California Gov. Brown’s ‘Climate Resistance’ Will Devastate The Once-Golden State

Give California Gov. Jerry Brown his due — once wedded to a bad idea, he never lets go. That’s why he’s just outlawed fossil fuels in the Golden State. He’d like to do the same to you. Today California, tomorrow the world.

To prove his climate change fighting bona fides, Brown is holding a three-day conference, a kind of pep-rally of sorts, to show support for the Paris Climate Accords, which President Trump backed out of earlier this year.

As the Washington Examiner succinctly described the gathering, “The massive three-day bash hosted by Mr. Brown will feature top Democrats, liberal megadonors, Obama administration figures, international leaders, green energy, Silicon Valley, Hollywood celebrities, and Al Gore.”

Of course, all of the “Hollywood celebrities” and Al Gore will be flying in on private jets, as will certainly the “Obama administration figures” and “liberal megadonors.”

But hey, climate change sacrifices aren’t for the liberal rich and leftists politicians; it’s for the little people, the very ones that Hillary Clinton called the “deplorables.”

They’ll Always Have Paris

“We’re running out of time,” said Brown. “There’s been some backsliding since Paris, and our Summit … aims to increase the commitments that have already been made in Paris, to make them even greater, and thereby build the momentum going into the (UN) conference of the parties in Poland.”

When Brown says “we’re” running out of time he really means “I”. Brown’s fourth term as governor ends in January, and the aging radical won’t have a job. Is he angling to be a long-shot presidential candidate? Or maybe EPA chief in a Bernie Sanders administration? Or the U.N.’s climate change guru? It’s hard to tell.

Just this week, he signed into law one of the most radical pieces of climate legislation ever. Dubbed SB 100, it commits California to produce all of its electricity from alternative sources by 2040. If it should happen, it will only happen because of a major scientific advance — not because Brown signed a pie-in-the-sky bill into law.

Anyway, that bill was a bit of stage-managing for Brown as his conference got underway in San Francisco, the famous City by the Bay. Once known for its stunning urban setting, San Franciso is now better known for featuring human feces and used drug syringes on virtually every downtown street.

Lest you laugh it off as just another crazy Gov. Moonbeam stunt, understand that he has designs on doing something just as drastic to you. Even if you don’t live in the formerly Golden State. And if you agree to it, you’ll get what you deserve.

Brown’s Green Agenda

That’s because Brown is part of the extreme green far-left that wants to tax everything, including carbon, and ultimately to prohibit fossil fuels entirely. He’s turned it into a movement: the Climate Resistance. The only result of these policies will be soaring energy costs, rising poverty and lower standards of living for all. Green comes at a price.

California is already losing population, thanks to its increasingly insane laws that have made California the most economically polarized state in the union. The state is home to a third of all U.S. welfare recipients, but also has more billionaires than any other state. A net 140,000 per year are departing for other states, half of them are middle class or higher, and the majority of them are of child-bearing age.

No state or nation stays economically healthy when its people start leaving in droves. When people leave, businesses are likely to follow. Say goodbye to California’s future.

Brown and the law’s supporters brag that “more than 20 countries and at least 40 cities, states and provinces planning to go carbon neutral by mid-century or sooner.” He’s planning on lots of states and cities around the country adopting his ideas.

Gov. Brown And ‘Climate Resistance’

Sorry to disappoint, but Brown and the other members of the Climate Resistance likely haven’t read a surprising, just-released report from the U.S. Energy Information. It’s their worst nightmare.

The EIA reports that this year the U.S. likely surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s No. 1 producer of oil. Will oil-producing states, now raking in billions from surging oil revenues, sign on to Brown’s climate-driven economic lunacy?

Will those who are making six-figure incomes in the nation’s oil fields embrace Brown’s carbon penury? Don’t count on it.

Even as Gov. Brown revved up his far-left climatistas in San Francisco, a far more serious meeting of U.N. climate bureaucrats was taking place in faraway Bangkok. Unlike the San Francisco conference’s party atmosphere, in Bangkok, a sense of near-panic has gripped attendees.

You see, under the Paris Climate Agreement, rich Western nations are supposed to fork over $100 billion for “climate reparations” to poor countries.

Unfortunately, Trump ruined that by pulling the U.S. out of the economy-destroying Paris deal. This shatters the U.N.’s dreams of forking over massive amounts of cash to nondemocratic, often repressive regimes in the name of “climate justice.” Now that the U.S. has said no, others are getting cold feet.

“Developed countries are going back on their word and refusing to agree to clear rules governing climate finance,” Harjeet Singh, the top climate change official for ActionAid told the global news service Agence France Press. “If they remain stuck in their positions and fail to loosen their purses, this treaty may collapse.”

No doubt, it will collapse.

Paris Deal’s Collapse

As climatologist Roy Spencer recently wrote, “the Paris Agreement, even if extended through the end of the 21st Century, will have no measurable effect on global temperatures because the governments of the world realize humanity will depend upon fossil fuels for decades to come.”

Sane leaders understand this. So even while they placate the climate extremists within their own countries and send earnest climate “delegates” to meetings like the one in Bangkok, they know it will ultimately fall apart.

Meanwhile, climate charlatans like California’s Brown will continue to use scare tactics, blaming every blip in temperature, every storm, every wildfire on “global warming.” And he’ll propose dragging our economy back into the stone age to reduce expected global warming by mere tenths of a percentage point over the coming century.

California has become a one-party state run by extremists. The rest of America would be wise to stay away from their crazy ideas.

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