All in all, I respect Ahhhnold for being environmentally responsible and respective. However, Ahhhnold, along with the California legislature, is making a play that could destroy, or at least seriously diminish, California's economy
California is forging ahead with the most aggressive U.S. program to reduce global warming — a plan that pits Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger against fellow Republican George W. Bush.
Both the governor and his state's Democratic-led legislature want to make California — the world's eighth largest economy — a model to follow with caps in greenhouse gas emissions that the U.S. president rejects.
State politicians still are hammering out differences over the proposed Global Warming Solutions Act. If passed, it is likely to play a role in November's vote for governor and in national politics for years to come.
Schwarzenegger — branded "very green for a Republican" by the conservation group Sierra Club — became an overnight hero for environmentalists a year ago by setting a goal to cut California's emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
Meanwhile, what is missing is details. What wil the Global Warming Soultions Act actually do? If it is modeled on the Kyoto Protocol, it will include draconian measures which will harm business, and do nothing to deal with the real causes of global warming: the Sun and natural Earth processes. Not that anything can really be done about those two.
And, when push comes to shove, the GWSA will be a failure, much like Kyoto, a treaty in which most members aren't even close to being in compliance with, regarding reduction of CO2 levels. But the damage to California's economy will be done.
The California Chamber of Commerce and business groups say the global warming bill is bad for the economy because it will drive up energy prices and send companies running to less regulated places — similar arguments used by Bush to pull out of the 160-nation Kyoto Protocol to reduce global warming.
First, it is not a good idea to upset Chambers of Commerce, especially the state level one.
Second, Mary Millikin, the story author, repeats a bold faced lie from the Leftists. President Bush never signed Kyoto, Nor did President Clinton. The Senate voted 95-0 against Kyoto during Clinton's presidency. Clinton understood it was a dud, and refused to call the press for a Rose Garden signing. Gore symbolically signed it, but that has the same force of law as Gore announcing he is the Emporer of the Moon.
So, Ms Millikin either did not do her job in researching the story in full, has an agenda, and/or lied on purpose. Al-Reuters apparently still thinks it can get away with faking the news.
