall
California Governor Jerry Brown has declared President Trump is the enemy of the people, because of President Trump’s insistence that people be allowed to choose affordable energy over green energy – though some greens have criticised Brown for not doing enough.
Jerry Brown Is the Face of America’s Climate-Change Resistance
By Emily Chasan and Mark Chediak
11 September 2018, 21:00 GMT+10U.S. President Donald Trump is the “enemy of the people” for hampering efforts to reverse potentially catastrophic increases in carbon emissions, California Governor Jerry Brown said Monday, blasting White House environmental policy after signing a bill that will move the state toward 100 percent clean energy use by 2045.
“Trump is not just AWOL on climate change, he has designated himself saboteur-in-charge,” Brown said in a telephone interview, citing the administration’s actions against California’s emissions standards, electric-car mandates and clean-power rules. “He has designated himself basically enemy of the people. I’m calling him out because climate change is a real threat of death, destruction and ultimate extinction.”
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While Brown will surely leave a climate-change fighting legacy, he has been criticized for what critics view as an uneven record. They complain that he failed to push for bans on fracking and on the permitting of new oil and gas wells in the state. Activists are planning protests during the summit.
“This is a place where he could be on the absolute cutting edge in the next climate fight,” said Bill McKibben, an author and co-founder of the anti-carbon group 350.org. “He has been completely unwilling.”
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Jerry Brown’s policies in my opinion have contributed to the ongoing Californian cost of living crisis, which charities blame for a surge of homelessness in California’s cities. While rent charges are undoubtably the biggest factor in this crisis, Jerry Brown’s expensive green energy is likely contributing to the pain.
Former President Obama explaining how green energy policies make electricity prices skyrocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
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Most retarded phrase evah!… “America’s Climate-Change Resistance”…
What’s next? America’s Plate Tectonics Resistance… America’s Entropy Resistance… America’s Laws of Thermodynamics Resistance… Good fracking grief!
*sigh*
Did you not know?
Resistance Is Futile.
– the Borg
Resistance is Futile, especially at absolute zero.
Only with the current state of affairs.
gravity resistance.. first step to resisting gravity, lighten load by maintaining an empty head.
I don’t know, but I heard that in Kentucky they overcome resistance with jelly.
KY, that is.
Coffee, meet keyboard!!(Cough, cough)
“Jams are too gritty, apricots are too smelly, I just love my Kentucky Jelly “- Earl Pitts.
https://youtu.be/STFwMDkMDWc
A DJ having a bit of fun on the air.
https://youtu.be/STFwMDkMDWc
😎
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results:
C40, with comments on Pres. Trump
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/C40
Earthjustice
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/Earthjustice
Greenpeace
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/Greenpeace
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results:
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/IETA
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/Dirk%20Forrister, IETA, Geneva, Switzerland
International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: Regions of Climate Action – R20
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/regions%20climate%20action
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: Holy See
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/Holy%20See
Geneve International, Switzerland
Search results: Caritas International
http://www.geneve-int.ch/recherche/results/Caritas%20International
Geneva International, Switzerland
Environment & Climate: Organizations
Scroll down to: Climate, Air section.
Caritas Internationalis
http://www.genevainternational.org/pages/en/102;Environment_
And many other organizations.
America’s reality and truth resistance. But wait, there is money to be had if you play the game.
UNFCCC
Articles on: Renewable energy.
Search results: Renewable energy
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy
Search results: 100% renewable energy
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=100%%20renewable%20energy
Try: https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=100%20renewable%20energy
UNFCCC
Articles on: Renewable Energy Mandates and Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)
Search results:
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy%20mandates
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20portfolio%20standards
Done state by state? Begin with small amounts of required renewable energy?
David,
Don’t you realize it’s about Climate Justice and feminist intersectionalism to these frauds?
Because no one knows what those terms really mean.
They remind me of the yoof of today. They’re always re-inventing some expression/term/jargon to prevent we oldies from understanding what they’re saying!
Don’t worry, they aren’t saying anything worth listening to.
Front hole.
We want Climate Stasis, Now!
These idiots and the idiots that vote for them are idiots. Disgusting smelly idiots. Am I being clear here?
Yes, very retarded phrase — “America’s Climate-Change Resistance” — probably deserves an award of some kind for being wrong on so many levels.
Coriolis Force Deniers!
Join the Resistance!!
http://realfunny.net/picture-5843-join-the-resistance-.html
Turning disciplined, low entropy electromotive energy into undisciplined, high entropy agitation.
The FBI is resisting the availability of cryptography.
Candidate Donald Trump was resisting the free speech of Apple in the iPhone decryption case.
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I just hope that Climate Change becomes a poisonous issue for anyone in politics.
If the scientific truth is accepted, it will poison the entire political left, which is one of the main reasons it’s been so hard to get lefties like Schmidt, Mann and others to support their position with more than just rhetoric and citing the abnormally normal trends they try to cast as unprecedented.
Schmidt is technically a high level administration official and is only 2 reports away from Trump, which means, among other things, Trump could compel him to apply the known laws of physics to provide robust and testable support for the high ECS claimed by the IPCC and which is used to justify all things CAGW. Not as an employment test, but as a sanity test of the current GISS charter and agenda. There can be no doubt Schmidt would fail at this task and if he’s half the scientist he claims to be, he knows so, and would likely resign rather than comply.
Unfortunately the climate nonsense has become a kind of religion, and religious adherents prefer to ignore things that don’t fit in with their faith. Creationists are a good example of such.
You can show a creationist as many fossils as you like, and all s/he will do is to cook-up some crazy ‘explanation’ as to how they got there WITHOUT being a couple of million years old.
All the main datasets show that temperatures have fallen since 2016. Try telling that to a climate activist, and they will flatly deny it!
I think it’s more a case of far left progressive politics becoming a religion. That it broke climate science by replacing the scientific method with conformance to a political narrative was just collateral damage.
Yeah, something like: “hmm.. looks like millions of dead things buried in mud layers rapidly laid down all over the earth.” Which is a whole lot more plausible than “something died and laid for millions of years on this spot unmolested until it was eventually covered up by dirt that we don’t really know how it got there.”
Or how marine fossils are found on top of the world’s tallest mountains…
Or how mammoths are found buried in-situ with undigested food in their bellies…
Evolutionists have their own crazy explanations.
Dinosaur fossils with traces of soft tissue exist. Objects of obvious human artifice have been found in coal deposits ever since we started mining them. Every coal deposit ever tested has contained measurable amounts of C-14, when the supposed age of the strata and the half-life of the isotope would necessitate an amount so small as to be immeasurable. Observers during the Mt. St. Helens eruption saw lava flows laying down multiple layers of strata in a matter of hours instead of eons.
Smoking gun evidence for a young(er) earth? Not necessarily. But enough to create reasonable doubt about the orthodox neo-Darwinist timeline. Evolution adherents, of course, prefer to ignore such things that don’t fit in with their orthodoxy.
You can show a vaxxer that nobody here is exposed to polio, that the polio vaccine doesn’t prevent someone contaminated elsewhere (where people are exposed to polio) to bring polio, and he will still pretend the vaccine protects those who aren’t going to be exposed.
You can show that vaxxers cannot answer the simplest questions about vaccines and they are still considered “experts”.
So it’s a lot worst than climate science (except in the few cases of super-extreme ignorance à la Cook, Lew, Oreskes) but so-called conservatives don’t care and only Tucker Carlson even dares to submit that asking questions isn’t a crime.
It isn’t rare for vaxxers to say stuff like:
– “where did I use the word zero” after saying “there is no change in rate of MS”
– a study doesn’t have to observe either more or less cases of MS
Donald Trump should try to drain that swamp as he suggested he would. The flaccid Congress won’t help, they haven’t even been able to do something as obvious as impeachment of top members of the FBI.
Hey moonbeam, what climate change?
“They complain that he [Govenor Brown] failed to push for bans on fracking and on the permitting of new oil and gas wells in the state”
“… The oil and gas industry also makes significant fiscal contributions to California’s state and local governments, including more than $26.4 billion in state and local tax revenues and $28.5 billion in sales and excise taxes …”.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/How-Big-Is-Californias-Oil-And-Gas-Industry.html
As an Australian federal politician once said (paraphrasing): ‘never stand between a state governor and a bucket of money’.
Ever notice that the catch-cry “climate change” comes out when the left is rabbiting on about some BS. It is the all-purpose whipping boy. Eventually, political enemies (climate skeptics and other conservative free-thinkers) will be blamed for the “climate change” and be subjected to whatever the left likes dishing up. This is usually most unpalatable.
this is sadly the normal order of things, as feelings have as much validity and weight as knowledge – those that dare challenge this will be over run by the mass of innumerate, thinking-challenged people who will do as they wish (before they begin turning on themselves as they always do)
Add in the dispicable manipulation of tragedies, as may occur with Hurricane Florence, the loss of life, property, the overwhelming “saturation” tv coverage of peoples pain, hurt, & misery, these are always good propaganda tools that will be used!
“I’m calling him out because climate change is a real threat of death, destruction and ultimate extinction.”
Wait…assuming he’s talking about humans, I thought that’s what they’ve wanted all along. Damn them and their constantly changing goalposts…
Exactly. Seems to me that Jerry and the Resisters should be THRILLED at the prospect of us human parasites getting thinned-out by mother Gaia
It’s like Antifa calling themselves anti-fascist when everything they actually do and say is actually everything fascist.
Similarly, Claiming to be “for action on climate change” is exactly the same, doing it accomplishes exactly what you say you are against.
The Democrats are either fiendishly evil or they are the dumbest animals on Earth ever to walk on two legs. I favor the latter explanation. It requires the fewest assumptions.
Joel, they’re both. That’s what scares me
Not everything Antifa does is exactly fascist. They wear black. The original Fascists wore…never mind.
For those who might be confused, Mussolini’s Blackshirts predated Hitler’s Brownshirts.
joelo
Some turkeys [Thanksgiving nosh] are pretty dumb.
Won’t climb out of a flooding barrel, and that.
And they have two legs.
In light of that,
“The Democrats are either fiendishly evil or they are the dumbest animals on Earth ever to walk on two legs. I favor the latter explanation. It requires the fewest assumptions.” – does set the bar pretty high.
Somewhere in the thermosphere, maybe?
Auto
Jerry Brown has been an existential threat to my family during his latest rein as Gov. Not President Donald J. Trump. He is pricing my family out of this State, and the very moment that the economy starts moving toward the next downturn … my property values will plummet when everyone is simultaneously escaping Gulag California.
Words of Advice: Leave now before your property values plummet.
Seriously. Leave. Don’t be stupid. Also, don’t come to Colorado, we’re full
Were I in the situation, my only problem would be that I couldn’t in good faith let somebody buy my house when I know it’s value is going to nosedive in the near future. 🙁
Unless said somebody was a self-righteous Green. Then I could sell with a clear conscience. 🙂
Pack up the family and head on over to the other LA (Lower Alabama). Low cost of living, nice beaches, no CARB restrictions on autos, and only seasonal traffic problems (and that is being fixed).
I was there for two weeks, 40 years ago.
I remember the nice warm water for skiing. Nice people. Lots of cockroaches.
Nashville is also full…
Guvna Brown is a clown. Proof? Go look at his official Governor’s Portrait:
So, when Trump calls the Resistance Press “the enemy of the people”, he’s inciting violence and “people will die”? Riiiight.
Al Gore under influence of scientist from NASA fool himself and billions of his supporters, that greenhouse gasses are responsible for climate change. As he was a Democrat – all Democrats repeat after him stupid reasons for climate change.
Republicans, when realized how important ideas for climate for their propaganda machine used their wrong science of climate change.
To save the USA citizens from huge problems in nearest future WE MUST REEVALUATE DEADLY WRONG SCIENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
If Jerry is so concerned about the adverse effects hydrocarbons pose to California why not just outlaw the consumption of all fossil fuels in California. Surely most of his socialist comrades would readily agree. Make solar mandatory and fill the Pacific with windmills.
…and carry wind turbines with horses
Simple
I envision huge parking lots next to every road just outside CA for all vehicles and then another gravel parking lot in CA for all the horse and wagons 🙂
Soy Boy Brown (SSB) is only interested in the dollars he is not receiving under the current WH (white hat/White House) occupant that he did receive under the bath house barry regime. CONsider the trillions spent in eight years. Just where did it vanishingly go? Feeding climate hysteria for one. How to buy a politician…that’s especially easy with SSB… a no brainer…in the literal sense. CA falling into the Pacific is the least of their future problem. As someone posted here: leave!
An enemy of what people? Socialists love to throw around vague and ambiguous words like “the people” or “the public good.” Yet “people” are comprised of individuals like myself. Trump is not my enemy, and Brown doesn’t speak for me. The arroagance of these idiots who claim to speak for “the people” is sickening. Brown must have a lot to lose in this climate change scam, except for his mind – he lost that a long time ago.
Cascadian
Brown’s “the people” = Comrade.
Ah, sorry to dissappoint you, but you don’t count as people in his eyes, you disagree with him!
Using the the very, very old “common good” argument.
An enemy of the people who want more of other people’s money.
Once again, a liberal demonstrates that you either agree with them, or they destroy you.
Several Republican candidates were physically attacked in the past week. This is what the lunacy of the left is leading us to. A world in which political assassination is not only justified, it is encouraged.
Catastrophism is a moral slippery slope.
No crime is unthinkable to people who believe the world is on the brink of destruction, they believe their mission to save the planet supersedes all other considerations.
Absolutely correct. There will, not may, be a defence put up sooner than later of criminal insanity.
The first assassination of a Trump supporter by a leftist can’t be far off.
And after the trial and conviction, there’ll be paid rioters in the streets. Oh heck, they won’t even wait for the trial.
Whatever California chooses to do, it will have approximately zero effect on atmospheric CO2. The only way to affect atmospheric CO2 (maybe because there’s some doubt that it’s due to people anyway) is to compel the biggest emitters to drop their CO2 emissions to zero. That means China.
If President Trump wished to really control atmospheric CO2, the only sane thing he could do would be to declare war on China and compel it to quit emitting.
If you follow Governor Brown’s logic, the only way President Trump can avoid being an enemy of the people is to bring about the destruction of all life on the planet.
Is that really what you want Governor Brown?
I’m assuming he isn’t that insane and he just hasn’t thought the problem through properly.
commieBob
I don’t know what you call not questioning the underlying premise of climate change, that CO2 causes the planet to warm. Insane and thoughtless are two possibilities, but criminally negligent springs immediately to my mind.
This is a supposedly educated and intelligent man, responsible for millions of people, so how come he can’t establish what a thicko like me can, that no one has proven, by empirical, real world science, that CO2 warms the planet. Not one study trying to prove it has succeeded.
Why does Brown not know this?
And why does not POTUS DJ Trump not act on it – in any serious fashion?
Auto
Actually act – tho’ pointing out that the Paris shindig was signed by – now – private citizen HBO – is something, calling CO2 (a magic gas) is still, I understand, a ‘Pollutant’ . . .
Being a state Governor isn’t good enough for his legacy. He wants to be remembered internationally. Brown and Gore will end up in a pissing contest for being the climate change messiah. Even when it doesn’t materialize.
Is there a wall high enough to suit their egos?
He’s not the messiah……he’s a very naughty boy!
Sorry, I couldn’t stop myself. I’ll get my coat 😂
The fallacy of renewables is revealed with simple arithmetic.
5 mW wind turbine, avg output 1/3 nameplate, 20 yr life, electricity @ur momisugly wholesale 3 cents per kwh produces $8.8E6.
Installed cost @ur momisugly $1.7E6/mW = $8.5E6.
Add the cost of energy storage facility and energy loss during storage/retrieval, or standby CCGT for low wind periods. Add the cost of land lease, maintenance, administration.
Solar voltaic and solar thermal are even worse with special concern for disposal and/or recycling at end-of-life (about 15 yr for PV).
The dollar relation is a proxy for energy relation. Bottom line, the energy consumed to design, manufacture, install, maintain and administer renewables exceeds the energy they produce in their lifetime.
Without the energy provided by other sources renewables could not exist.
You are missing a BIG side effect cost – the cost of maintaining backup capacity that costs a lot even when not being used. Only some (not all) of the fuel costs are being saved when renewable power is being generated. This is the cost of duplicative energy capacity, something you will NEVER hear from the renewable folks. They folishly believe that having the ability to store someof renewable’s power suddenly transforms an unreliable energy source to a reliable energy source. It does – for a few hours.
Leftists don’t worry about reality. Stalin pushed his 5 year plan and the expansion of the Gulag to meet its goals. Stalin loved slave labor because it was “free.” The result was massive economic inefficiency, poverty, and death on a massive scale. Stalin managed to convert Russia from a grain exporter to famine in just a few years, for example.
Why mention Stalin. Where does the phase “enemy of the people” come from?
Oh, for any leftists reading this. What do you think happened after the 5 year plan failed?
Who do you think was punished? (Hint: Read about the Great Terror)
Basically he is the enemy of all of the corrupt people in Washington DC.
What is most sad is that their propaganda campaign is working. Most people are stupid and easily duped, but even intelligent people are susceptible to the logical fallacies that the climate change agenda is based on. Confirmation bias, recency bias, availability bias, and noble cause corruption have already done their damage, and will be very hard to reverse.
The skeptics must realise that the problem is that the warmers simple answers on all issues lke weather is very good properganda, backed by the money interests who like what this belief system brings to them it can only be combatted by equelly simple answers repeated again and again.
Such as CO2 is a good and essential gas, all life depends on it. Repeated again and again.
Instead we see the long winded scientifical correct explanationms which most people dont understand.
Such as “Ging Green is to go back to the 1800 times, lfe was short and brutal for most people”
Repeated again and again.
MJE
This said by the governor who couldn’t be bothered to repair Oroville dam when civil servants told him it needed it, and instead thought a high-speed rail that goes from Fresno to Sacramento and costs tens of billions of dollars was a good way to spend money.
Hundreds of thousands of Californians were nearly killed because of that political short-sightedness, but Trump is evil… right.
Despite the media over reactions, the Oroville dam was never in danger of collapse.
But the high-speed rail fits into the UN global agenda for sustainability?
It is almost unbelievable that a scam based CO2, lied about as a driver of climate, is an excuse for Draconianly stupid renewable energy policies that simple cannot work. The larger their renewable energy base, the larger the standard energy sources as back up. So, you build a 100% renewable energy supply and have to have a 100% second system to handle when renewable energy fails. Not to mention the horrible damage and unstable grip suffered on a constant basis. It’s tearing up Germany’s grid as I write. Unfortunately, Moonbeam is either horrendously stupid and gullible or he has a huge stake in this agenda; more likely the latter.
So true and well documented. No shortage of corrupt politicians, rent seekers and willfully uninformed voters in both Germany and California. $trillions wasted.
If Mr. Brown is really all that concerned why is it going to take 28yrs to get to 100% clean energy?
Because he will certainly be dead in 28 years and won’t suffer the inevitable consequences. He’s old like dirt.
And he failed to call for banning hurricanes, too. What a disappointment to the Left.
First let’s clearly note:
Rent prices for apartments and homes and the cost of Single Family Homes are tightly linked throughout the US. Supply and demand and their response to market conditions dictate this linkage.
With Cal’s urban area home prices sky high, landlords and rental companies for rental properties are going to price their rental to the market accordingly. They are not in the rental business for charity.
Next: As far as Jerry Brown and his band of Democrat thieves go, they are hopeless … utterly irredeemable.
The public unions and the Green hedgefund billionaires like Steyer and Soros own them. They pay for their campaigns, they pay for their dirty trick machines. They own Democrats lock, stock, and barrel. Expecting them to reform themselves, or educate themselves for a correction is like expecting the scorpion not to sting the frog. Stealing your money and laughing as they take away your liberties is what Democrats do to pay back their puppetmasters. Your paycheck and savings are their money to take as they please from Democrat’s viewpoint.
The only solution… the only solution… is to vote Democrats out of office.
Every. Single. One.
From the UK view President Trump has made some really good changes including EPA draconian rules [Obama]
Fracking, oil recovery, coal and despite his ill advised outbursts he has done far better as POTUS than the 4 previous incumbents and please ensure neither Clinton or Gore get elected for anything!
Brian Johnson
I largely agree with you but what most people overlook is that Trump’s not gone to war. Mag’s accidentally established that as a credible popularity booster with the Falklands war. Sadly, many since have deployed the same tactic in the hope their popularity rises.
Of course, the cry from the left is that he’s dangerous, a maverick and bound to start a war but, not so far. Yet this single notable success goes utterly unacknowledged.
Mm Mayday wants Trump to go to war in Syria over a staged chemical weapon white-helmet Olive-branch facebook video. Chatham House hates Trump for breaking Mackinder’s 200 year geopolitical noose around US Presidents necks. RIIA will test him to the limit, a nuclear confrontation with Russia notwithstanding. Macron , Haley and Bolton already gungho.
Has anybody an idea of CO2 behavior at 100 million degrees?
bonbon
“Has anybody an idea of CO2 behavior at 100 million degrees?”
Alarmists would have you believe that the initial 100 million degrees doesn’t matter, it’s the 0.00000000001˚C, CO2 contributes that kills you.
Shouldn’t Brown be in an institution where they have padded cells and strait-jackets?
Will the last person to leave California please turn out the lights. 😉 🙂
The way things are going it sounds as if they won’t need to!
They have Gov. Brown-Out…
Will the last person to leave California please turn out the lights
No need, with Cali’s reliance on 100% unreliable energy, the lights will go out all on their own.