John Hood recently examined the failure of global warming alarmists to win enough public support their ideas.
Now Newsweek offers us some more good news: an unlikely threat to the Western Climate Initiative uniting three states and three Canadian provinces:
[T]here?s an unlikely stumbling block to that realization: California. The
state?s participation in the WCI depends on its landmark 2006 climate
legislation, which is scheduled to go into effect next year. A
proposition on the ballot this fall, however, would freeze the bill
until unemployment drops to 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters,
something that?s happened only three times in the last 40 years. And
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who argues that
regulation could cost jobs, has also pledged to suspend the bill for a
year. If either Whitman or the ballot proposition succeeds?and right
now, voters seem split on both?the WCI would lose its most influential
member, and a back door to energy reform could close.
When even those on the left coast start to refuse the Kool-Aid, there’s reason for optimism.
