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
This may be off topic, maybe not. With all the problems with most “green” tech, why is it that something that looks like it would be of utility gets so much resistance.
Electric scooters,,, activated by your phone. Not for me, but for many they could be better then a car.
Cities in California are trying to block the introduction of them. Guess not invented here.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/09/12/john-stossel-hey-san-francisco-and-new-york-don-t-kill-scooters-let-s-see-where-take-us.html
it is a laugh anyway
michael
The thing you have to do is consider how effective the plan is. Sometimes its easier to see the craziness if you use an analogy.
They are seriously proposing Paris as a solution to a crisis which is caused by human CO2 emissions. So you would expect that if its the solution, it would reduce those emissions.
Instead the plan is to reduce the West’s emission, and to increase the developing world’s emissions by almost the same amount. So total emissions don’t fall at all.
Now, if this were a case of sharing out the goodness fairly, this would make more sense. If there were a limited amount of steel for construction, lets say, and the Chinese were living in bamboo huts, fine, we could argue its only fair they should get more. The rest of us being reasonably better housed.
But this is not the argument. The argument is that we are collectively destroying human civilization with our emissions, so the argument that ‘its only fair’ cannot possibly have any traction. How can we be arguing that ‘its only fair’ that the Chinese principally and the developing world behind them should destroy civilization?
The problem is that the remedies proposed, if the account of the problem is correct, do nothing to remedy it.
This is why I keep pinching myself and asking whether anyone really believes this stuff. Or have they just never been thought to think connectedly?
And when we see California announcing that it is going to fight climate change by reducing its own emissions, have none of them asked how big an effect on climate those reductions would have? How effective would these reductions be under the IPCC account?
Presumably no-one has, because the answer would be tiny and vanishing. California, were it really bothered about global warming, would do better to fund research into proper alternative energy sources, probably fusion or other nuclear. There it has competitive advantage, there it might make a real difference. Just closing down power stations and erecting wind farms, its doing nothing for anyone, including them.
If Brown thinks California’s climate is going to change because of the actions he’s taking, he’s totally deluded. It’s not going to change a thing.
Exactly. Succinctly put.
and if he is not ‘deluded’, then what his game?
Power, and not the kind that keeps lights on.
Pres Trump is the “enemy of the people”? How about Gov. Brown is “an enemy of people”. He has ‘previous’ in terms of supporting death cults. Look up Jim Jones of the People’s Temple infamy. Brown was a fan.
“sonofametman
Look up Jim Jones of the People’s Temple infamy. Brown was a fan.”
That *IS* interesting. And not widely known either I bet.
There is a book Utopiates by Dr. Fort. Might explain a lot of Cali behavior.
Published by Tavistock Clinic in London.
Here’s Jerry’s folk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mzyXNWYmfXg
I thought Obama would be one of America’s best presidents. That was until he converted to the climatology religion.
Freeman Dyson is an Obama fan, he’s disappointed Obama got climate so wrong.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/12/freeman-dyson-democrat-supporter-climate-skeptic/
I thought Obama would be one of America’s best presidents
You obviously were not paying attention when he was running for office or else were extremely naively optimistic
Or he’s one of those guys who thinks the world is improved when government takes over stuff.
I knew he would be a disaster since before the first primaries.
Every speech he gave indicated that he was nothing more than a far left rabble rouser.
He was always talking in an us vs them mentality and how other people owed him stuff.
Example please?
Read any speech given by him.
For me, it was his complete lack of background. He was a nobody who came from nothing.
His speaches were either all scripted from two teleprompters, or if he tried to speak without a teleprompter he was hopeless and confused. When he got interviewed his only message was Hope and Change, but never did anyone ask him what was hoped for, or what would change.
He was groomed into the position, that much is obvious. He had no skill and and no experience, how could he be good?
What got me was how the media made a big deal over Palin’s lack of experience but was silent about Barry’s. Palin was running for the VP slot and had more executive government experience than Barry who was running for the top spot.
There is only one policy that the Greenies could follow: Renounce the use of all fossil-fuel based products…
Although the governor – to be , Gavin Newsom , is perhaps more business friendly than Brown he is cut from the same progressive- liberal cloth , so Brown’s initiatives re Climate and renewables will not change.
However Californians need not lose any sleep over this because, as “Chris” so repeatedly and correctly reminds us, California is the richest area in the USA , and possibly the world, in terms of personnel, material, financial and industrial resources. There may be hiccups on the road to 100% clean energy but nothing that cannot be easily overcome and almost certainly in less than 27 years , maybe 5 at the most .
No, what worries me is the probability that the California project will be exported to countries like the UK which has fewer material , financial and land resources .
Currently the UK is governed by an unholy triple alliance of false news media , greedy Green entrepreneurs and financiers and politicians so dim witted you wonder whether they need the help of family or carers to get themselves washed and dressed each morning. The California initiative would destroy UK’s already fragile prosperity.
California’s dream can only be realized if they plunder other states.
Resources mean nothing if the government does not allow people to exploit them.
High tech companies can relocate to another state in a matter of months.
Brown’s talk borders on treason. The Democraps in this country have gone full-on cuckoo, into dangerously so.
You know, for all the effort the climate science establishment puts into “communicating science”, you’d think they’d put some effort into communicating to alarmist politicians. As overblown and one-sided as the impact studies are, saying that “climate change is a real threat … of ultimate extinction” is going *way* beyond them. And you’d think that Jerry Brown, who obviously hasn’t bothered to read anything from AR5 himself, would take their word for it.
While they are at it, maybe they could tell McKibben that cheap natural gas from fracking is the main reason the US *decreased* CO2 emissions, unlike most of the rest of the world. I’m not “anti-carbon”, but people who actually are should pay attention to things that actually work.
Dale, the goal of the “anti-Carbon” crowd is not, and never has been, reducing CO2 emissions (if it was, they’d go nuclear & they’d embrace nat. gas from fracking). Reducing CO2 emissions is just the tool they use to get to their real goal – Wealth and power redistribution in the name of “social justice” and socialism.
By reference to ‘computer models’, Brown’s resultant childish behaviour on show here (also of Climate Scientists – glances at Gavin and Phil) *and* a recent report that children are coming to despise their own mothers’ phones:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45472216
Was she right to do what she did
Is there a lesson..
In Wyoming, kids are taught about climate change so they can hate Daddy for working on oil rigs and paying for their iPhones and having a house to live in. Stupidity is everywhere.
Jerry Brown is just sore because Arizona is going to replace California as America’s West coast.
I believe Arizona is upping their share of the illegals in preparation to take over.
If too many illegals gather in California, will it capsize?
That means so much coming from Moonbeam…..NOT.
Climate McCarthyism is upon us.
Pat Brown is reduced to name calling. Ho about that tax you levied on vaping (electronic cigarettes) making them as expensive as cigarettes? I charge you with being an accessory to thousands of deaths from lung cancer. Pat Brown is even worse than the worst of the tobacco companies. He is pure, unadulterated (and stupid) evil. Par Brown, rhymes with clown.
This may help explain some of the points discussed here.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/09/11/government-for-hire-emails-show-climate-industry-funding-special-interests-inside-governor-and-attorney-general-offices/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRkaE9EQXpZelpsTTJFMSIsInQiOiJXdk5jRXVTQXRzYzZZZnhLRlZjTmJwcUhmbkJjZjc4TGE2TUxQcFZWSk5oQjAzbXRpaHVON0FKVCsyY0d6MFVtUkVweENtRkZMQXRmRW5zaU1Qc1pGb2FVRVwvcWJcLzI2bmkrdlZ4bUtwcDJrMzArMUtjb2x5c2ZOTGFybHEzK2JoIn0%3D
The report–https://cei.org/governorsclimatescheme
“Enemy of the people”
The favorite tactic of demagogues. Trying to make your point more legitimate by saying everyone is apparently supporting you or something. And if you dare disagree, you are an “enemy of the people”. But which people exactly? Trump won because millions voted for him. Are they not part of the “people”?
To be fair Trump used this fallacy too. Someday I meet a politician who doesn’t resort to BS in order to advance his/her goals.
Guys, this is serious. These D’s have gone full Bolshevik. “Enemy of the People.”
This man has helped ruin his state, and blames the effects of his incompetence on climate change caused by Trump. So, Trump is a “wrecker” now too, I suppose.
Really. This is not funny. These people are serious and dangerous.
Well I guess we know of which People Trump is an enemy: He’s an enemy of The People who openly or secretly hate the US, and despise the Constituition, who openly or secretly love Socialism/Communism, who pretend to love science but who totally misunderstand and abuse it for their own twisted goals, who pretend to be “concerned for the environment” as a front for their twisted agenda, and who believe that the ends justify the means in their pursuit of said twisted agenda. Those People.
The Climate Change Deniers Gulag Gang.
Brown has it backwards. Trump is a friend of the people and people like Brown are the enemy of the people.
What Brown really means is Trump is the enemy of people like Brown (ie left-wing socialist green blob types)
Hmmm. It terms of actual effect, the ‘enemy of the people’ is really the other way around.
Yet another, in a seemingly endless number of examples of how progressives invariably accuse their opponents of what they actually are.
It’s their ‘tell’.
They have met the enemy; and it is them.
But the reality is that the climate change we are experiencing today is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and plenty of scientific rationale to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. It is all a matter of science. So if current climate change is bad then the one to blame is Mother Nature. Hence it is really “Mother Nature” that is really the enemy of the people. Lots of luck in trying to fight and defeat Mother Nature.
Brown is incompetent and looks to blame others to deflect attention from the fiscal train wreck he leaves California in .
Just like Vancouver’s “Vision ” party that had it’s own mimi moon beam jumped out with a parachute just as his party crashes broke after destroying livability in Vancouver and a activist traffic plan designed to screw things up . How many cities created job titles like Climate Protection Manager ? (Since abandoned )
Alberta is going to run the NDP (left wing socialist party ) off the political landscape like Ontario and soon to follow the embarrassing Canadian federal party under Mr. Dress Up .
You have to work extremely hard to tank California The real Moon beam legacy .
From the article: “California Governor Jerry Brown has declared President Trump is the enemy of the people,”
Trump is not the enemy of the people, he is the enemy of the Radical Left. The Radical Left arrogantly and ignorantly assume they speak for the People, but they do not, as evidenced by the election of President Trump.
When you hear socialists claiming that Trump is destroying the nation or some such warning, what they are really saying is Trump is destroying the socialist dream of fundamentally changing the United States into Venezuela. It’s real serious to the socialists, but sane Americans benefit when socialists lose.
Climate change is big money to socialists.
As the zealots are SO worried about the current 400ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, what is their view of the 40,000ppm they breath out? I suggest a gween collective holding of breath day. How about a gween breath holding Goreathon with the commander in chief and his hapless sidekick mann holding their breath live on tv. I would certainly tune in to watch that.