Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Green protestors have gathered at Governor Jerry Brown‘s Californian climate conference, to demand Brown end his big oil climate hypocrisy.
Protesters call for greater action outside California climate change summit
By Daniel Uria
Sept. 13, 2018 at 5:02 PMSept. 13 (UPI) — Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a climate change summit in California Thursday, calling for elected officials to do more to combat climate change and pollution.
Gov. Jerry Brown, who organized the Global Climate Action Summit, was the target of some of the criticism brought by the demonstrators as some held signs warning this was his last chance to choose between “fossil fuel or our future,” The Los Angeles Times reported.
“We have a plan to phase out oil, to bring in total clean technology,” Brown said. “If they have a better one, let me know.”
Protesters called for Brown to create new protection zones around oil and gas production sites and questioned his decisions to approve new oil drilling permits.
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Governor Jerry Brown’s growing trouble with his former green allies may date from when Jerry Brown allegedly misused state resources to have a frackable oil survey done of his private property.
Since then nothing has gone right for him. Brown has been attacked by renewable energy activists, who accuse him of secretly undermining their mission. He has been attacked by pro-nuclear greens, for forcing California’s emissions up by closing zero emissions nuclear plants. Both sets of greens are furious at Brown’s continued encouragement of oil exploration in wilderness areas he controls.
Brown wants to finish his governorship with a legacy of climate policy milestones and green achievements. But looking at the increasingly angry public statements of his former green friends, Brown’s climate legacy is in tatters.
Update (EW): Fixed a few typos
Let’s help him. Cut off ALL oil, gas and coal produced electricity to California NOW. Help preserve his legacy. Stop the fossil fuels today.
Don’t forget about the Oil being refined into Gasoline. All Gasoline shipments to the state must stop as well as all Oil Shipments to local refineries (Unfortunately I live too deep within the state to be able to travel and fill up my Durango out of state so…Never Mind)
“climate policy
milestonesmillstones”Corrected it for you
Having tried to make reasonable compromises with environmental organizations we learned it was all but impossible. We would walk out of a meeting believing we had hard worked out compromise. Meanwhile they called the news media, in which they called us names, claimed we were not willing to compromise and demanded ever more.
One new, relatively intelligent but naive boss just couldn’t understand. After working out a deal with dramatic compromise the environmentalists left the meeting and demanded more. He called another meeting where he agree to even more compromise on our part, only to be nailed personally in the news media by the environmental group before he got home from work that day.
Bottomline, until their leaders, all of whom are not environmentalists, are in total control they will not be happy and will not be satisfied.
Indeed. give them an inch and they demand dozens of miles more.
Record the meetings so when they try it again, you can go “no u lyin” and publicize the evidence. And if they refuse to attend a recorded meeting, great. Show ’em the door and let ’em cry.
I’d like somebody to create a new data set that shows the decline in average California sanity, where the general public there is concerned.
I dare say that a graph illustrating a trend would show decreasing sanity, as CO2 increases.
Another good data set would be the number of news reports coming into existence. Again the trend graph would show that, as the number of news reports increases, the level of sanity decreases.
New people coming into existence (i.e., being born), never having experienced wild fires or hurricanes, are very impressed when they see these phenomena — terrified by them, worried by them (as they should be) — but this is NOT a new terror — it’s just more newly existing humans EXPERIENCING this sort of terror for the first time, and more news media than ever before reporting this neophyte terror. And then it gets warped into something unnatural and conflated with issues of global responsibilities, and, well, it becomes the mess we longer-living folks now see.
What a mess !
Perhaps a look at the a percentage of students who actually graduate high school and SAT or ACT scores of hopeful high school graduates might be some indication as to intelligence.
Don’t know exactly how sanity might be measured. Where do they test critical thinking other than real life?
This headline made me think of the claim I found on a conservative website this week (the kind suppressed by Google, Twitter, Apple, etc.) to the effect that a lot of the money for these greens comes from Russia. Russia knows better than to believe all this hysteria, but finds the greens useful. Russia’s entire economy is heavily based in oil and natural gas. They don’t want American competition. California is a major oil producer AND a major seaport state.
Whether Russia (or China) directly fund the green blob (wouldn’t surprise me if they did) it’s undeniable that they stand to benefit from us screwing up our economy trying to fight a non-existent problem.
Governor Brown, the Greens, the San Francisco Chronicle and the California Legislature are being duped by an application of the equivocation fallacy on the part of global warming climatologists ( http://wmbriggs.com/post/7923/ ).
Shutting down Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is a huge mistake. If greenies are really worried about CO2, nuclear energy is their best bet. These people want us back in the stone age so any reasonable solution is DOA.
He started it. Give ’em an inch, they’ll take a mile.