My Aunt used to say that Californians are a bunch of kooks. I used to dismiss her. Turns out she was quite prescient...
OC Register (3/21/24) editorial board: "A new analysis on reaching California’s ambitious climate goals actually highlights the state’s numerous contradictions. For example, more housing construction is needed to reduce the homelessness and housing crises. But that means producing more concrete, a cause of greenhouse gasses. And the mandate for 100% zero-emission vehicles by 2035 means creating more electricity, despite the state’s continued reliance on natural-gas power plants. The analysis is the 2023 California Green Innovation Index, produced by Beacon Economics of Los Angeles and Next 10, a think tank based in San Francisco. It found greenhouse gas emissions from transportation dropped 8.8% in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We all remember when the highways were empty during the lockdowns. Then the emissions rebounded by 3.4% in 2021 and produced 381.3 million metric tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent...However, the key is the study’s 2020 International Scorecards. They show China produced nearly 10,842 million metric tons of CO2. That’s 36 times California’ 303.4 million tons that year. The top 10 countries produced 25,542 tons, 84 times California’s number. California’s goal is to cut CO2 to 86 million tons a year by 2050. But even if that were met, it would have almost no effect on the global climate because other countries are not working toward similar goals."
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"Supposedly, there is a big energy transition going on. Throughout the West, countries have made ambitious pledges to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions by specific percentages and by specific dates. Many such pledges were notably made in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2016. Some countries — for example, the U.S. and UK — have even gone beyond the Paris Agreement and made still more ambitious pledges in the years since then. But is any of it real? No, none of it is real. The failure to make the progress that would be necessary to achieve the alleged pledges and mandates is obvious and easily tracked. But a code of silence has enveloped the progressive media, commanding that no one is allowed to notice."
–Francis Menton, The Manhattan Contrarian
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