California s Climate Policy Gets Burned – WSJ

Two decades of greenhouse gas emission reductions in California went up in smoke in 2020 literally. So finds a new study on Golden State wildfire emissions that highlights the folly of Sacramento s climate priorities.

University of California researchers calculated that wildfire emissions in 2020 alone were two times higher than the state s greenhouse gas reductions from 2003 to 2019. That s in a single year. Incredibly, wildfires in 2020 were the state s second largest source of CO2 emissions after transportation and generated double the greenhouse gases of all the state s power plants.

While vegetation will regrow and suck carbon out of the air, the study says this is unlikely to occur on the time scale necessary to meet near and medium-term emission targets needed to avert passing the 1.5 degree C threshold by 2050. So thanks to California, the world is doomed. Or so liberals say if the 1.5 degree warming threshold that is supposed to signal climate Armageddon is exceeded.

via www.wsj.com