Posted on 12/23/2017 7:54:11 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Loath to let a natural disaster go to political waste, the California Air Resources Board used the fires to promote a new climate-change “scoping plan” aimed at doubling the rate at which it cuts carbon emissions. The irony is that the emissions from wildfires could negate all of the state’s anticarbon policies.
A 2007 study in the journal Carbon Balance and Management found that California’s wildfires in 2003, which burned more than 750,000 acres, produced the monthly carbon equivalent of about half of the state’s fossil-fuel burning sources. Ditto the state’s September 2006 wildfires. On average the state’s annual emissions from wildfires equal about 6% of those from fossil fuels.
By comparison, California’s cap-and-trade program, low-carbon fuel standard, energy efficiency and renewable mandates resulted in a 0.3% decline in carbon emissions in 2015. In other words, California’s climate acts of penance will likely be overwhelmed by this year’s fires. They also won’t reduce global emissions or prevent a single fire.
In 2011 Democrats imposed a “fire prevention” fee on rural homeowners, but the money instead went to backfill the budget. They suspended the fee this summer only in return for GOP votes to extend cap and trade, which they promised would help pay for fire prevention. Yet Gov. Brown has proposed spending a mere $200 million of this year’s projected $2.4 billion cap-and-trade revenues on fire prevention. Most would go to high-speed rail, public housing and transit and electric-car subsidies.
Californians would be better served if the state prioritized resources on clearing deadwood and retrofitting homes in high-risk zones with fire-resistant roofs and vents. Neither electric cars nor a bullet train will save people from a pyrrhic perdition.
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That takes a certain type of skill. They would make wonderful gypsies or carnies.
Prioritized resources on clearing deadwood duh ya think it’s a wonder Tahoe hasn’t went up in smoke yet the state in infested with dead wood use prisoners to clean it up it’s not like they are doing anything.
The state of california should be sued for allowing all those emissions to leak past their borders and pollute saner states.
/s (sorta)
http://www.paywallnews.com/ for the full article.
Central planners having a field day. Failing as usual. And building monuments to themselves, paid for by producer’s grandkids.
Central planners love them some choochoo trains, don’t they? Their visions see joyful comrades discussing progressivism while riding the 6 hour train to work. And thanking them for the marvelous choochoo.
Ho Lee Shoote.
We had record snowfall and had no reservoirs, due to a stupid tiny fish, we sent all that water out to sea.
This state is run by cracks of butt.
What will they do when Mt. Shasta erupts again....it might happen at any time.
Trails to the top of the mountain were shut off years ago because the mountain was “Venting”.
Jerry Brown is the official California Nut.
California Air Resources Board
More disastrous than any wildfire.
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