5:25 PM 12/14/2018 | Energy
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
California Gov. Jerry Brown excoriated the Trump administration’s “behavior” at the United Nations climate summit in Poland, arguing it did “not represent the people of the United States.”
“The United States, I’m sorry to say, does not represent the people of the United States,” Brown said in a video address Thursday to U.N. delegates gathered in Katowice for the summit, called COP24.
“California, Washington, New York, Vermont and many, many other states representing tens of millions of people believe in the science of climate change, believe and demand we reduce our carbon emissions,” the Democrat said.
Brown was reacting to news the U.S. joined with Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait in blocking the conference from “welcoming” a U.N. report on limiting future global to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100 — a report called for in the 2015 Paris Agreement. (RELATED: TheDCNF Asked Paris Climate Accord Backers If They’d Support Banning Private Jets. Most Didn’t Respond)
President Donald Trump promised to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris accord in 2020. Brown is one of Trump’s staunchest critics when it comes to the planned Paris withdrawal.
Leaders at #COP24, this is your chance, this is your time. pic.twitter.com/d9YofZtwkm
— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) December 14, 2018
“We recognize the science undergirding the knowledge we have today on climate change. If we’re going to stay below 1.5 degrees Centigrade from the industrial period we have to take action now,” Brown said.
“The actions and the behavior of the leaders of the United States and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and Russia and other countries are not acceptable,” Brown added. “This is a suicide mission upon which you have embarked. Pull back.”
However, the U.N. report Brown refers to estimates $122 trillion would be needed to fund the new green energy infrastructure needed to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The report, released in October, also says a carbon tax needed to meet that temperature goal would be as high as $27,000 per ton, or a $240 tax on a gallon of gasoline.
Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during a briefing with State officials as U.S. President Donald Trump, Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom (R) and FEMA head Brock Long (2nd L) look on at the incident command post in Chico, California, U.S., Nov. 17, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis.
Thousands of U.N. delegates, government officials and environmentalists gathered for the two-week climate summit in the heart of Poland’s coal country at the beginning of December. So far, the conference has been bogged down by the usual disputes about how countries hand money to poor nations to adapt to global warming.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a desperate plea for countries to agree on key details of the Paris accord, which the Obama administration signed onto in 2016. However, emissions are expected to rise another 3 percent this year, despite the Paris accord going into effect.
“People are dying because of climate change. In fires, in mudslides, in floods, in other parts of the country,” Brown said in his video address. “This is serious stuff. You represent humanity. Over 7 billion people are counting on you.”
“Don’t resort to what will be condemned in future years as nothing less than a criminal enterprise. Wake up!” Brown said.
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Governor Brown is part of the lunatic fringe.
Just a month or so ago, Governor Brown was schooled by Trump about forest management and forest fires.
Beside Brown’s trying to lead every eco and enviro movement in California, changing his allegiance and beliefs to suit the loudest voices in the state; Brown depends upon extremists and biased mass media for his all of his talking points.
Making one suspicious of Brown’s ability to reason.
Many of Brown’s pronouncements are faint echoes of the shrill claims he’s heard as the words fall out his private belief chamber. Along with his insistence that Brown’s version of California is supported by 100% of American citizens.
Brown and his quasi-Marxist foam-at-the-mouth Libtards are still smarting from Trump’s election, and that it was the Electoral College which elected him, not the popular vote. So when you hear their rhetorical vomitus about “the people”, that is what they mean. They hate the EC, and would like (they think) to get rid of it. It’s a hate borne of convenience and circumstance though, not rationality.
He is just a puppet of the NWO whose goal it is to destroy Western society.
The mob vote is almost always a near 50/50 split in any US presidential race. Even in “landslide” victories, it may only deviate as far as 55/45. A 60/40 split would be considered absolutely crushing. Getting a few hundred thousand more votes than the other guy, in an election involving tens of millions of voters, does not a “popular mandate” make, though the lefty-leaners like to pretend otherwise.
Fortunately the mob vote is only a statistical curiousity with no actual bearing on the results.
Getting a few hundred thousand more votes than the other guy, in an election involving tens of millions of voters, does not a “popular mandate” make, though the lefty-leaners like to pretend otherwise.
It’s only a “popular mandate” when their candidate wins it, when the other guy is the “popular” winner they point to such a thin margin as proof there isn’t a “popular mandate”. If it wasn’t for double standards the left would have no standards.
Arnie went one better at Katowicie as reported in The Australian by Graham Lloyd Dec 14-
‘For Schwarzenegger the biggest evil is fossil fuels. “If we had never started in that direction and used other technology, we would have been much better off.”
He says people are not interested in climate change because it is something in the future. People are more concerned about the day to day. How they can put food on the table today, how they can make money today and how they can have a job today. The answer, says Schwarzenegger, is for the messaging to shift from climate change to pollution because pollution kills people now.
“Seven million people die every year because of pollution — especially in Third World countries like India and China, a lot because of indoor pollution,” Schwarzenegger says.’
Careful Arnie as shifting the goalposts from the bogeyman of colourless, odourless gaseous plant food to air pollution points the political finger away from all we deplorables in the developed West and guess who that leaves? Just a tip Arnie, stick with the mung beans and global warming/climate change/climate disruption/extreme weather meme mate or you’ll soon join the heretics.
Hey I got an idea, let’s take natural occurring disasters that have always occurred in the past and show no signs of getting worse (ie hurricanes, tornadoes, flood etc etc) and blame them on our fuel use. Anyone with me? Oh, you say this idea has already been shoved down our collective throats? In that case…never mind.
And it’s only Democracy, when a leftist wins.
There is no science behind the claim that we need to prevent the Earth from warming more than 1.5C from the depths of the little ice age.
The actual science says that we have been warmer than that line at least 3 times in the last 5000 years, and for most of the last 10,000 years we have been warmer than that.
The irony, it burns.
It’s called projection. S.O.P for the left.
Why is Brown even there? I hope he paid for the trip out of his own funds. (yeah, yeah that was sarcasm)
Jerry Brown addressing the members of the UN climate group says that what the President says does not represent U.S. positions. Waaa? Now Jerry Brown speaks for the entire country denying the Executive branch authority and stated position – this in itself is a violation of federal law. Lock him up.
Moonbeam seems to forget that the first word of IPCC stands for “Intergovernmental”.
His opinion as an outgoing state governor is meaningless drivel. As usual to what comes out of his mouth.
America is very lucky to have Trump. Without him, the corruption would be complete by the raft of corruption,greedy individuals who care for themselves and not the Country
We have the same problem in the uk.
The revolution will happen. Hopefully peacefully.
unfortunately peacefully doesn’t look possible as the left have already started the violence (see: Antifa). It’s only going to get worse before it gets better.
Edit. Corrupt not corruption as referee to individuals.
Your have to give credit to Democrats for remaining true to their ideological namesake: donkey or ass.
Jerry Brown who..?
All this is disgraceful, specifically the number of times the verb “believe” is associated with what’s sold as science.
I can already envision the times when former green preachers will have serious issues just walking down the streets.
Their deceptive attacks and phraseology are those of sore loosers. Facts are long gone, irrational fears is all that’s left for sale.
Congrats to Capt. Trump for switching off the money that fuels their boilers. No fuel, no fire.
Good riddance but be careful what you wish for. I don’t see California returning to a semblance of balanced government in my lifetime. It will inexorably deteriorate into a puddle of Socialism and stay there until there’s no one left worth stealing from to shore up their Utopia. Already the once stately San Fransisco has declined to a cesspool of crime, filth, disease, and welfare and it will spread from there.
“. . . a cesspool of crime, filth, disease, and welfare . . .”
Surely, you are talking about Los Angeles.
It’s a description that fits both.
However, as I don’t recall any news articles about LAs needle and feces in the streets problems (unlike San Fran:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/04/san-francisco-turns-to-simple-street-solutions/
), I’d say that while the term cesspool might figuratively fit LA it literally fits San Fran.
Governor Jerry Brown is the idiot architect of deadly California wildfires, if he weren’t governor he would be charged with homicide.
Always the same story give us money right now or the planet will be destroyed in a hundred years. This years copout 24 had 25000 people. If that money was used properly how many schools and hospitals could have been built in Africa? For that matter they represent 100,000’s of rent seekers all over the world sucking up resources that could better mankind. This whole thing is a crime against humanity and a few are getting rich off it. Find out who these criminals are and Investigate them.
I live in California and tens of millions of people dislike this man. Our votes are rigged or Repubs would win here.
122 trillion?
That’s a lot of money!
No wait, if every human on earth pays their fair share it’s only around $70,000 per family of four.
Never mind
Jerry Brown, you poor idiot . . . just read the US Constitution! Whether you like it or not, the US president, as leader of the Executive Branch and Commander-in-Chief of the US’s armed forces, does indeed represent the lawful citizens of these United States as long as he remains in office.
Please show me any place in the Constitution that shows any other single person has this role in an international setting.
(And yes, I am aware the citizens in individual states are represented by their respective Members of Congress, but these of course don’t have a Constitutional right to represent the US as a whole in international dealings. And please don’t bother me with arguments about representation by the US ambassador to the UN and the various ambassadors to individual countries, all of whom serve at the pleasure of the President.)
Yeah, but…but…”Not My President”!
Notice how many conservatives needed safe spaces, puppies, and coloring books after this last election?
The rash of fake hate hate-crimes from people on the right, making stuff up to make the left look bad?
Zero and counting.
But Jerry Brown doesn’t even represent the views of all the people of California.
He represents the only one that counts in his mind. And he seems to think it is the only one that counts in the country and possibly the world.
He’s also very humble. Just ask him, since his opinion is the only one that matters in the Moonbeam-Verse.
California Über Alles
“Don’t resort to what will be condemned in future years as nothing less than a criminal enterprise.”
Sounds like sage advice on policy for anyone standing for election against Moonbeam.
Jerry Brown will never govern me.
Let him lead the high speed rail workers union or the ice continent of Antarctica.