For anyone stumbling upon this page who’s just awoken from a decade-long coma, it’s 2008, and for the last 4 years Arnold Schwarzenegger has been the governor of California.
I’ll just let that sink in for a minute…
You alright? Okay. So, Ahnold is running a whole state these days — seriously! — and one of his big causes is The Warming Of The Globe. (This is a theory that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE because SUV fumes are melting the icebergs and the polar bears are all drowning. Al Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize for it. I told you a lot has happened since ‘98!) In 2006 Schwarzenegger passed the Global Warming Solutions Act, which puts caps on greenhouse gas emissions and penalizes Cullyfornia industries that don’t comply. Here’s what he said when he signed it:
“We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late… The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.”
Hasta la vista, debate!
And how is the Governator showing his own personal commitment to ending this crisis? By flying back and forth between his mansion in Brentwood and his office in Sacramento every day on his private jet. According to the LA Times:
The governor’s Gulfstream jet does nearly as much damage to the environment in one hour as a small car does in a year, according to figures compiled by the Helium Report, an online publication for buyers of luxury items.
Administration officials say Schwarzenegger is well aware of this and makes amends by purchasing pollution credits for the carbon dioxide his jet releases. The credits fund efforts worldwide to reduce greenhouse gases, such as projects that harness energy from wind, landfill gas and farm waste, although they don’t eliminate the pollution from Schwarzenegger’s plane.
Flying the Gulfstream and other jets the governor uses costs as much as $10,000 an hour. Some conservationists say Schwarzenegger is essentially attempting to buy a clean conscience with the carbon offsets, which cost about $43 an hour.
Hey, what do you want the guy to do, live in Sacramento??
(Hat tip: Hot Air)
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I would normally try to make some wise-ass, funny comment here. Instead I’ll do this…
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071010131931.htm
Just look. They got their dire predictions wrong just five months, thats months, in the future. I wonder how their 100 year models will fair. My guess would be not much better. This is not some “neo-con” “right-wing” site. It’s Science Daily. My favorite parts are the Related Stories section. A self congratulatory section where they praise themselves for being so sure. Only they weren’t. Oh I’m sure I’ll get reamed, just like I did by the Pot Nazis. In this case though hindsight is only 6 months old. There it is. In black and white. I’m sure somewhere someone held up this same article and said… WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! I wonder what they’ll say now?
“Schwarzenegger is well aware of this and makes amends by purchasing pollution credits for the carbon dioxide his jet releases”
wait … didn’t the Catholic church do something like this during the Dark Ages? The Dark Ages. Hundreds of years later and folks are buying away their eco-sins.
I’m gonna start a carbon offset company. Sounds like easy money. People empty their pockets, then scuttle off. And you don’t even really have to provide anything but a certificate.
I just learned that Arnold Schwartzenegger’s and Maria Schriver’s gulfstream jets cost $20,000,000 a year apiece just to have them sitting on the ground. Who is picking up the tab?? Excessive gas usage costs about $200,000 per trip. His (unethical) California Protocol Foundation lists donations far below that amount. Supposedly the Protocl Foundation raises money to pay for his playboy, luxe travels from generous donors. Diane Finestein also flys frequently on her polluting gulfstream to China on business. Is there a conflict of interest here? Why many trips to China by DiFi??? Is DiFi’s jet paid for by a similar tax exempt non-profit foundation?