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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