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[Stateline.org RSS - California] Jerry Brown calls state's global warming law the key difference ...: Calling the issue the defining difference between himself and Republican Meg Whitman in the governor's race, Democrat Jerry Brown gave an impassioned defense Thursday of California's landmark global warming law. In a wide-ranging interview with Bay .

[Greenspace] Global warming: battle over California ballot initiative heats up ...: Backers of the proposition noted that investment firms which back solar and wind energy start-ups will benefit financially from the law -- and thus have an incentive to oppose the proposition. California has raised more capital for renewable energy firms than any state in the nation, in part due to its aggressive push under AB 32 to replace carbon-dioxide intensive industries such as refineries and power plants with renewable energy.

[Climate Progress] Energy and Global Warming News for July 28: Wind drives growing ...: “Do we want California to continue moving forward as a leader in a clean energy economy, including continuing to create new jobs, new economic development and new investment, or do we want to allow two Texas-based oil companies ”¦ to take our state backward and see the clean energy jobs, business and investment in our state go offshore to (a) place like China?”

[Calbuzz] PPIC: Voters Oppose Offshore Oil & AB 32 Rollback « Calbuzz: She has positioned herself on the far right on a host of issues, including her call for expanded drilling off the coast of California, and her support for Proposition 23, coupled with her mocking of Boxer’s oft-expressed concern about climate change (Fiorina calls it a fixation on the weather) and her questioning of the science of global warming.

[Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report] Poll: Prop. 23 losing big time « Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills ...: Instead of fighting over the cause of global warming, which is just a sham argument to be fighting FOR the corporate interests that profit by denying global warming, we should be agreeing on adaptation measures we can implement that simultaneously grow jobs, the economy, American energy independence, improve the environment and save people real money.

[Fog City Journal] Carly Fiorina: A Global Warming Denier | Fog City Journal: There is no quick fix for global warming and by doing nothing we risk great harm to our planet and its inhabitants.  It has long been known that humans impact our atmosphere severely and our unrelenting production of carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) increase the effects of the naturally occurring “greenhouse effect” that keeps our planet habitable.

[The Daily Bayonet] Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, July 29 2010 « The Daily Bayonet: The concepts underlying Al Gore’s tyrannical smears are like the Ptolemaic astronomy, which could not have been saved by positing more epicycles or eliminating some of the more glaring discrepancies. The fundamental idea””that the heavens revolve around the Earth””was wrong, just as Gore’s idea that his maneuvers enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness is wrong.

[International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed] Let California Lead the Way with AB 1404 | International Rivers: Requires CARB to prioritize the use of offsets that provide air quality benefits to communities already suffering from disproportionate levels of air pollution, particularly focusing on the air basin in which the offset purchaser resides, and that provide environmental and public health benefits to the state of California.

[Cynthia Tucker] Global warming makes heat waves the new normal | Cynthia Tucker: [...] Global warming makes heat waves the new normalAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)used the blizzards that blanketed the city last winter to claim global warming is a hoax, Republicans just ignored the summer heat wave ”” preferring to …Casualties mount in the War on Global WarmingCalifornia Independent Voter NetworkCap-And-Trade Advocates See Tougher Battle After ElectionsNew York TimesClimate Bill Chokes in the SenatePolitic365 (blog)Winnipeg Free Press -Boston Globe -Treehuggerall 15 news articles » [...]

[Untitled] Ohio coal company that backed Fiorina also gave to Prop. 23 ...: By association, Fiorina has aligned herself with the global warming deniers joining that eminent scientist Sarah Palin -- one of her endorsers -- who called global warming studies "snake oil science." By using her prominent position as a Republican Senatorial candidate, she helps feed the public's skepticism over global warming, which in turn provides cover for our politicians to avoid the difficult task of addressing global warming. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 40% of likely U.S. voters now say global warming is caused primarily by human activity, while slightly more (44%) say long term planetary trends are to blame.

[KQED's Climate Watch] Poll Shows Support for Climate Law | KQED's Climate Watch: In this month's survey, PPIC found that nearly three in four Californians (73%) consider "global warming" to be either a "serious" (29%) or "very serious" (44%) threat to "the economy and quality of life for California's future," though opinion was divided along party lines, with Republicans less convinced. Sixty percent of all adults surveyed think that the effects of global warming have started (54%) or will be seen within the next "few years" (6%).

[David Hone] David Hone - Climate Change Advisor for Shell » Blog Archive ...: Now is the time to work together to develop key AB 32 regulations, such as a cap and trade system.  We need regulations that help us transition to a low carbon future in a cost effective manner but balanced against economic needs.  Much can be accomplished by including adequate transition periods to prevent unnecessary economic disruption or short term costs and to address potential interactions with US Federal requirements.  Compliance related preparation and investment is already underway or in the pipeline and the design of AB 32 regulation may well serve as a useful template for the nation as a whole. The passage of Proposition 23 could result in a new and expensive regulatory pathway for business, with the loss of opportunity that the market based approach taken by ARB offers.

[Wonk Room] Wonk Room » REPORT: The Politician Behind The Campaign To Repeal ...: Logue told us that the Wall Street Journal had encouraged him to push his AB 32 repeal initiative in order to derail national efforts to address climate change. Ironically, the Wonk Room ran into the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund a week after speaking to Logue.

[The Gaia Resource] Proposition 23: Texas Oil Giants Invest Heavily To Repeal ...: Proposition 23: Texas Oil Giants Invest Heavily To Repeal California Global … Huffington Post (blog) The proposition would suspend California's Assembly Ballot 32 (AB 32), otherwise known as the Global Warming Solutions Act, which was signed by Gov.

[Climate Change and Clean Technology Blog] Update on Initiative to Suspend California's Global Warming Bill ...: State Attorney General Jerry Brown deemed it misleading and required the official ballot title to be a description of what the initiative would do: "Suspends Air Pollution Control Laws Requiring Major Polluters to Report and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions That Cause Global Warming Until Unemployment Drops Below Specified Level for Full Year."

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