Global Warming or Climate Change

TOM JOHNSON  | JULY 11, 2014 Report identifies transportation sector as largest source of carbon pollution, responsible for 42% of greenhouse-gas emissions The biggest challenge to reducing the greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to climate change in the state is to do so without imposing an unfair cost burden on residents and businesses, according to a new report submitted to the Legislature. The report is the work of a study group set up by lawmakers to identify ways to comply with an aggressive goal of cutting back pollution that leads to global warming, reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent from 2006 levels by 2050. It recommends that the state focus on three key areas to achieve those targets: transportation; heating and building; and energy production. It is not going to be easy or painless, witnesses said at a hearing of the Senate Environment and Energy Committee yesterday in the Statehouse Annex on a range of crucial energy issues facing the state. “T...

All efforts to stop the deadly impact of global warming will ultimately fail. Yes, fail. Our leaders are destroying us from within. Blame GOP, conservatives, Big Oil, capitalist billionaires, Koch Bros. Also the president. Harper’s quotes John Podesta, Obama’s senior adviser, warning: “History will judge Obama’s climate-change efforts as sadly insufficient.”  Morning rush hour traffic moves along the I-10 freeway in Los Angeles. America’s leaders are failing us, will never act, till it’s too late to plan for an economic catastrophe. We have lost our soul. There are four big reasons our leaders will not act in time: First. Overwhelming opposition by the GOP, conservatives and capitalists ... Second. Our blind failure to see our planet cannot feed the 10 billion people predicted by 2050. ... Third. Our addiction to “more is never enough” consumption ... Fourth. The irrational, unscientific and ultimately self-destructive belief of capitalism in perpetual economic growth...