It’s your comments that are stupid. The point of Lambros argument is that unless everyone participates in the same tax and regulatory scheme those entities that tax and regulate more will incur a competitive disadvantage. This is pretty standard economic reasoning which you seem pathetically oblivious to.

Your claim that our quality of life is adversely affected by how much carbon dioxide we emit is scientifically dubious and the New York Slimes article even implies this. There hasn’t been any “global warming” in over 15 years, even though carbon emissions have increased dramatically in that time. Aren’t you at least curious as to how that could be? Even climate scientists who believe the AGW theory admit that they are puzzled by the lack of accuracy in their models over the last decade and a half. They apparently don’t share your religious conviction on the matter.

Surely you must be at least a tad embarrassed that the great guru of global warming, Albert Gore Jr. is a failed presidential candidate who flunked out of divinity school and got lower SAT scores that George W. Bush. And lets not forget Al Gores 70 million dollar windfall profit from selling Current TV to one of the biggest oil producers in the world. Do you really believe that Al and Jerry and Arnold and Barack and all of their billionaire oligarch friends are cutting back on their personal CO2 emissions to save Mommy Earth from a fate worse than death? FAT CHANCE SUCKER!

“Californians should be proud, just like Germany, the Netherlands, France”

Playing monkey see, monkey do with the likes of those countries is nothing to be proud of. If you want to do something personal to limit carbon emissions then perhaps you could try exhaling less often. Or living like a stone age tribesman. And stay away from beans, cucumbers and cruciferous veggies because methane and hydrogen sulfide are potent greenhouse gases.

I guess some people would rather stand on their soap box and rail sanctimoniously about the ultra scary global cooling/global warming/climate change/climate instability bogeyman than exercise a healthy dose of skepticism.

And AB 32, whatever you think of it, was passed seven years ago, a long time in policy terms. Arnold was governor, the real estate market was setting records, Calif. unemployment was 4.5 percent, the fracking (clean-burning natural gas) boom had not yet started. And AB 32, as the article notes, has inspired precisely no state or country to take similar actions, even though the text of the bill said it was supposed to do that.

So wouldn’t even a little mid-course correction be in order? Apparently not.

Thanks for confirming that AB 32 now just about perpetuating the government bureaucracy.

— John Seiler