Editorials: Our View: Costs cool public ardor to take on global warming

...Now, a new poll shows 63 percent of registered California voters support reducing greenhouse gases, but less than half — 47 percent — when the question includes likely higher energy costs.
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As motorists feel the pain at the pump and workers lose jobs because employers flee the state's exorbitant taxes and regulations, Californians increasingly will decide that mobility, employment and prosperity are worth emitting more CO2 into the atmosphere.