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The basic premise of AB32 fails a grade-school math test
By: Kelly Gorton
11.2.2010
According to T.J. Rodgers, the founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. "I know firsthand about green jobs. SunPower Corp., a company I chair and the second-largest U.S. producer of solar cells, has produced about 800 green jobs in California. But that's just a fraction of the 4,700 jobs lost when Toyota pulled the plug on its local Nummi automotive plant due to the high cost of doing business in California."
Prop 23, AB32, SunPower, Cypress Semiconductor, California, energy, environment, unemployment, emissions, election
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California’s Green Economy Failure
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D
10.19.2010
In order to satisfy the admonition that “California has to be a leader” — a rationale shallow even by the standards of political sloganeering — the Golden State enacted in 2006 the Global Warming Solutions Act (“AB32”), mandating a reduction in purported greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
California, Green, Economy, Failure
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Major Study shows Prop 23 will save thousands of jobs
By: Calvin Young
10.8.2010
Respected economist Ben Zycher recently completed this study for the Pacific Research Institute. It shows the massive numbers of jobs we stand to gain if Proposition 23 passes in November, or how many we stand to lose if it doesn't.
Study, Prop, 23, save, jobs
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California’s Prop 23: Job Saver
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D
10.5.2010
The California electorate next month will vote on Proposition 23, which would suspend the implementation of the state’s global warming (i.e., energy taxation) law (“AB32″) until the unemployment rate reaches 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters.
California, Prop, 23, Job, Saver, Gore
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Dump the UN? The Climate Campaign’s Moment of Truth
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
12.21.2009
Newsweek's science reporter Sharon Begley says it is time to dump the UN's climate circus:
The best chance of reining in emissions of greenhouse gases and avoiding dangerous climate change is to stamp a big green R.I.P. over the sprawling United Nations process that the Copenhagen talks were part of.
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Must... Stop... Reading... Blogs... on... ClimateGate
By: Carol Aregger
11.27.2009
OK I really need to get back to my paying jobs... But here are two more ClimateGate posts to throw into the mix. (Both links come from ClimateDepot, which admittedly is the Drudge Report of global warming skepticism.)
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Clunker Cash and Me
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D
8.4.2009
Let’s face it: After 17 years and 232,522 miles of faithful service, my Jeep’s best days were long past. Time for some new wheels — but money’s a bit tight these days, for me as for so many others.
But, as good fortune would have it, not for the federal government: They’re willing to pay me $4,500 — $4,500! — to turn that clunker in for a new car satisfying the combined demands of political correctitude and the auto-dealer lobby. Alas, the rules specify that the big, powerful, safe truck that I want does not qualify.
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Climate Economics 101 and Policy Activism
By: Carol Aregger
7.21.2009
In this month’s article at EconLib, I provide an introduction to the economics of climate change, and discuss some of its major controversies. Follow the above link for the full story, but in a nutshell here are the main issues:
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Just What is the Message?
By: Thomas Tanton
2.2.2009
The California State Lands Commission has rejected a proposal that could have led to the first new oil drilling project off the California coast in 40 years. The panel, January 29th, voted 2-1 against Plains Exploration & Production Co.'s request for approval of its bid to expand drilling off Platform Irene in the Santa Barbara Channel. Commission Executive Officer Paul Thayer said the project is effectively dead unless the oil company takes it to court or reapplies to the commission with a new proposal. The proposal, which would have been worth billions of dollars, was announced last year with a landmark alliance between longtime anti-oil environmentalists and the oil company.
offshore drilling
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Climate Change Captives?
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
2.1.2008
The AP reports that, "Global warming issues took over lecture halls in colleges across the country Thursday, with more than 1,500 universities participating in what was billed as the nation's largest-ever "teach-in."
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