‘Achieving carbon neutrality for one’s current emissions is not the end-goal, but rather a bridge to more substantial reductions’
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Governor Gavin Newsom today announced yet another climate change partnership – this one between California and Kenya, “to advance efforts to cut pollution and support trade.”
Who has to cut pollution – California or Kenya?
Governor Newsom is acting more like Prime Minister Newsom – the head of his own subnational government, which operates below a country’s national or central government.
“The Governor led California’s delegation in a bilateral meeting with the delegation from Kenya, led by Kenyan President William Ruto. California and Kenya signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at Climate Week in New York yesterday,” Newsom’s press statement says. Text of the MOU is available here.
A climate Memorandum of Understanding is not legally binding. Nor can a governor of a state within the United States of America sign a compact with another country, even for climate change.
“Today’s announcement builds on the partnership announced Tuesday between California and Brazil on climate,” Newsom said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom inked a partnership between California and Brazil “to scale up cooperation” on climate change schemes, clean energy, cutting pollution, and “job-creating climate opportunities,” the Globe reported Wednesday. What a contrast between Gov. Newsom and President Donald Trump who said when addressing the UN General Assembly, “This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion.”
Gov. Newsom calls climate change “the existential issue of our time.”
Con job or existential threat?
“Anybody who tells you that carbon dioxide contributes to air pollution either doesn’t know what they are talking about, or worse, they are deliberately trying to deceive you,” COLAB’s Andy Caldwell told me again recently. “Carbon dioxide is what each one of us exhales after every breath we take. C02 was never considered a pollutant at all until the onset of climate change theories, and only in that regard is it considered a negative.”
Remember when in 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of climate change legislation – “some of the nation’s most aggressive climate measures” – “to achieve carbon neutrality no later than 2045 and 90% clean energy by 2035, establish new setback measures protecting communities from oil drilling, capture carbon pollution from the air, advance nature-based solutions?”
“Carbon neutrality” is a catch-all now for anything climate changy. “Achieving carbon neutrality for one’s current emissions is not the end-goal, but rather a bridge to more substantial reductions,” Yale sustainability experts claim.
Aha, it’s “a bridge to more substantial reductions.”
In October 2013, California Gov. Jerry Brown, together with the Governors of Oregon and Washington and the British Columbia Premier, signed the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, ‘to align climate change policies and promote clean energy,’” I reported. “The Pacific Coast Collaborative links with the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange (WCX), a compact between California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The WCX is linked to the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative.”
Then in 2022, Newsom re-inked that deal with Oregon Governor Kate Brown, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and British Columbia Premier John Horgan. They “doubled down” and signed a new Statement of Cooperation, another climate agreement – the Pacific Coast Collaborative – “recommitting” the Western region “to climate action.” Gov. Newsom called climate change “the issue that unites all of us, not just here, but around the rest of the globe.”
It appears Gavin Newsom is uniting himself with 28 countries, because the people of California don’t get anything out of these deals, except higher taxes, higher energy costs and more regulations on business. If that presidential thing doesn’t work out for Gavin, he can always run the Climate Action wing of the United Nations.
Anyone catch the item here……Il Duche Slick signs a pack with a State? that is under their Federal Gov.
The little dictator of the State of Calif. had his political and ethical head handed to him the last time he tried to avoid the Constitution of the United States that clearly states only treaties with other countries can be signed by the President and then confirmed by the Senate.
Once again Slick proves his irrelevance both on the national as well as the State level by stating he is the great defender but cannot do it under the law. It is called the supremacy clause …. but once again Il Duche doesn’t get it.
Perhaps it is time for him to take his high school civics classes over again.
Geez did you vote for this guy? Why?