Climate Capping and Trading

Yesterday's "adoption" in Sacramento is a good reason to remind you of our Climate thread on the Voice.  From the Daily Journal piece we learn

California formally adopted the nation’s most comprehensive so-called “cap-and-trade” system Thursday, an experiment by the world’s eighth-largest economy that is designed to provide financial incentives for polluters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

and the reaction was

Some businesses regulated under the program argue it will increase the price of electricity for consumers and hurt job creation by raising the cost of doing business in the state. But the program’s supporters expect cap-and-trade to spur economic recovery and innovation, by pushing business to invest in clean technologies.

While implementation of some parts of the program will begin in 2012, compliance for power plants and other of the worst polluting facilities actually starts in 2013, with others joining in 2015. In total, the plan will cover 85 percent of California’s emissions.

Yet the main issue is never actually addressed.  From a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal last week by Donald K. Forbes of the Virginia Scientists & Engineers for Energy & Environment, he notes that global temperatures

"for the period 1981-2010, as measured by NASA and Remote Sensing satellites, shows average global temperature departures varying from a low of minus 0.2C in 1985 to a high of plus 0.2C in 2005, with temperature departures plateaued to slightly cooling since 2005.  Moreover, that history is significantly influenced by warming and cooling spikes from natural phenomena, such as volcanic eruptions (cooling), short-term warming and cooling from ocean oscillations El Nino and La Nina."

Recall that this inconvenient data was exactly what the IPCC "scientists" were trying to hide by deleting e-mails and refusing peer review on their "research".  The hockey stick doesn't exist.  With today's announcement that California's unemployment rate dropped .2% to 11.9%, one has to wonder if Sacramento is focussed on the right things?

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Comments

[Alan in Burlingame]

Wow. Climate-change deniers -- in Burlingame. I've only been reading "The Voice" for a few months, but have suspected it was run to promote business interests rather than to provide a source of good local information. Now that suspicion is confirmed. Good bye.

[holyroller]

Wow,
What a ridiculous posting.
Why in the world are the censor/editors of the Burlingame Blog putting this forward?
How about the labor/management employment negotiations going on now regarding City of Burlingame employees?
Oh, wait a minute...
Gahdafii-President of Libya, was overthrown.
Burlingame cares.

[Anne]

Holy, take your meds.

[holyroller]

There you are..
It is good to feel the love once again.

[Gotham City]

Looks like Alan won't be reading the Examiner either

http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/10/bureaucrats-dont-mind-jobs-leakage

I'll leave the name-calling to Alan. He seems good at it.

[Murchison Johnson IV]

Calif. tax climate 2nd worst in U.S.

The nonprofit Tax Foundation, started in 1937, aims to educate Americans about government finance. It advocates tax policy that is simple, transparent, neutral (not favoring some industries over others), stable and not retroactive.

The top 10 states:
1.South Dakota
2.Alaska
3.Wyoming
4.Nevada
5.Florida
6.Montana
7.New Hampshire
8.Delaware
9.Utah
10.Indiana
The bottom 10 states:

The States policies has done more to starve innocent Californians and destroy the middle-class who can no longer afford to eat let alone breathe the air.
50. New York
49. California
48. New Jersey
47. Connecticut
46. Ohio
45. Iowa
44. Maryland
43. Minnesota
42. Rhode Island
41. North Carolina

[Lamont Relish]

More about pensions;

http://goo.gl/ZTLGm

[Lamont Relish]

webmaster,

When I log in through facebook and I don't get the CAPTCHA before posting and apparently the posts do not get on to the voice. Is there a problem?

[Editor]

We're not sure, but keep posting and we'll try to trace it to figure it out. Just don't post anything about mortgage rates or ladies shoes! :-)