Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, November 22, 2010 5:17:59 PM
As if California didn't enough unaccountable boards to come up with new ways to intrude into the lives of citizens, Margot Roosevelt
reports in the Los Angeles Times that a "task force" – the California Adaptation Advisory Panel, a group convened by the Los Angeles-based Pacific Council on International Policy – is calling for the creation of a "climate change panel" to "focus statewide attention on adapting to the effects of global warming."
Why not also create an Easter Bunny Monitoring Agency?
They want this new bureaucracy to do…
stepped-up data-gathering, monitoring and coordination among state agencies and in the private sector to prepare for a steep sea level rise, diminishing water supplies and the spread of wildfire, as studies have predicted.
Translation: we’re going to get more regulation and taxation of our business and personal lives.
The 70-page document, largely financed with a grant from the oil company BP, steers clear of controversial proposals, such as mandating higher insurance rates for coastal building, strict water conservation for agriculture or a moratorium on development in fire-prone communities.
Financed by BP? Wait, didn’t this most recent election tell us that we can't believe anything that is backed by an out-of-state oil company?
The report highlights projections of as much as 55 inches of sea-level rise along California's coast by 2100, and suggests that developers should stop assuming a "static environment."
And what if this prediction turns out to be false? The people who made the claim will be long gone and not held accountable. How about predicting where the water level will be in ten years, and if you're wrong, how about some sort of restitution?
Meanwhile, City of Los Angeles Tony Villar
signed a climate-change pact in Mexico City. How about a border control pact?
The so-called Mexico City Pact is a precursor to climate-change talks with world governments opening next week in the Mexican resort city of Cancun.
How much is this costing everyone? How large of a carbon footprint is being made by this summit?
The emperor has no clothes. The jig is up. Knock it off with all of this "we're going to stop global warming" stuff. Find a new way to try to tax and regulate us, and a new excuse for your trips.