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The Politics of Aspiration
3.20.2010 9:00:00 AM

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Sense of Proportion
By: Thomas Tanton
2.6.2010

In a Capitol Weekly article this week State Senator Fran Pavley attempted to defend AB 32, her colossal 2006 environmental legislation with the goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately Pavley’s intent has been very different than the outcome for the people of California.
green jobs, venture capital, AB32, global warming


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The Rest of The Story
By: Thomas Tanton
1.17.2010

Steve Maviglio touts economic benefits of AB32 and asserts polls show strong support for the economy crippling regulations coming out of the California Air Resources Board. It's good that he's now out of the isolation chamber of Sacramento politics, and may begin to hear common folks' concerns. He claims that global praise for the Governor regarding climate action and strong support from Californians, 66 percent support the law in the last PPIC poll, are devastating harbingers for efforts underway to rationalize the law. That poll was conducted last summer, before the recession's persistence drove thousands more to lose their jobs and their homes to foreclosure.
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Same Old Water Policy Won’t Get the Job Done for California
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 3.16.2010

The drought has also taken its toll on the politics of water in California, which have become increasingly contentious.
Report Card for the IPCC
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 2.16.2010

The nation's capital has been slammed with storms this winter, and so has the climate-change debate.

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In Denial
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 3.12.2010

It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago—changed the narrative decisively.
A Changing Political Climate on Climate Change
By: Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D on 2.24.2010

Despite intense, sometimes contentious negotiations, the likelihood of a binding deal on global carbon emissions appears remote.

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