Facing a ‘climate apocalypse,’ Californians are meh on plan to phase out gas cars

July 22, 2026 By Hailey Branson-Potts Leave a Comment

In September 2020, California was burning.

Deadly wildfires scorched a record-breaking swath of the state. Californians suffered from terrible air quality, struggling to breathe amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a sooty plume blotted out the sun. On Sept. 13, The Times published a striking Sunday front-page banner headline: “California’s climate apocalypse.”

In the midst of that chaos, Gov. Gavin Newsom, citing the urgent need to address the climate crisis and cut air pollution, issued an executive order banning the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.

Polling in the summer of 2021 by the Public Policy Institute of California showed an even split: 49% of Californians supported the plan. And 49% opposed it.

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Now, most Californians have soured on it.

A new statewide PPIC poll released this month showed that 66% of Californians now oppose Newsom’s edict, which directed the state Air Resources Board to come up with a plan to require 100% of new cars and light trucks sold in the state by 2035 to be zero-emission.

The air resources board approved such a plan in 2022, with Newsom saying: “It’s ambitious. It’s innovative. It’s the action we must take if we’re serious about leaving this planet better off for future generations.”

Today, per the PPIC poll, most Republicans (91%) and independents (69%) oppose Newsom’s order. Democrats are evenly split.

Opposition is especially high in inland areas such as the pollution-ridden Central Valley, where 74% opposed the order. The highest support came from the Los Angeles region, with 40% in favor (and 59% opposed).

People are worried about charges, both financial and electric.

Amid the spiraling cost of essentials in America — housing, healthcare, child care, gas, utilities, groceries — many simply cannot afford to buy electric vehicles, which typically cost more than fossil-fueled cars.

And in California, my colleague George Skelton reported, residents are not convinced there will be enough charging stations to handle a huge surge in electric vehicles, even though the state now has more than 200,000 public and shared charging stations, plus 800,000 chargers in homes.

The PPIC poll, per Skelton, found “plenty of contradiction and hypocrisy in the divided minds of Californians,” who “strongly favor fighting climate change — at least in concept — until it adversely affects them directly.”

On the other hand, most Californians (62%) favor California’s ambitious law requiring all electricity to come from renewable sources by 2045, per the poll. But fewer than 4 in 10 said they were willing to pay extra for clean energy.

PPIC polling director Mark Baldassare, who owns an electric vehicle, told Skelton he was struck by “the disconnect between what people support in policies and what they’re prepared to do.”

“Two things are going on in California now,” he added. “People have their long-standing concerns about the environment. But they also have immediate concerns about affordability.”

A new rebate is coming for EVs, which make up a solid chunk of sales.

Nearly a year after the expiration of a $7,500 federal tax incentive for new electric vehicles and $4,000 on used ones, Newsom, in his final state budget as governor, allocated $135 million to provide incentives for new and used EVs.

Eligible buyers will receive $3,500 off new EVs and $1,750 off used ones. Unlike the federal tax credits that expired in September, the incentives offer an instant discount and don’t require buyers to apply for credit later. The state and auto manufacturers will split the cost of the incentives.

California leads the country in EV sales, though the PPIC poll shows mixed views about them, with 12% of residents saying they own one and 33% say they have seriously considered purchasing one — and 54% saying they had not considered buying one.

The governor’s press office in an email declined to comment on the PPIC survey, saying it does not typically comment on polls.

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An Amazon climate summit built on contradiction, creating unease for California delegates

November 18, 2025 By Melody Gutierrez 1 Comment
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  • Thousands of delegates at the climate conference stayed on diesel-powered cruise ships, embodying a key contradiction at this year’s global event in the Amazon.
  • Infrastructure rushed for the summit reshaped parts of Belém, including new roads that cut through forest, raising concerns about environmental tradeoffs.
  • Local residents celebrated the global attention and economic investment while worrying the improvements will disappear once the summit ends.

Belém, Brazil — Two stark-white cruise ships loomed over a muddy Amazonian estuary, an odd sight from a beach where two children waded in the water.

The diesel-powered vessels towered over the impoverished riverfront neighborhood where trash littered the ground and a rainbow sheen from household and street runoff glistened on top of rain puddles.

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The cruise liners — with their advertised swimming pools, seafront promenades and an array of restaurants and bars — were brought in to house thousands of delegates attending the 12-day United Nations COP30 climate summit in Belém, which ends Friday. The ships helped address a housing crunch created by an influx of roughly 50,000 people into the capital of Pará in northern Brazil.

Along with being a global economic powerhouse, Brazil is also one of the planet’s most important climate actors. The South American nation is home to tropical rainforests that absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide but are increasingly threatened by deforestation and a drying Amazon.

The contrast — a climate conference relying on emissions-heavy cruise ships — has become the defining image of this year’s COP30, where wealth and scarcity sit side by side.

Belém residents said they felt a mix of curiosity and excitement watching the influx of foreigners, eager to show a culture that is often overshadowed by the country’s larger southern cities.

Many described COP30 as the first time the world had paused long enough to take notice of the people living at the mouth of the Amazon River, where locally grown açaí is sold on nearly every block. The region supplies the vast majority of Brazil’s açaí crop and much of what’s exported worldwide.

As humidity hung thick in the hot air, locals across the city of 1.3 million people pointed to expanded docks meant to attract future tourism, freshly painted walkways, restored colonial buildings with late-19th-century European touches and new cultural centers rushed to completion. But the sudden infusion of money layered atop long-standing inequality sharpened questions from residents about what will remain after the summit’s global spotlight fades.

Much of the summit footprint, they said, sits in areas where new structures were built fast, unevenly or only partly completed. Brazil’s government highlighted upgrades to Belém’s airports, ports, drainage systems, sanitation networks, parks and tourist areas, saying the work would leave a lasting legacy beyond COP30.

The BBC reported that a new four-lane highway built for COP30 resulted in tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest being leveled, including trees locals relied on to harvest açaí berries to sell. One roadway to ease traffic to the climate summit remains unfinished and blocked by plastic orange netting.

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Gov. Newsom Inks Another ‘Climate Deal’ – This Time With Kenya

September 27, 2025 By Katy Grimes 1 Comment

‘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.

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With its climate progress under assault, California takes up a multipronged defense

May 19, 2025 By Hayley Smith 1 Comment
  • President Trump has made specific threats to California’s environmental efforts, including its vehicle emission standards and cap-and-trade program.
  • Experts say the state has the tools, means and desire to to fight back through lawsuits and legislation.

Less than six months into his second term as president, Donald Trump has initiated or proposed more than 150 actions that experts say are detrimental to the environment, which range from cancelling climate grant programs to loosening regulations that govern air and water quality.

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Many of these actions have been part of the president’s larger goals of reining in government spending, increasing energy independence and restructuring federal agencies. But some also appear to target one state in particular: California.

Long known as a nationwide leader in climate and environmental policy, the Golden State has been in Trump’s crosshairs since his first administration, when he sparred with Gov. Gavin Newsom over issues such as forest and water-supply management. In recent months, Trump has escalated his California-specific efforts, including vowing to block the state’s ability to set strict tailpipe emission standards — a battle that has wound all the way up to the Senate.

Many of the president’s actions in the first 100 or so days of this administration have not only called out California by name, but also disproportionately targeted it. A leaked list of pending program cuts from the Department of Energy includes 53 projects in California — more than any other state — as well as more projects in blue states than red ones.

In April, the president named California in an executive order directing the Department of Justice to seek out and “stop the enforcement of” state laws that address climate change, in which he described California’s first-of-its-kind cap-and-trade program as an unfair means of punishing businesses for their use of fossil fuels.

Experts say it’s not surprising that the president is coming for California’s environmental progress. Trump received record donations from oil and gas companies during his campaign. Meanwhile, California, a Democratic stronghold, has set aggressive climate targets that seek to limit those industries and transition the state to carbon neutrality by 2045.

“One hundred percent, California is targeted,” said Mary Creasman, chief executive of the nonprofit California Environmental Voters. “It’s along the same lines as everything we have seen from this president: political retaliation at every turn toward anybody who disagrees with him on anything — and California disagrees with him on a lot.”

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Grimes: Senator Wiener Proposes Oil and Gas Industry Pay for ‘Climate Driven Disasters’

January 29, 2025 By Katy Grimes 2 Comments

By blaming ‘climate change’ for California’s disasters, there is no accountability for politicians

Californians are paying the price for climate change events and catastrophic wildfires happening in the middle of winter, said Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), as he announced his new bill, Senate Bill 222, “the Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act.”

But Senator Wiener has a surprise waiting in his bag of tricks – he wants you to be distracted by the Big Oil boogey man instead of focusing on irresponsible lawmakers who have been passing ridiculous, ruinous laws for years: These “climate driven disasters…” these “climate fueled disasters…” according to Sen. Wiener, “are causing all kinds of harm in our state.”

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“Who pays for them?” he asked. “It’s us, taxpayers and insurance policy holders.”

But says Senator Wiener, one industry is not paying for the disasters, and he wants them to pony up.

“The fossil fuel industry is fueling climate change,” Sen. Wiener said. “They [fossil fuel industry] knew it was leading to disaster for decades, and have incapacitated lawmakers” to make money, he said.

Senator Wiener says his bill, SB 222, “will ensure that the fossil fuel industry and those harmed by climate change disasters” will be made whole.

Wiener’s new bill will hold “Big Oil” responsible for natural disasters in California. And in doing so, will allow insurance companies and victims of fires, floods, rain and sleet, wind events, mudslides, and earthquakes to sue fossil fuel companies for damages.

As a political friend asked, “Will they hold a press conference tomorrow to sue Sees Candy for obesity?”

Do you see what Sen. Wiener is doing? He’s pitting the insurance industry against the oil and gas industry, hoping no one notices that it’s really dreadful laws and policies by the Democrats in power for decades who brought us to this latest disaster.

It’s a stunt. It will get Senator Wiener headlines. But it is also supposed to provide California’s politicians an alibi for their conspicuous role in California’s latest disaster in the Palisades and Los Angeles fires.

Wiener’s bill is in response to the Pacific Palisades fire, and ensuing LA fires, which have destroyed entire neighborhoods, businesses and schools, along with 28 fatalities.

In addition to blaming the oil and gas industry, his bill requires an evaluation of  the state’s Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan, FAIR Plan, and would allow it to sue the oil and gas industry as well.

In response to Senator Wiener’s announcement Monday, the Western States Petroleum Association released a statement:

“It is a shame that Sen. Scott Wiener and Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez see the Los Angeles fires as nothing more than a political opportunity. We need real solutions to help victims in the wake of this tragedy, not theatrics. Voters are tired of this approach.

“Every day, consumers, including Sen. Wiener, rely on and choose to use gasoline-powered cars and purchase products made from fossil fuels. Our economy depends on oil and gas even as California looks to reduce its carbon footprint. The vulnerabilities in the existing oil and gas infrastructure must be addressed. Otherwise, technical realities will get in the way of aspirational goals if left ignored.

“The announcement of today’s proposal is the latest installment of an ongoing effort to scapegoat our industry — and the thousands of hardworking women and men who keep California running — for political gain, while complex problems continue to go unsolved.”

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California air regulators approve changes to climate program that could raise gas prices

November 10, 2024 By Sophie Austin 1 Comment

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California air regulators voted to approve changes to a key climate program aimed at reducing planet-warming emissions that has a wide swath of critics and could increase gas prices statewide.

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The California Air Resources Board voted to make significant updates to the low carbon fuel standard, or LCFS, which requires the state to reduce the environmental impact of gas and other transportation fuels by incentivizing producers to cut emissions.

The plan approved late Friday at the end of a 12-hour meeting will increase the state’s emission reduction targets and fund charging infrastructure for zero-emission vehicles. It also will phase out incentives for capturing methane emissions from dairy farms to turn into fuel.

Environmental groups have criticized the program for stimulating the production of biofuels, which are derived from sources including plants and animal waste, when they say the state should focus more on supporting power for electric vehicles. They argue the proposal fails to adequately address those concerns.

The oil industry, state lawmakers and others have said the agency hasn’t been transparent about how the proposed updates could increase gas prices.

Agency staff released a cost-benefit analysis last year estimating the initial proposal could have led to an increase in gas prices by 47 cents per gallon by 2025. But the staff has not repeated the analysis since later updating the proposal and the agency contends it cannot accurately predict gas prices.

“If you’re going to ask drivers to pay a lot, which is what this program proposal is going to do, I think you need to be able to make the case that it’s worth paying for,” said Danny Cullenward, a climate economist with the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. “What concerns me most about this is I think a lot of the things that are being credited do not actually help the climate.”

Gas prices could increase by as high as 85 cents per gallon by 2030 and $1.50 per gallon by 2035 under the proposal, according to an estimate from Cullenward. Cullenward said his figures and the estimates initially released by board staff are not an apples-to-apples comparison, in part because his projection uses 2023 dollars and the board staff used 2021 dollars.

State Assemblymember Tom Lackey, a Republican representing Palmdale in Southern California, said at the meeting that his constituents cannot afford an increase in gas prices.

“On behalf of the people of the 34th Assembly district, I ask you to not approve this rulemaking and find other alternatives that won’t cost us quite that much,” he said.

The California Air Resources Board says the program will ultimately lower the cost of sustainable transportation fuels.

The agency first approved the low carbon fuel standard in 2009, the first of its kind in the nation. It is part of California’s overall plan to achieve so-called carbon neutrality by 2045, meaning the state will remove as many carbon emissions from the atmosphere as it emits. The state has passed policies in recent years to phase out the sale of new fossil-fuel powered cars, trucks, trains and lawn mowers.

“The low carbon fuel standard has already successfully created lower-cost, lower-carbon alternatives, and the benefits of the proposal vastly outweigh those costs,” Steven Cliff, the agency’s executive officer, said last month.

Suncheth Bhat, chief commercial officer for EV Realty, an electric vehicle infrastructure company, called the program “one of the most powerful, transformational policies” to speed up the transition to electric vehicles.

The vote comes a day after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom called the state Legislature into a special session to protect some of California’s environmental and other liberal policies ahead of former President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

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Climate Change Agenda: Media Hyping ‘Extreme Heat Warning’ When CA Temps are Not ‘Extreme’

June 4, 2024 By Katy Grimes 3 Comments

Shelter in Place coming so you don’t die from the heat!

For a week now most news outlets have issued dire warnings that California will be under an “extreme” heat wave this coming week.

Fox News reported breathlessly Sunday evening that temperatures in California will reach as high as 120 degrees this week, without identifying where.

In recent years media weather reporters overstate the heat – often exaggerating “extreme heat” as much hotter than the actual forecast. And when they are wrong, they never correct it or admit it.

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My weather apps have been adjusting down all week since claiming Sacramento temperatures would hit 106 by Wednesday.

Here is today’s:

Some governments have been caught taking temperature readings at ground surface which shows several degrees higher than the ambient temperature. Temperature reading is supposed to be taken 5 feet above the ground.

The Sacramento Bee reports:

“Sacramento is expected to see its first 100-degree day of the year soon, according to the latest predictions from the National Weather Service. The high temperature for Wednesday is forecast to reach 101 degrees.”

Here’s their forecast – 103 and 104 degrees midweek. OMG – Sacramento has never seen these excessive temperatures in early June… or have we?

As the Globe has reported every year, news media tries to scare people over seasonal temperatures, seasonal changes, and natural weather happenings.

Last year in June 2023, the Globe reported:

UC Berkeley/LA Times Poll Claims “Californians Fear Worsening Weather Swings Due to Climate Change.” In fact, the Los Angeles Times claims “Nearly 70% of registered voters say they expect that volatile fluctuations between severe drought and periods of heavy rain and snow — what some call weather whiplash — will become more common in the future due to climate change, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.”

It was BS in June 2023, and it is BS in June 2024.

Extreme Weather Watch reports Sacramento June Weather Records for 1877–2024 starting with the hottest Sacramento June day in recorded history was 115 degrees in 1961:

We’ve been covering dubious weather reporting for several years. Last year the Globe reported:

…the LA Times links to another climate change poll from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) from July 2022, which “found that nearly 7 in 10 Californians think the effects of climate change have already begun, and 8 in 10 say climate change is a serious threat to California’s future economy and way of life.”

The Globe covered this dubious report last August:

“A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California cleverly conflates climate change, drought, wildfires and the oil and gas industry through dextrous questions and weighted demographics.”

It was clear that the PPIC was fusing “drought, wildfires and the oil and gas industry” into one great cause: Climate Change.

“Whenever there’s a wildfire, Newsom and all the others in denial over their epic policy failures, come shouting ‘climate change,’” Ed Ring reported in 2021. “They have the audacity to tell us to turn our thermostats up to 78 degrees and refrain from using electric appliances, and they claim these fires are evidence of why this is necessary. They embark on a ‘renewables mandate’ that jacks utility prices up to the highest in the nation in exchange for unreliable power.”

“More than anything else, what Newsom and all the rest of these politicians who want California to set a ‘climate example’ to the world are in denial of is their own misanthropy. They know perfectly well that California only emits one percent of the world’s CO2. They know as well that China and India are not about to stop using fossil fuel to grow their economies. They know that fossil fuel accounts for 85 percent of global energy production, with hydroelectric and nuclear power accounting for another 11 percent. All renewables account for only four percent of global energy production. Four percent.

California’s drought conditions are actually historically normal. So are our occasional heavy wet winters. It’s not hard to plan for this – if politicians were honest. Our water projects were built and designed to provide a steady 5-7 year supply of water for the entire state, even in drought years.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom will Fiddle his Way to Rome While California Incinerates

May 7, 2024 By Katy Grimes Leave a Comment

Newsom is taking his climate change road show to the Vatican

Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking his climate change road show to the Vatican where he was invited to speak by Pope Francis at a Summit of mayors and governors. The Summit, which will be held from May 15th to May 17th, will cover “the impact of rising temperatures” in local communities, and “climate resilience.”

According to Newsom’s office, the Governor is expected to address Pope Francis and talk about the recent fires, floods, and droughts in California. The speech overall is likely to mention his numerous climate policy dates ahead, including his 2045 goal of California being 100% green power and carbon neutral, as well as his 2035 goal of the state no longer selling new gas-powered cars, the Globe reported last week.

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There are a few problems with this plan.

The first is Newsom is parroting the tiresome United Nations talking point that temperatures are rising. He does this a) because he is not a scientist; and b) because he needs a distraction from the living hell he has turned California into.

And perhaps most important, how does Gov. Newsom galavanting across the Atlantic to a Climate Change Summit at the Vatican help or benefit Californians? When polled, voters never rate Climate Change as important or even relevant in their lives, despite legacy media pushing the agenda. Voters also are savvy enough to know that there is no settled science about Climate Change, the way Newsom and the Left claims.

Let’s start with one important fact, and my favorite: Greenhouse gasses aren’t destroying the world – greenhouse gasses trap heat, making Earth habitable.

Even as important, James E. Enstrom, PhD, MPH clears up some of the governor’s climate change notions with this list of Major Facts About California Air Pollution:

1. California has record low levels of air pollution that are below the threshold of human health effects

2. Published evidence from six California epidemiologic cohorts has found that PM2.5 is NOT related to total mortality.

3. The 2019 Age-Adjusted Total Death Rates (deaths per 1000) in California are among the lowest in the US. California has the second lowest rate of any State (6.02); Los Angeles County 5.75; California Hispanics 5.23; Los Angeles County Hispanics 5.07.  All of these rates are far lower than the US rate (7.15).  More Data & References for Facts 1-3: (http://scientificintegrityinstitute.org/CARBProp012323.pdf).

4. Major risk factors for coronary heart disease are blood pressure, blood cholesterol, tobacco smoking, diabetes, family history of heart disease, obesity, age, gender, and stress. Air pollution is NOT a factor. (www.msn.com/en-us/health/condition/coronary-artery-disease/hp-coronary-artery-disease).

5. The causes of asthma are unknown. Factors known to trigger asthmatic symptoms are dust mites, animal dander, pollen, molds, cigarette smoke, certain chemicals, cold air, and sinusitis. Air pollution is NOT an established factor. (www.msn.com/en-us/health/condition/asthma/hp-asthma)

6.  Objective cost-benefit analysis of CARB air pollution regulations shows that the assumed health benefits of these regulations are less than the costs to the businesses that have been economically impacted by these regulations.

7.  California and the US as a whole have among the lowest air pollution levels in the entire world.

PM2.5 refers to atmospheric particulate matter (PM) that have a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers, which is about 3 percent the diameter of a human hair and can only be detected with an electron microscope.

I’m no more of a scientist than Gavin Newsom is, but I research credible scientists and talk with them. All of this greenhouse gas deception is based on the purely speculative future threat that global warming supposedly poses to low-income nations. It’s a wealth redistribution scheme by and though the UN, taking money from the U.S. and other Western Nations, supposedly going to Third World countries.

So, a rousing Thank You to Dr. Enstrom for these facts.

California is in a world of hurt – and not from Climate Change, or any future threat from it. California has high crime, high taxes (on everything), high housing costs, high college students (legalized pot), high college tuitions, high inflation, high outbound migration, high gas prices, high homeless population, high rate of State mandated secrecy of gender transitioning children from parents, high illegal alien population, high illegal alien population on state funded healthcare (Medi-Cal), high energy costs, high sex trafficking, high unemployment fraud, high abortion procedures (abortion.ca.gov), high public school teachers strikes, high porn in K-12 curriculum, high Water rationing… (and some say a high governor)…

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Woke Assemblyman Berman Savaged for Ludicrous Climate Change Tweet

December 10, 2023 By Katy Grimes 1 Comment

Read the room Marc

Woke lawmakers in California’s Legislature are insufferable. The virtue signaling, the platitudes, the triteness, may make them appear as if they are doing something useful. But they are not. And posting their virtue on X/Twitter makes them look even more self-serving – and a little desperate for affirming attention.

Assemblyman Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park), is a case-in-point. He posted this Tweet on X:

“What a great tour from the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District showcasing promising nature-based solutions being used on the Coast to adapt to and mitigate climate change impacts, including flooding, wildfires & water security.” @SenJoshBecker @Ray_Mueller_

He managed to cram several chestnuts into that Tweet:

  • nature-based solutions  
  • adapt to and mitigate climate change impacts
  • including flooding, wildfires & water security

Water security? California sits on the Pacific Ocean and has hundreds of lakes, rivers, creeks and waterways.

Here is a map of California’s rivers and lakes:

California’s rivers and lakes. (Photo: geology.com)

Berman was savaged – appropriately. Because he’s part of the problem working harder to restrict water use, than managing it.

Former Ambassador Ric Grenell replied:

“Hey Marc. Your party controls all of Sacramento… so why don’t we clear fallen timber? Why not support a timber industry? Why is your team not capturing the rain? Why are we always in a drought? And why are you telling us to conserve more water when we live on the ocean? And why don’t we have enough electricity and instead are told to unplug appliances?! Stop the radical knee-jerk events about climate change. Build something.”

Also addressing water use, this reply hit home:

“Too bad the water storage we voted on years ago has never built more storage. Upgrading existing is obviously not working but certainly spending the bond money voters approved.”

Another asked, “Why do you let so much water runoff into the ocean? Seems like a waste.”

This dad replied:

“Here are some ways to solve the problem. My sixth grader made the short list. 1. Increase logging to keep forests maintained. 2. Build more water storage reservoirs. 3. Increase clean natural gas production to warm homes and power generators. 4. Close the border.”

Another retweeted Grenell’s reply after telling Berman to “cut the climate crap – we’re not buying it:”

A few others expressed their frustration with the lawmaker:

“You people are so incompetent at running California – in the private sector you’d be permanently sitting on the bench.”

“so why don’t we clear fallen timber? Why not support a timber industry? Why is your team not capturing the rain? Why are we always in a drought?”

“Another commie pushing climate hoax”

“Water security? Really CA has reduced water captivity and done nothing to increase its capacity.”

“Start by showing us you’re doing something to help the problems! Earn your salary!”

“Climate change impacts? You forgot your pronouns.”

The comments devolved quickly:

“what a complete f**king moron… clueless idoits not a single one of that entire group would know how to properly mitigate wildfires… water security? f**king morons”

“What a moron you are….We live around oceans. Climate change is a Democrat hoax and finally everyone sees it…”

“Dipshit says what?”

As California Rep. Tom McClintock said in a House floor speech in 2021 titled, Producing Want from Plenty, “Fortunately, nature has given us a superabundance of resources and left it to us to responsibly reap and manage this bounty. But it is precisely these resources that the left has waged war against for a full generation. The very things that make us prosperous and comfortable are the things the left attempts to put off limits. Is it any wonder that the more they extend their domain, the worse the human conditions that they produce?”

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will sign climate-focused transparency laws for big business

September 19, 2023 By Staff Report 6 Comments

NEW YORK (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Sunday that he plans to sign into law a pair of climate-focused bills intended to force major corporations to be more transparent about greenhouse gas emissions and the financial risks stemming from global warming.

Newsom’s announcement came during an out-of-state trip to New York’s Climate Week, where world leaders in business, politics and the arts are gathered to seek solutions for climate change.

California lawmakers last week passed legislation requiring large businesses from oil and gas companies to retail giants to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as those that come from activities like employee business travel.

Such disclosures are a “simple but intensely powerful driver of decarbonization,” said the bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat.

“This legislation will support those companies doing their part to tackle the climate crisis and create accountability for those that aren’t,” Wiener said in a statement Sunday applauding Newsom’s decision.

Under the law, thousands of public and private businesses that operate in California and make more than $1 billion annually will have to make the emissions disclosures. The goal is to increase transparency and nudge companies to evaluate how they can cut their carbon emissions.

The second bill approved last week by the state Assembly requires companies making more than $500 million annually to disclose what financial risks climate change poses to their businesses and how they plan to address those risks.

State Sen. Henry Stern, a Democrat from Los Angeles who introduced the legislation, said the information would be useful for individuals and lawmakers when making public and private investment decisions. The bill was changed recently to require companies to begin reporting the information in 2026, instead of 2024, and mandate that they report every other year, instead of annually.

Newsom, a Democrat, said he wants California to lead the nation in addressing the climate crisis. “We need to exercise not just our formal authority, but we need to share our moral authority more abundantly,” he said.

Newsom’s office announced Saturday that California has filed a lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels now faulted for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage.

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