Dec. 21, 2008
Schwarzenegger's Green Challenge
California Governor Says He'll Stick To Environmental Plans, Despite Economic Crisis
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Calif. Gov's Bold Moves
The former Hollywood action star-turned California governor may be facing his most formidable foe in a $40 billion state budget gap caused by the economic decline. Scott Pelley reports.
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Gov. Schwarzenegger toured a plant that manufactures solar panels. These panels play a big part in Schwarzenegger's energy plan.
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Schwarzenegger had seen it.
"Savage. Savage. They said you were taxing and spending this beautiful state to ruin, to use their words. What do you think when you read that?" Pelley asked.
"I think this is part of the job, that you have people way on the left that will attack you for making cuts. You will have people way on the right that will attack you for your spending," the governor replied.
"If you read between the lines in the Wall Street Journal editorial, it's essentially asking, 'What kind of Republican are you?'" Pelley remarked.
"For me, the most important thing is, when I make a decision, is what is best for the people of California, and what is best for our economy, and what's best for the state, not what is best for my party. I'm not a party servant. I'm a public servant," Schwarzenegger said.
Schwarzenegger likes to call his way "post-partisan," and he just campaigned successfully through a controversial reform that makes traditionally Democratic or Republican legislative seats more competitive at election time.
But his approval rating has dropped from 60 percent two years ago to 40 percent now. Still, that's better than the legislature gets - 21 percent.
Running California means running the eighth largest economy in the world and with two years left as governor, Schwarzenegger will soon have to find an encore. Being born in Austria would seem to disqualify him from the next political step.
"Well, you're a man of no small ambition. If the Constitution was changed, you'd like to be president, wouldn't you?" Pelley asked.
"Yeah, absolutely," Schwarzenegger acknowledged. "I think that I am always a person that looks for the next big goal. And I love challenges. I always set goals that are so high, that are almost impossible to achieve. Because then, you're always hungry for climbing and climbing. Because it's always interesting. The climb is always interesting. When you get there you just have to pick another goal."
He's already won over the president-elect to his environmental goals. At Schwarzenegger’s environmental conference, Mr. Obama sent a video message endorsing the California plan and said under this administration, the US would adopt similar greenhouse gas reduction goals.
But now Schwarzenegger still has to head off that budget disaster - to find middle ground that no one else can see - and keep up the appearance that the climb is a joy. "People think show business was in Hollywood but I think Reagan was absolutely right, if he wouldn't have the training in acting this would have been a very difficult job and I think that's what it is, that's reality," Schwarzenegger said.
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See all 72 CommentsThe interviewer got something wrong about Ahnold''s Hummer. It did not need to be converted to run on biodiesel. ANY diesel engine will run on biodiesel right off the lot with no modification. Biodiesel made from Algae will free us from our dependence on oil, will create millions of jobs, and will lead to cleaner air.
Thanks, Ahnold!
You can see the patent for a version of this device here: http://www.cheniere.org/references/MEG_Patent.pdf
Will the fed declassify MEG and scalar wave technology? Why doesn''t CBS news ask this question?
He gets joy from making tough decisions, like cutting off benefits for people on disability, and providing aid to illegal aliens, like his wife tells him to do. Arnold needs to becomes the Democrat he always wanted to be.
Good for Arnold sticking to his green plans. He''s one of the few forward thinking Republicans out there. Maybe he can lead the party back to it''s senses.
Schwarzenegger''s first act in office was to cut the Vehicle License Fee by $4 billion/year. Then asked for and got a $16 billion bond measure to pay for the first four years of this cut.
This simultaneously rewarded people who bought expensive new gas guzzlers. And, helped start the snowballing deficit we are stuck with now.
He mocked "the politics of guilt" with regard to environmental solutions. He said all we need is technological solutions and no change in behavior or lifestyle.
Rubbish!
I come from the world of technology for thirty years and he could not be more wrong.
We spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the US subsidizing Forced Automobile Dependency. Google "America''s Autos on Welfare" for the documentation.
If we spent a fraction of that on high-speed rail and on visionary public transportation, we can escape this drudgery of Forced Automobile Dependency.
It does not matter what cars are powered by. One third of Americans cannot drive and they are stranded here. We still will destroy habitat for sprawl.
And you will spend a third of your work life either stuck in those traffic jams or earning the money to pay to be stuck in those traffic jams.
Schwarzenegger is not part of the solution. He is a key part of the problem. The sooner we get rid of this ignorant buffoon the better.
I am very tried of the lazy reporting done on the California budget crisis. You clained that both the Democrats and Republicans rejected Governor Arnold''s budget proposal. That may be true in that the Democrats did not accept it entirely, but to lump the Democratic legislaors in as equal culprits to the obstructionist Republican legislators is miss representing the nature of the budget problems in California.
After your report was filmed, the Democrats brought a plan very similar to the Governors to the floor for a vote. It was rejected by every Republican.
Your lazy reporting has left the impression that the entire legislature is unwilling to compromise and find middle ground. This is baltantly untrue and deserves to be correct on your program.
I hope CBS comes back in a few months to see what his approval rating is then, if he still has a job.
You can put a vegetable oil burning diesel engine under the hood; but the same diesel in a rational vehicle will get better mileage.
What the Hummer was about, was the Governators own chapter in the saga of the American automotive arms race. The fundamental premises is ; bigger is better. Unfortunately in reality, that is only kind of true. In a crash between a big and small vehicle it is statistically true. But in a crash between two large vehicles there is no net advantage and worse yet are the statistics for single vehicle accidents, where the larger vehicles higher center of gravity causes the vehicle to roll over. The military hummer was a difficult vehicle to roll over by design; but being nearly a full 8 feet wide makes it the worst imaginable vehicle for parking.
I hope the Hummer is one of the Governators endearing legacies and that people eventually realize just what a screwed up mess that idea was.
I just threw up in my mouth. Let me guess... you texted your post in from your iPod while driving your SUV to soccer practice?
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This is par for the course in journalism today. It''s sad and the main reason media outlets are going belly up from city to city. People are sick of ''pick and choose'' reporting or reporting only what reflects the outlet''s positions. Journalism can''t be trusted. But people still swear by it and believe if they read something...they got the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
He''s a better American than most of us.
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It does not say a person''s parents have to be citizens. Did you even read it. Let me help...
What part does Obama fail? none.
Article II. Section 1. Clause 5:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
He went as far as to create his own foreign policy. Last month, Schwarzenegger held a world summit on climate change in Beverly Hills.
He did what Washington would not do, signing an emissions declaration with government officials from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, India and China.
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How can this be? The Constitution , Art. I, Sec. 10 states "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation"
Therefore, the "declaration" signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger has absolutely no legal weight.
Arnold is one of the few forward thinking Republicans in this country.
Perhaps he can lead the party back to sanity.
"...I''m not a party servant. I''m a public servant," Schwarzenegger said.
He does serve the people of California, doing a great job of mitigating differences of opinion and policy from the left to the right for an outcome that benefits everyone.
Have Republicans become the party of NO?
NO responsibility for the colossal mistakes they''''ve made.
NO ideas.
NO solutions.
NO to the people elected to lead us out of this mess.
Arnold lied when he said he would not raise taxes, now Armold is. Arnold said he was against homosexual marriage, now he is. Arnold cannot be trusted, period.
The debate is whether or not its caused by man.
And there are scientific studies going both ways. To me it does pass the plausible test. Heck just look at a picture of the earth from space. Huge portions of the earth are lit up at night. That power has to come from somewhere. We cover a large portion of the earth it is silly to me to think that we have no impact.
And to me the green revolution creates jobs and extends the lifetime of our resources. To me a win-win situation. I would like my grandkids to go to a lightswitch and actually have something happen.
Have Republicans become the party of NO?
NO responsibility for the colossal mistakes they''ve made.
NO ideas.
NO solutions.
NO to the people elected to lead us out of this mess.
Arnold is one of the few forward thinking Republicans left.
Maybe he can lead his party back to sanity.
It is unfortunate that many are so religiously bound to their party affiliation that they cannot appreciate a public servant such as Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a leader and pushing the best interests of Americans forward in our little state of California. We are very fortunate to have him.
The party loyalists would prefer the corrupt and inept Gray Davis.
But no, it''s Bushes fault.
Radical, ignorant, anti-human environmentalists are to blame. If my house burned I would sue the sierra club and all those that fought to keep from cleaning out the old growth and brush.
Arnold is right on the environment.
Maybe he can lead his party back to sanity.
Not one penny of TAXPAYERS MONEY should go to these environmental charatans.
When the private sector brings forth the solution to any of our problems, we, the capitalist American system, should pay a tax free billion dollars for it. But not one penny for "research", which is just paying for failure. Polio is the last medical problem cured, and as soon as the government started handing out failure (research) money, we stopped curing anything. Now they try to "manage" disease while they do year after year of failure (research) on the governments dime.
Let the private sector find the cures.Pull all government research money, and watch how fast they start to cure or develop things.
See full report below:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6
%u201CSince I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly%u2026.As a scientist I remain skeptical.%u201D - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called %u201Camong the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.%u201D
Warming fears are the %u201Cworst scientific scandal in the history%u2026When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.%u201D - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
%u201CThe IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn%u2019t listen to others. It doesn%u2019t have open minds%u2026 I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,%u201D - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.
%u201CIt is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don%u2019t buy into anthropogenic global warming.%u201D - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.
%u201CEven doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.%u201D %u2013 . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.
%u201CAfter reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri''s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it''s hard to remain quiet.%u201D - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society''s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.
%u201CMany [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.%u201D - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.
%u201CCreating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense%u2026The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.%u201D - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.
%u201CCO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another%u2026.Every scientist knows this, but it doesn%u2019t pay to say so%u2026Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver%u2019s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.%u201D - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.
In addition, the report will feature new peer-reviewed scientific studies and analyses refuting man-made warming fears and a heavy dose of inconvenient climate developments. (See Below: Study: Half of warming due to Sun! %u2013Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in ''Dustbin of History'')
%u201CFor how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.
I can quote a bunch of PhD.s who think the Sun revolves around the earth or believe the earth is only 6000 years old too. Does not make it true. To get to the bottom you have to start digging yourself.
Second, to Schwarzenegger''s "flat earth" comments - there were also folks who were convinced that it was possible to build a master race by exterminating Jews, that it was possible to turn lead into gold,and that DDT was so poisionous that it had to be banned. And I could go on. That''s a line so lame and stupid that actors and Al Gore are prone to repeating it.
By the way, anyone notice that the WHO lifted the ban on spraying DDT in Africe a couple of years ago - decades after the scare had been disproven and 10''s of millions had died as a result of it''s banning?
Have you noticed the weather lately?
We''ve been setting new record lows.
Do you listen to any scientist with brains?
Or do you only believe what Al Gore says.
Here''s some recent headlines you must have missed.
Frigid Storm Closes California Freeways, Drops Snow in Malibu
Morning commute is a crawl as snow falls on Seattle; public schools close
Storm dumps nearly a foot of new snow in Flagstaff
Snow to keep falling on Inland Northwest; 5 to 8 inches expected
Snow, cold temperatures sweep into southern Rockies
Cold weather settles in for a spell in Bay Area
Winter Blast Sets Record in Las Vegas, Sets Sights on New York
Frigid Storm Closes California Freeways, Drops Snow in Malibu
System Expected To Dump 6-12 Inches Across Chicago; Ice, Sleet To The South
Stop with the Global Warming already!
Idiot...
2. I am republican and think the Govenator has been a disaster. He signed off on a 40% increase in spending over the past 4 years. A rate of growth that far outstrips population growth and inflation. Budgets built on sand that were nothing more than liar''s poker, fell apart quicker than a cheap suit. Now the Governator needs a new job, as it is clear he will soon become the whipping boy for Ca Bankruptcy.
3. Now to become some environmental or energy Czar! If he does for the environment or energy, what he has done for California, we are all in big trouble! Get ready to wipe with one sheet and go on a 3 hour bus commute daily!
As far as Global Warming (stick your head out the window-it is really Global Cooling) I have to borrow a phase from Bill (the impregnator) Clinton,
It''s the {Sun} stupid!
2. I am republican and think the Govenator has been a disaster. He signed off on a 40% increase in spending over the past 4 years. A rate of growth that far outstrips population growth and inflation. Budgets built on sand that were nothing more than liar''s poker, fell apart quicker than a cheap suit. Now the Governator needs a new job, as it is clear he will soon become the whipping boy for Ca Bankruptcy.
3. Now to become some environmental or energy Czar! If he does for the environment or energy, what he has done for California, we are all in big trouble! Get ready to wipe with one sheet and go on a 3 hour bus commute daily!
As far as Global Warming (stick your head out the window-it is really Global Cooling) I have to borrow a phase from Bill (the impregnator) Clinton,
It''s the {Sun} stupid!
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