California
Move over city and highway MPG. Smog ratings - you're yesterday's news. Beginning today, those shopping a new ride in California will face a new standard in town -- something called a "Global Warming Score."
No kidding.
Pursuant to Assembly Bill 1229, a sticker displaying a rank comparing "the emissions of global warming gases from the vehicle with the average projected emissions of global warming gases from all vehicles of the same model year sold in the state" must be affixed to all motor vehicles henceforth sold in the state. These so-called "Global Warming Scores" range from 1 to 10, with 1 representing a vehicle selfishly emitting an excess of 520 "CO2 - equivalent Grams per mile" and 10 given to those altruistically checking in at under 200.
Well, so as not to burden its citizenry with potentially enlightening science, the Governator's State has conveniently lumped all "Greenhouse gases (ghg) emitted from vehicles includ[ing] carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (NO2), and hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) from air conditioner refrigerant" together into one "CO2 equivalent Value." Pretty slick move -- while CO2 is the least significant of all so-called "Greenhouse Gases," its unique status as chief byproduct of industrial progress makes it by far the most valuable to regulation-hungry eco-maniacs. [snip]
Considering that all three points are at the very least unproven and recently all but disproved alarmist propaganda, this new mandated metric is neither any less comical nor any more relevant than would be a Dragon Repellant Score.
But today's California milestone is a stark reminder that misplaced, even though hilarious, AGW legislation currently in the pipeline has taken on an impetus that even recent challenges to its very foundation will not easily redirect. And it may be years before misinformed Pols (including the President elect) realize they've been duped by self-serving and/or just plain wrong alarmists and manage a strategy reassessment.
[and that's the plan: just get the laws on the books and they're there to stay, regardless of subsequent scientific findings]
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