I love the religious analogy. Unfortunately the virgin has lost interest. Perhaps the first visible evidence of big trouble. The Catholics should have thought of indulgence trading! Big money in that it appears. The spending list is hilarious. Where’d they spend all the fire money? I’d bet on fire equity non profits and consultants. Who really needs working fire hydrants?
Thank you for this: getting to run through $5 billion in a year looks like nice legislative work if you can get it. I think Margaret Thatcher and Thomas Sowell would have hit it off (I’m not aware they ever met): “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money".
California has outsourced its accountability by shifting the burden of emissions onto industry, creating a tangled web of environmental policy that kicks the can down the road. But the true costs are far more direct—and far more dangerous. Wildfires, fueled by an ever-warming climate, now produce global climate impacts of their own. When vegetation burns, it releases carbon dioxide, and California’s fires have become a major player in this destructive cycle.
This past year, California’s fires emitted twice as much CO2 as the same period the previous year, and far more than any other summer in nearly two decades. According to the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service, a European Union-backed organization that tracks emissions via satellite data, the scale of the problem is staggering. California’s fires released more than 75 million metric tons of carbon dioxide—further exacerbating the very "climate" issues the state claims to be solving.
In shifting emissions to industry, California has created a system where the fires, and their global impact, are not just a local crisis—they're a symptom of a deeper failure to address the root causes of climate change. The irony is hard to ignore: in seeking to control emissions, California has unleashed a far greater disaster on the world stage.
And now with the recent fires in and around LA, let's not mention the amount of CO2 released in the atmosphere from the ridiculous policies of these morons. Like seven-year-old children, these fools have made policy based on make-believe. It's time to bill the Democrat and Depublican super-majority for their "leadership", and drive them back to their daycare centers.
I love the religious analogy. Unfortunately the virgin has lost interest. Perhaps the first visible evidence of big trouble. The Catholics should have thought of indulgence trading! Big money in that it appears. The spending list is hilarious. Where’d they spend all the fire money? I’d bet on fire equity non profits and consultants. Who really needs working fire hydrants?
It's a tax, what's not for a government to love? 🤷
Yes, If it doesn't work, just charge more.
Thank you for this: getting to run through $5 billion in a year looks like nice legislative work if you can get it. I think Margaret Thatcher and Thomas Sowell would have hit it off (I’m not aware they ever met): “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money".
Please define the perfect climate these people are trying to achieve, what is the criteria and in which epoch did it occur…
California has outsourced its accountability by shifting the burden of emissions onto industry, creating a tangled web of environmental policy that kicks the can down the road. But the true costs are far more direct—and far more dangerous. Wildfires, fueled by an ever-warming climate, now produce global climate impacts of their own. When vegetation burns, it releases carbon dioxide, and California’s fires have become a major player in this destructive cycle.
This past year, California’s fires emitted twice as much CO2 as the same period the previous year, and far more than any other summer in nearly two decades. According to the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service, a European Union-backed organization that tracks emissions via satellite data, the scale of the problem is staggering. California’s fires released more than 75 million metric tons of carbon dioxide—further exacerbating the very "climate" issues the state claims to be solving.
In shifting emissions to industry, California has created a system where the fires, and their global impact, are not just a local crisis—they're a symptom of a deeper failure to address the root causes of climate change. The irony is hard to ignore: in seeking to control emissions, California has unleashed a far greater disaster on the world stage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/climate/wildfire-emissions-climate-change.html
great piece! California grift is next level.
And now with the recent fires in and around LA, let's not mention the amount of CO2 released in the atmosphere from the ridiculous policies of these morons. Like seven-year-old children, these fools have made policy based on make-believe. It's time to bill the Democrat and Depublican super-majority for their "leadership", and drive them back to their daycare centers.