The climate change news for this week is generally depressing because there is more evidence of the enormity of impacts that are not being addressed. President Obama and Congress are being held hostage by a minority of GOP teabagging deniers determined to prevent comprehensive climate change legislation.
However, there is also much hope. President Obama has worked on measures that don't need Congressional OK and measures not dependent upon climate science. I have discussed with friends how it really is irrelevant if someone is a denier or not because the measures that address climate change impacts also address crisis issues whose existence and validity is not dependent on climate science. Gov. Schwarzenegger brings it all together in a nice package as a good starting point.
Gov. Schwarzenegger's plan defeats the teabaggers because it is not dependent upon believing in climate change science but recognizing obvious related public crises: Energy independence or national security, economic crisis, public health and energy conservation and efficiency. While I did not vote for Schwarzenegger, California does have a climate change law that Attorney General Jerry Brown has been implementing for years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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