Schwarzenegger: California's silent disaster

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By Arnold Schwarzenegger

April 8, 2013

I will always remember the day I woke to the news that more than 2,000 fires were burning in California. I thought I must not have heard correctly. Two thousand fires? How could that be?

In the end, the state's brave firefighters, joined by contingents from out of state, won the battle. But not before 11 emergency declarations were issued and more than 400,000 acres burned. Countless lives and livelihoods were ruined.

Today, there's a new disaster looming, and although it's not as riveting or dramatic as walls of flames and billowing black smoke, it needs our immediate attention. The draft National Climate Assessment, now being circulated for comment and scheduled for release this year by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, presents a sobering vision of the world that awaits us if we don't act.

This team of top climate scientists has concluded that our region of the country is hotter than it has ever been and that it will get hotter — because of humans. The last decade was the hottest the Southwestern U.S. has experienced — on average 2 degrees warmer than it had been historically. The scientists project a further increase over the next 50 years of 6 to 9 degrees if we do nothing.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0408-schwarzenegger-climate-report-20130408,0,6026654.story

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1. Schwarzenegger?

Yeah. He was sooo good for California. Stopped clock, etc.

[pscot]

2. But he's on the side of the angels WRT climate change

He has adherents. If he can change a few minds, good for him and for all of us.

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3. Ahnuld has his good points when it comes to social policy.

He's just rich, and that corrupts his vision when money is involved , like on taxes.

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4. Someone in the GOP has got to say it --

If he can convince a few of them to move on climate change, more power to him.