Politico provides a nice puff piece for Presidential aspirant Gov. Inslee of Washington:
‘Climate warrior’ jolts 2020 presidential field
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is about to take climate change politics to the next level.
No one has ever won a major statewide race, let alone a presidential nomination, with a single-issue, climate-focused candidacy. But Jay Inslee is about to try.
The Washington state governor launched a White House bid Friday that stands to have a significant effect on the electoral politics surrounding climate change.
Yeah, yeah and good for him. Incredibly, the article makes no mention of the failed, Inslee-backed Nov 2018 Washington State referendum on a carbon tax.
So what's the campaign bumper sticker? "Inslee 2020 - He's Learned From His Mistakes"? Or is this a sly stealth strategy, figuring no one will take seriously a guy who can't get it done?
Baffling. [Not baffling - brand promotion, obvi.]
MORE INTERESTING: The Times writes about the changing climate on climate change within the Republican Party. There are bothTrump v. Science and Trump v. Establishment angles; here we go:
With Climate Science on the March, an Isolated Trump Hunkers Down
By Coral Davenport Feb 28, 2019
WASHINGTON — New efforts by President Trump and his staff to question or undermine the established science of climate change have created a widening rift between the White House on one side, and scientific facts, government agencies, and some leading figures in the president’s own party on the other.
Wait, "Coral" is writing on climate change? What next, "Hemp" on marijuana reform? Anyway, on the to leading figures:
At the same time, more senior Republicans, including those in Congress, are moving in the opposite direction, acknowledging the established science and publicly calling to reduce fossil fuel pollution.
To be sure, some Republicans continue to question, or, more commonly, to remain silent on the issue of human-caused climate change.
But in February, three of the top-ranking Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Greg Walden of Oregon, Fred Upton of Michigan, and John Shimkus of Illinois, published an op-ed on the website Real Clear Policy in which they said, “climate change is real” and called for innovations to “reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Similarly, in December, Senator John Barrasso, the Wyoming Republican who is chairman of the Senate Environment Committee, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in which he acknowledged his acceptance of climate science but also criticized the Paris Agreement and proposals to tax carbon dioxide emissions.
Do let me add that economist and Republican adviser N. Gregory Mankiw pushed a revenue-neutral carbon tax back in 2007.
But for more: Tyler Cowen notes that as some countries go green the price of fossil fuels will probably drop, which may not encourage laggards to also green up.
Megan McArdle notes that since the US isn't really the problem (Spoiler - look to China and India), decarbonizing the US won't be the main solution. What will? Investment and innovation that leads to technologies that can compete with fossil fuels without subsidies only the US, Europe and Japan might be able to afford.
No matter what rich-world economies do about their energy consumption, or what “moral leadership” they exert, people in the non-rich world are going to want to drive cars instead of walking; to wash their clothes in machines instead of in a river; to cool their houses with air-conditioning; to eat meat every day — in other words, to do and own all the things that make modern rich-world lives so safe and pleasant.
That's all in a town of about 12,000 people.
Posted by: bubarooni | March 01, 2019 at 07:05 PM
Hey, there's a new thread, but all the Kate Upton pics are over here so I can understand staying here instead of moving on over.
Posted by: daddy | March 01, 2019 at 07:06 PM
I ain't going nowhere...
Posted by: bubarooni | March 01, 2019 at 07:07 PM
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Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | March 01, 2019 at 07:08 PM