A lot of you like to make fun of California as "the land of the dfruits and nuts," not realizing that California supplies about half of this country's food, and has changed the intellectual landscape with technological advances, including the iPhone and the computer you may be using to read this. I don't know if any of you heard or read the speech given by Governor Jerry Brown to the American Geophysical Union this past Wednesday, but you might be interested in it because it forshadows what Trump will encounter from the scientific community if he tries to deny science, including climate change. Because Brownj is Governor, what he has to say is important. It comes from the leader of the state with the largest GDP in the United States (in 2015, Texas' GDP was next, with 1.64 trillion versus California's approximately 2.2 trillion). If California were a country, it would be similar in economic clout to France. The saying goes that where California is today in its advances, the rest of the country will be in ten years.

Just to let you know a few brief facts before you read the summary, Brown has vowed to protect science and scientists, universities, and research laboratories with everything the State of California can muster, including an army of lawyers. He commented that if the accumulation of scientific data stops because federal satellites are turned off, California will launch its own satellites. California already has dozens of agreements with other states and countries, and will continue to promote and honor these no matter what the federal govenment does.

I am sure many readers in this forum will pooh-pooh all this, but don't worry. California will continue to improve your future with all kinds of information and technical innovation. We look forward to selling it to you.

Here is a summary of what Jerry Brown had to say:


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Governor's Press Office
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 (916) 445-4571
Governor Brown to Climate Scientists: "We Will Persevere"

SAN FRANCISCO – Rallying thousands of scientists at one of the largest international gatherings of its kind, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today called on the scientific community – the “truth-tellers” and “truth seekers” – to mobilize for the climate fight.

“The time has never been more urgent or your work never more important. The climate is changing, temperatures are rising, oceans are becoming more acidified, habitats are under stress – the world is facing tremendous danger,” said Governor Brown at the American Geophysical Union’s annual fall meeting in San Francisco. “It’ll be up to you as truth-tellers, truth seekers to mobilize all your efforts to fight back. We’ve got a lot of firepower. We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got the universities, we have the national labs and we have the political clout and sophistication for the battle – and we will persevere. Have no doubt about that.”

“We will pursue a path of collaboration and bold political advancement – whatever they do in Washington – and eventually the truth will prevail,” Governor Brown continued. “This is not a battle of one day or one election. This is a long-term slog into the future and you are there, the foot soldiers of change and understanding and scientific collaboration.”

Governor Brown’s remarks follow yesterday’s action to prevent further coastal oil and gas drilling, reduce ocean acidity and boost renewable energy development in California. In recent weeks, Governor Brown issued a joint release with the governors of Oregon and Washington and the premier of British Columbia reaffirming their commitment to climate action at the close of COP22. The Governor also announced 29 new members to the Under2 Coalition, an international climate pact formed by California and Baden-Württemberg, Germany among cities, states and countries to limit the increase in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius, the level of potentially catastrophic consequences. A total of 165 jurisdictions have now joined the coalition representing more than a billion people and $25.7 trillion in combined GDP – more than one-third of the global economy.

California is playing a world-leading role in setting aggressive climate goals, broadening collaboration among subnational leaders and taking action to reduce climate pollutants.

In September, California took bold action to advance its climate goals, establishing the most ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America and the nation's toughest restrictions on destructive super pollutants. The Governor also signed legislation that directs cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs which benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems.

This action builds on landmark legislation the Governor signed in October 2015 to generate half of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and double the rate of energy efficiency savings in California buildings. Governor Brown has also committed to reducing today's petroleum use in cars and trucks by up to 50 percent within the next 15 years; make heating fuels cleaner; and manage farm and rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon.

Over the past year and a half, the Governor has traveled to the United Nations headquarters in New York, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, the Vatican in Italy and the Climate Summit of the Americas in Toronto, Canada to call on other leaders to join California in the fight against climate change. Governor Brown also joined an unprecedented alliance of heads of state, city and state leaders – convened by the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund – to urge countries and companies around the globe to put a price on carbon.

These efforts to broaden collaboration among subnational leaders build on a number of other international climate change agreements with leaders from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Mexico, China, North America, Japan, Israel, Peru and Chile and Governor Brown's efforts to gather hundreds of world-renowned researchers and scientists around a groundbreaking call to action – called the consensus statement – which translates key scientific climate findings from disparate fields into one unified document.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in California and will disproportionately impact the state's most vulnerable populations.

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Oops. I forgot to mention our budget surplus of 2.8 billion dollars this year. If you don't like California, please don't come here. Ha-ha-ha ! But we give you permission to buy the high tech products we put on the market this year, and also to watch the movies we make and the TV shows we make, too.

Our population is increasing by about .9% per year, which is regarded as a healthy population increase rate. I don't suppose our roads and infrastruture are in any worse shape than anywhere else these days in the USA. I don't know how you got the idea that Silicon Valley is a mere shadow of itself these days, but I have a relative who is on the boards of a number of venture capital companies, and I can assure you they are thriving and busy. We will continue to thrive, and in ten years time you will be so jealous you will imitate us then, if your state and its economy have not gone down the tubes due to Trump. Good luck !



quote=jimahrens]Why not mention the mass exodus of people and business because of tax and regulations. And the Silicon valley a mere shadow of what it once was. Property values in the tank. Roads, Highways and bridges in sad shape. A pension system due to implode. A state that went from a dream to a nightmare.

A lot of you like to make fun of California as "the land of the dfruits and nuts," not realizing that California supplies about half of this country's food, and has changed the intellectual landscape with technological advances, including the iPhone and the computer you may be using to read this. I don't know if any of you heard or read the speech given by Governor Jerry Brown to the American Geophysical Union this past Wednesday, but you might be interested in it because it forshadows what Trump will encounter from the scientific community if he tries to deny science, including climate change. Because Brownj is Governor, what he has to say is important. It comes from the leader of the state with the largest GDP in the United States (in 2015, Texas' GDP was next, with 1.64 trillion versus California's approximately 2.2 trillion). If California were a country, it would be similar in economic clout to France. The saying goes that where California is today in its advances, the rest of the country will be in ten years.

Just to let you know a few brief facts before you read the summary, Brown has vowed to protect science and scientists, universities, and research laboratories with everything the State of California can muster, including an army of lawyers. He commented that if the accumulation of scientific data stops because federal satellites are turned off, California will launch its own satellites. California already has dozens of agreements with other states and countries, and will continue to promote and honor these no matter what the federal govenment does.

I am sure many readers in this forum will pooh-pooh all this, but don't worry. California will continue to improve your future with all kinds of information and technical innovation. We look forward to selling it to you.

Here is a summary of what Jerry Brown had to say:


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Governor's Press Office
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 (916) 445-4571
Governor Brown to Climate Scientists: "We Will Persevere"

SAN FRANCISCO – Rallying thousands of scientists at one of the largest international gatherings of its kind, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today called on the scientific community – the “truth-tellers” and “truth seekers” – to mobilize for the climate fight.

“The time has never been more urgent or your work never more important. The climate is changing, temperatures are rising, oceans are becoming more acidified, habitats are under stress – the world is facing tremendous danger,” said Governor Brown at the American Geophysical Union’s annual fall meeting in San Francisco. “It’ll be up to you as truth-tellers, truth seekers to mobilize all your efforts to fight back. We’ve got a lot of firepower. We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got the universities, we have the national labs and we have the political clout and sophistication for the battle – and we will persevere. Have no doubt about that.”

“We will pursue a path of collaboration and bold political advancement – whatever they do in Washington – and eventually the truth will prevail,” Governor Brown continued. “This is not a battle of one day or one election. This is a long-term slog into the future and you are there, the foot soldiers of change and understanding and scientific collaboration.”

Governor Brown’s remarks follow yesterday’s action to prevent further coastal oil and gas drilling, reduce ocean acidity and boost renewable energy development in California. In recent weeks, Governor Brown issued a joint release with the governors of Oregon and Washington and the premier of British Columbia reaffirming their commitment to climate action at the close of COP22. The Governor also announced 29 new members to the Under2 Coalition, an international climate pact formed by California and Baden-Württemberg, Germany among cities, states and countries to limit the increase in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius, the level of potentially catastrophic consequences. A total of 165 jurisdictions have now joined the coalition representing more than a billion people and $25.7 trillion in combined GDP – more than one-third of the global economy.

California is playing a world-leading role in setting aggressive climate goals, broadening collaboration among subnational leaders and taking action to reduce climate pollutants.

In September, California took bold action to advance its climate goals, establishing the most ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America and the nation's toughest restrictions on destructive super pollutants. The Governor also signed legislation that directs cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs which benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems.

This action builds on landmark legislation the Governor signed in October 2015 to generate half of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and double the rate of energy efficiency savings in California buildings. Governor Brown has also committed to reducing today's petroleum use in cars and trucks by up to 50 percent within the next 15 years; make heating fuels cleaner; and manage farm and rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon.

Over the past year and a half, the Governor has traveled to the United Nations headquarters in New York, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, the Vatican in Italy and the Climate Summit of the Americas in Toronto, Canada to call on other leaders to join California in the fight against climate change. Governor Brown also joined an unprecedented alliance of heads of state, city and state leaders – convened by the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund – to urge countries and companies around the globe to put a price on carbon.

These efforts to broaden collaboration among subnational leaders build on a number of other international climate change agreements with leaders from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Mexico, China, North America, Japan, Israel, Peru and Chile and Governor Brown's efforts to gather hundreds of world-renowned researchers and scientists around a groundbreaking call to action – called the consensus statement – which translates key scientific climate findings from disparate fields into one unified document.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in California and will disproportionately impact the state's most vulnerable populations.

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A lot of you like to make fun of California as "the land of the dfruits and nuts," not realizing that California supplies about half of this country's food, and has changed the intellectual landscape with technological advances, including the iPhone and the computer you may be using to read this. I don't know if any of you heard or read the speech given by Governor Jerry Brown to the American Geophysical Union this past Wednesday, but you might be interested in it because it forshadows what Trump will encounter from the scientific community if he tries to deny science, including climate change. Because Brownj is Governor, what he has to say is important. It comes from the leader of the state with the largest GDP in the United States (in 2015, Texas' GDP was next, with 1.64 trillion versus California's approximately 2.2 trillion). If California were a country, it would be similar in economic clout to France. The saying goes that where California is today in its advances, the rest of the country will be in ten years.

Just to let you know a few brief facts before you read the summary, Brown has vowed to protect science and scientists, universities, and research laboratories with everything the State of California can muster, including an army of lawyers. He commented that if the accumulation of scientific data stops because federal satellites are turned off, California will launch its own satellites. California already has dozens of agreements with other states and countries, and will continue to promote and honor these no matter what the federal govenment does.

I am sure many readers in this forum will pooh-pooh all this, but don't worry. California will continue to improve your future with all kinds of information and technical innovation. We look forward to selling it to you.

Here is a summary of what Jerry Brown had to say:


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Governor's Press Office
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 (916) 445-4571
Governor Brown to Climate Scientists: "We Will Persevere"

SAN FRANCISCO – Rallying thousands of scientists at one of the largest international gatherings of its kind, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today called on the scientific community – the “truth-tellers” and “truth seekers” – to mobilize for the climate fight.

“The time has never been more urgent or your work never more important. The climate is changing, temperatures are rising, oceans are becoming more acidified, habitats are under stress – the world is facing tremendous danger,” said Governor Brown at the American Geophysical Union’s annual fall meeting in San Francisco. “It’ll be up to you as truth-tellers, truth seekers to mobilize all your efforts to fight back. We’ve got a lot of firepower. We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got the universities, we have the national labs and we have the political clout and sophistication for the battle – and we will persevere. Have no doubt about that.”

“We will pursue a path of collaboration and bold political advancement – whatever they do in Washington – and eventually the truth will prevail,” Governor Brown continued. “This is not a battle of one day or one election. This is a long-term slog into the future and you are there, the foot soldiers of change and understanding and scientific collaboration.”

Governor Brown’s remarks follow yesterday’s action to prevent further coastal oil and gas drilling, reduce ocean acidity and boost renewable energy development in California. In recent weeks, Governor Brown issued a joint release with the governors of Oregon and Washington and the premier of British Columbia reaffirming their commitment to climate action at the close of COP22. The Governor also announced 29 new members to the Under2 Coalition, an international climate pact formed by California and Baden-Württemberg, Germany among cities, states and countries to limit the increase in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius, the level of potentially catastrophic consequences. A total of 165 jurisdictions have now joined the coalition representing more than a billion people and $25.7 trillion in combined GDP – more than one-third of the global economy.

California is playing a world-leading role in setting aggressive climate goals, broadening collaboration among subnational leaders and taking action to reduce climate pollutants.

In September, California took bold action to advance its climate goals, establishing the most ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America and the nation's toughest restrictions on destructive super pollutants. The Governor also signed legislation that directs cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs which benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems.

This action builds on landmark legislation the Governor signed in October 2015 to generate half of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and double the rate of energy efficiency savings in California buildings. Governor Brown has also committed to reducing today's petroleum use in cars and trucks by up to 50 percent within the next 15 years; make heating fuels cleaner; and manage farm and rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon.

Over the past year and a half, the Governor has traveled to the United Nations headquarters in New York, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, the Vatican in Italy and the Climate Summit of the Americas in Toronto, Canada to call on other leaders to join California in the fight against climate change. Governor Brown also joined an unprecedented alliance of heads of state, city and state leaders – convened by the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund – to urge countries and companies around the globe to put a price on carbon.

These efforts to broaden collaboration among subnational leaders build on a number of other international climate change agreements with leaders from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Mexico, China, North America, Japan, Israel, Peru and Chile and Governor Brown's efforts to gather hundreds of world-renowned researchers and scientists around a groundbreaking call to action – called the consensus statement – which translates key scientific climate findings from disparate fields into one unified document.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in California and will disproportionately impact the state's most vulnerable populations.

###

A lot of you like to make fun of California as "the land of the dfruits and nuts," not realizing that California supplies about half of this country's food, and has changed the intellectual landscape with technological advances, including the iPhone and the computer you may be using to read this. I don't know if any of you heard or read the speech given by Governor Jerry Brown to the American Geophysical Union this past Wednesday, but you might be interested in it because it forshadows what Trump will encounter from the scientific community if he tries to deny science, including climate change. Because Brownj is Governor, what he has to say is important. It comes from the leader of the state with the largest GDP in the United States (in 2015, Texas' GDP was next, with 1.64 trillion versus California's approximately 2.2 trillion). If California were a country, it would be similar in economic clout to France. The saying goes that where California is today in its advances, the rest of the country will be in ten years.

Just to let you know a few brief facts before you read the summary, Brown has vowed to protect science and scientists, universities, and research laboratories with everything the State of California can muster, including an army of lawyers. He commented that if the accumulation of scientific data stops because federal satellites are turned off, California will launch its own satellites. California already has dozens of agreements with other states and countries, and will continue to promote and honor these no matter what the federal govenment does.

I am sure many readers in this forum will pooh-pooh all this, but don't worry. California will continue to improve your future with all kinds of information and technical innovation. We look forward to selling it to you.

Here is a summary of what Jerry Brown had to say:


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Governor's Press Office
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 (916) 445-4571
Governor Brown to Climate Scientists: "We Will Persevere"

SAN FRANCISCO – Rallying thousands of scientists at one of the largest international gatherings of its kind, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today called on the scientific community – the “truth-tellers” and “truth seekers” – to mobilize for the climate fight.

“The time has never been more urgent or your work never more important. The climate is changing, temperatures are rising, oceans are becoming more acidified, habitats are under stress – the world is facing tremendous danger,” said Governor Brown at the American Geophysical Union’s annual fall meeting in San Francisco. “It’ll be up to you as truth-tellers, truth seekers to mobilize all your efforts to fight back. We’ve got a lot of firepower. We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got the universities, we have the national labs and we have the political clout and sophistication for the battle – and we will persevere. Have no doubt about that.”

“We will pursue a path of collaboration and bold political advancement – whatever they do in Washington – and eventually the truth will prevail,” Governor Brown continued. “This is not a battle of one day or one election. This is a long-term slog into the future and you are there, the foot soldiers of change and understanding and scientific collaboration.”

Governor Brown’s remarks follow yesterday’s action to prevent further coastal oil and gas drilling, reduce ocean acidity and boost renewable energy development in California. In recent weeks, Governor Brown issued a joint release with the governors of Oregon and Washington and the premier of British Columbia reaffirming their commitment to climate action at the close of COP22. The Governor also announced 29 new members to the Under2 Coalition, an international climate pact formed by California and Baden-Württemberg, Germany among cities, states and countries to limit the increase in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius, the level of potentially catastrophic consequences. A total of 165 jurisdictions have now joined the coalition representing more than a billion people and $25.7 trillion in combined GDP – more than one-third of the global economy.

California is playing a world-leading role in setting aggressive climate goals, broadening collaboration among subnational leaders and taking action to reduce climate pollutants.

In September, California took bold action to advance its climate goals, establishing the most ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America and the nation's toughest restrictions on destructive super pollutants. The Governor also signed legislation that directs cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs which benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems.

This action builds on landmark legislation the Governor signed in October 2015 to generate half of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and double the rate of energy efficiency savings in California buildings. Governor Brown has also committed to reducing today's petroleum use in cars and trucks by up to 50 percent within the next 15 years; make heating fuels cleaner; and manage farm and rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon.

Over the past year and a half, the Governor has traveled to the United Nations headquarters in New York, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, the Vatican in Italy and the Climate Summit of the Americas in Toronto, Canada to call on other leaders to join California in the fight against climate change. Governor Brown also joined an unprecedented alliance of heads of state, city and state leaders – convened by the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund – to urge countries and companies around the globe to put a price on carbon.

These efforts to broaden collaboration among subnational leaders build on a number of other international climate change agreements with leaders from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Mexico, China, North America, Japan, Israel, Peru and Chile and Governor Brown's efforts to gather hundreds of world-renowned researchers and scientists around a groundbreaking call to action – called the consensus statement – which translates key scientific climate findings from disparate fields into one unified document.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in California and will disproportionately impact the state's most vulnerable populations.

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