This year, climate activists have been on the defensive. The climate bill died in the Senate. Senator Lisa Murkowski's (R-Baked Alaska) effort to roll back the Clean Air Act came close to passing the Senate. Politicians both Blue Dog and red complained that jobs were more important than climate. In this environment, California's Proposition 23 -- an initiative to suspend the state's global warming law until unemployment reaches 5.5% for a year -- seemed like a slam-dunk.
But a funny thing happened. Californians are more bothered by the ideas that Proposition 23's funding is 97% from oil companies and 89% out of state, and that it'll destroy our clean air, than they are by the myth -- and it is a myth -- of Proposition 23 saving jobs to be killed by the global warming law.
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