Pesky Laws

The Terminator, a k a the Governator, is not happy. And you shouldn’t be either.


What has Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California incensed is the fact that two Texas oil companies with two refineries each in California are financing a campaign to roll back California’s landmark laws to slow global warming and promote clean energy innovation, because it would require the refiners to install new emission-control tools. At a time when President Obama and Congress have failed to pass a clean energy bill, California’s laws are the best thing we have going to stimulate clean-tech in America. We don’t want them gutted. C’mon in. This is a fight worth having
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The real joke is thinking that if California suspends its climate laws that Mother Nature will also take a timeout. “We can wait to solve this problem as long as we want,” says Nate Lewis, an energy chemist at the California Institute of Technology: “But Nature is balancing its books every day. It was a record 113 degrees in Los Angeles the other day. There are laws of politics and laws of physics. Only the latter can’t be repealed.”

The Terminator vs. Big Oil by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Off topic but...

I loved this article!
Is the grand design within our grasp

Some confirmation may be only months away because of the experiments currently underway at the Large Hadron Collider.
ATLAS particle physics experiment

ATLAS is also an experiment. An experiment is a system designed to ask nature a question. On ATLAS, we want to know a whole bunch of things: what is the nature of dark matter? Are there extra dimensions? Why do particles have mass? To answer these questions, we have to ask: what happens when you smash protons together at 7 trillion electron volts?

Hmmm reminds me of the opening act of 2001

And while Hawking is stirring up controversy because he claims we don't need a god to explain creation, I am almost ready to think the miracle of Hawking (the fact that his disease hasn't killed him yet and that he can do amazing physics all in his head) must be due to some divine intervention.

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That mankind is willing to devote resources to these lofty goals but not to mitigation of climate change is a mystery