Christie Shreds New Jersey Climate Change [Hoax] Programs | CommonDreams.org

TRENTON, N.J. - March 25 - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has taken a wrecking ball to the state's touted Global Warming Response Act, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In recent weeks, the Christie administration has blocked required reporting from greenhouse gas sources, diverted $300 million in Clean Energy Funds dedicated to energy efficiency and proposed to zero out the state's Office of Climate Change and Energy.

"New Jersey's Global Warming Response Act is now a dead letter," stated New Jersey PEER Director Bill Wolfe, referring to 2007 legislation regarded as the crowning environmental achievement of the Corzine administration. "Whatever progress on climate change we can expect will have to come from Washington, because Trenton has gone AWOL."

[Global warming hero?]: Arnold Schwarzenegger Most Unpopular Governor in California History

Elected in response to voter dissatisfaction with his predecessor, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today finds himself with the worst popularity rating in California gubernatorial history. The latest Field Poll pegged Schwarzenegger’s approval rating at 23% and his disapproval at 71%.
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Californians are even more unhappy with the state legislature’s performance—only 13% approve of their work and 78% disapprove. The numbers matched the all-time low.

Worried About Global Warming? Then You Are in the Minority

Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and other Democratic leaders are promising to bring a new energy/global warming bill to Congress over the next few weeks. They may do just that. But given that only about one-fourth of Americans are truly concerned about global warming, as well as the ragged state of the economy, the tattered reputation of the IPCC, and the recent cold winter that hammered much of the US, the opposition to any climate change legislation will be formidable. Indeed, opponents to such legislation must already be working on their talking points, the first of which may well be: “who really cares?”

How Republicans Learned To Reject Climate Change [Fraud] : NPR

Are many Republican leaders growing more skeptical about climate legislation owing to concerns raised by their political base? Or are GOP voters following a shift among top officials and conservative media?