Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee invoked former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in announcing a legislation aimed at fighting global warming.
“There is no other option than victory, because without victory, there is no survival,” Inslee said at a press conference Monday. “If that sounds apocalyptic, then look at the science.”
Churchill gave similar remarks before the British Parliament in May 1940 in the early days of World War II. Inslee and his allies cited the recent National Climate Assessment to back equating future global warming to Nazi Germany sweeping across Europe.
Inslee, who is a 2020 presidential contender, is styling himself as a leader for Democrats agitating for action on global warming.
Inslee is considering making global warming a central theme of his campaign should he seek the Democratic nomination in 2020.
Inslee’s legislative pitch comes weeks after Washington voters rejected a ballot initiative to tax carbon dioxide emissions. The Inslee-backed measure was defeated in an overwhelmingly Democratic state in November.
Now, Inslee’s back with an even more urgent message: Adopt policies to tackle global warming or “there is no survival.”
Inslee’s legislative proposal would force utilities to use 100 percent clean energy, mandate more energy efficiency in buildings, require a “clean fuel standard” and phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in refrigerators and air conditioners.
Those policies would cut Washington state greenhouse gases 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2035, according to Inslee.
“Washingtonians are ready to see their elected leaders step up to prevent further harm to our forests, our air, and our communities. These are enormous steps forward in our effort to save our state and our planet,” Inslee said.
Washington already gets most of its electricity from “clean energy,” being the largest state producer of hydroelectricity.
The state also has existing laws mandating 15 percent of its electricity come from renewables, like wind and solar.
However, Inslee’s critics point out that state green policies have raised energy prices, including in Seattle where electricity prices have doubled since 2013.
“Costs have nearly doubled since 2013,” Todd Myers, environmental director at the Washington Policy Center, tweeted Monday.
In response to question about cost, @GovInslee says this will avoid costs. Here is the trend in base rates at Seattle City Light as they moved to 100% renewable. Costs have nearly doubled since 2013. #waleg pic.twitter.com/0hN3uDSV9B
— Todd Myers 🐟🌲🐝 (@WAPolicyGreen) December 10, 2018
Inslee also neglected to mention the most important aspect of climate policies — their projected impact on future global warming.
That’s probably because anything Washington state does will have no measurable impact on projected climate change.
The governor also used alarming rhetoric when announcing carbon tax legislation earlier this year.
“We have just 59 days to do our part to save our children from an endless cycle of crop-killing droughts one year, and rivers spilling their banks the next,” Inslee tweeted in January.
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Progressives have sanctioned the replacement of capitalism with socialism. Inslee is a demagogue with a messiah complex who lauds the power of the state over the will of the people. None of these climate fools are willing to put a dollar per 1/1000 degree Celsius improvement in “global temperature”. It’s a monumental waste of taxpayer funds. If Inslee wants to steal money from his citizens let him try it the old fashioned way embezzlement, graft and traditional corruption. At least he could be convicted and jailed for those crimes.
The brain-washing of the masses is spreading in my estimation. So many reports in the news and public press make statements about one condition or situation after another, all of them having some relation to human-caused global warming, as if it is established fact. Of course, global warming is not a fact. Instead, it is a shrill warning by the fear-mongers who know that time is on their side. If they just keep on sounding the alarm, eventually the majority of the population will begin to accept that it must be true, lacking the energy to figure out that it’s all just a big of rubbish. I think we have reached the point where only the passage of decades can prove that global warming is a hoax, but the cost of prevention and correction will break us in the meantime.
You’re underestimating the cynicism of yer average bloke.
Trump has offered prosperity instead of ” hope and change”
It’s working and the whole world’s watching, with envy.
The Socialist’s current shrillness is a response to revival of the capitalist spirit.
I hear a sound from the State of Washington but all i can hear is a lot of mindless braying from the Head Jackass Inslee