IBDeditorials.com:  -- Where Have You Gone, Gray Davis?

In case you don't remember, California in 2006 passed the most sweeping greenhouse gas limits for any state in the union. Under this plan, CO2 output would be slashed by 25% by the year 2020. This is equivalent to removing 6.5 million vehicles from the road.

Sounds great. Except that greenhouse gas output has yet to budge, and the promised boom from "green jobs" promised by Schwarzenegger and his Democratic friends are nowhere in sight. California's jobless rate is now officially over 7%, nearly a point above the national average.

Instead, the greenhouse gas limits approved by Schwarzenegger will cost California billions of dollars in lost output as businesses locate elsewhere and take jobs with them. The one-time Golden State is rapidly deteriorating from a cutting-edge, high-tech economy to the fiscal equivalent of a Third World nation.

"The (state global warming) programs are costly to consumers and will not have any impact on the environment," the nonpartisan American Legislative Council concluded in a recent report.

In short, no bang for the buck. Just a lot of photo ops of Schwarzenegger hobnobbing with other governors and a handful of foreign officials eager to see the U.S. go down the same path to financial ruin as they have chosen.

Water Laws May Be Used to Fight "Warming" - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

The Center for Biological Diversity says it is prepared to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to use the water law to respond to the threat of ocean acidification.