California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars by 2035

JRscooby wrote:

NamMedevac 70 wrote:
Scoobydoo I like your excuse for letting the other big polluting countries have free ride on continued global air pollution. I do not share your guilt complex of blaming America first for everything. And except for this forum I think most Americans would agree with me. Compared to the jet set crowd and some RVers my carbon footprint is very small indeed. I now fish and camp without the small TT. No hypocrite here bubba joe just the facts. Cheers

Do I blame all America? Over half century ago science started talking about the dangers of climate change. Not long after, a President started advocating reduced energy use, andput solar panels on the roof of white house to show/study the possibility of renewable energy generation. Can we even guess how much less carbon would be in air now if we had built on that for all the years? But instead the next guy mocked the idea of a sweater in the house, had panels removed. Somehow the people that want to profit off oil and gas made climate a political issue. Oil companies have for decades got reports of harm from scientists, buried those reports, and hired politicians to protect their profit.
Many times on this site we read the evil in other developed counties for restricting ICE in their cities. Look at rivers/lakes in SW US. Do you see a problem? Some of the veggie growing land in Cali are not expected to produce this year. With the restrictions in production of wheat in Ukraine Kansas farmer should be expecting great things right? Many farmers are not getting rain, production reduced. Now look around the world. Rivers at low levels not seen in 500 years. We all have waited to long, but much of that wait is because of pushback from 1 major party in US. Even now, we hear "Why should we act? Force others to act first!" US claims to be world leader. I'm sure many people in other developed countries, forced to reduce from a lower average level "Why should we act? US is not acting, their bad air will come here!"

While it is true that Reagan removed the panels from the roof that Carter had installed, Bush re-installed solar on the WH grounds in 2003. In 2010 panels were also installed on the WH roof again. Your narrative makes it seem like it was dropped with Regan and never re-visited by subsequent presidents.

Are droughts solely the result of climate change? No. Droughts and flooding elsewhere is also a result of improper forestation and land management. Biggest contributors are farming itself, residential and commercial building and mining. Simply put, when you don't have natural vegetation to retain soil and moisture you get runoff and erosion and this continually exacerbates itself. This process is also a large contributor to climate change. Plants convert CO2 to O2. Houses don't, roads don't, commercial structures don't, farming doesn't, and mining doesn't. I think about this as I see all the news about new mining for battery raw materials to save the planet. You aren't solving anything. Just trading one problem/contributor for another. But lots of money being made.