California leads the way in climate-change [swindle]

"California's fingerprints are all over it," said Carl Zichella, regional director for the Sierra Club. "You look at the major components of this legislation and you see the leadership California has provided over the last eight years."

It's no accident. Los Angeles Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman co-wrote the bill. San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, corralled the votes to pass it. Rep. Mary Bono Mack of Palm Springs was one of only eight Republicans to vote for the bill, sealing its victory.
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"I wouldn't want to say we were setting the agenda; we're offering a lot of leadership and doing a lot of the heavy lifting," he said. "We wouldn't have gotten this done without the delegation."

The California connection hasn't been lost on the bill's opponents, either.

"As goes California, so goes the nation," warned an editorial from the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute. "Nowhere is this adage truer than in environmental policy, thanks to Democrats' eagerness to impose the Golden State's radical eco-agenda on all Americans."

Environmental Corruption: Dennis Prager Interviews Professor Ian Plimer

Plimer: The figure is a bit less than that. It's about twenty percent of the time we've had ice. The rest of the time the planet has been warmer and wetter, and it's been a wonderful, volcanic world, because every time we've had high carbon dioxide, we've had thriving life on planet Earth. It's when we have low carbon dioxide content, and that's as it is today in geological history, that we have life that seems to struggle a little bit.

Prager: So let me get this straight - for my layman's brain. You're telling me that 80% of recorded time, or of time that we can, not record, but measure, of Earth's history...80% of the time there was no ice in the Arctic?

Plimer: That's correct.