California Governor to Host Leaders at Global Summit on Climate Change [Hoax]

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that many prominent leaders from around the world will participate in the "Governors' Global Summit 3: Building the Green Economy," to be held Nov. 15 and 16 at the University of California, Davis.

The participants and speakers are to include award-winning movie producer and director James Cameron, actor Harrison Ford, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Rajendra Pachauri and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell.

Who's Afraid of the Climate Community? | Mother Jones

But the science itself? Error bars and all, it's in good shape. The earth is warming, humans are a big cause of it, and we're most likely headed for disaster if we don't do something about it. Nothing about this hinges on whether or not climate scientists have been pricks.

Why California's Environmentalists May Defeat Prop 23 - TIME

It's a little unfair to accuse Valero and Tesoro of being antigreen carpetbaggers — both companies operate refineries in California and employ thousands of workers in the state. But what's really interesting about the Prop 23 battle is that it reverses the narrative found elsewhere in the midterms season. The No on Prop 23 campaign has received more than $30 million in donations, more than three times what its opponents have raised.
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But around a third of the money against Prop 23 has come from high-tech titans like venture capitalists Vinod Khosla and John Doerr. While peer pressure probably plays a role — in California it is definitely not cool not to care about climate change — the tech players are essentially doing the flip side of what the oil companies are doing: spending money on politics to protect their financial interests.
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It can be a bit dispiriting to think that green forces have raised millions to defeat a ballot initiative that, even if they beat, will just maintain the status quo. California will still be a lonely outlier, and environmentalists will have to grapple with the fact that there continues to be no strong national policy on energy and climate — and depending on how the midterms go, that might not change for a long time. But the fight against Prop 23 could represent a rallying point for greens. "If we defeat Prop 23, we will build a stronger coalition going ahead," says NRDC's Notthoff. "We have built a coalition that is broadly engaging and can keep pushing forward to build a clean-energy future." And they learned this lesson: it's good to have the rich people on your side.