Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Newsom’s climate false alarms

Gavin Newsom is raising alarms on climate change again"and getting basic facts wrong. The California governor vows to sue the federal government over the Trump administration's repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 "endangerment finding," the main legal basis under the Clean Air Act for mandating reductions in carbon-dioxide emissions. Mr. Newsom claims the reversal will trigger "more deadly wildfires" and "more extreme heat deaths." Age-adjusted heat-related death risk in California has risen modestly in recent decades"enough to account for 90 additional annual deaths likely linked to higher temperatures. But he omits the other side: Warming has helped reduce age-adjusted cold-related deaths by more than 5,000 a year. Citing only the tiny heat increase while ignoring the large decrease in cold-related deaths is misleading.

Posted by BellRinger at 11:24 AM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

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The paywall has a drop down tab top right that allows you to bypass it and read the op Ed.

#1 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-18 11:25 AM

"Gavin Newsom is raising alarms on climate change again"and getting basic facts wrong"
Posted by BellRinger

Did you get basic facts wrong when you claimed that Howard Schultz paid "a lot" in income tax to a state that doesn't have income tax?

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-03-18 01:32 PM

#2. How are state taxes relevant 5o this thread, ankle biter?

Try commenting on topic. Just once.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-18 01:46 PM

I offered just as much commentary on the topic of this post as you did, which is nothing.

You obviously think state taxes are relevant to something since you were commenting on them the other day so I figured I'd just ask you again to clarify how much is "a lot" with regard to Howard Schultz's Washington state income taxes?

#4 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-03-18 01:52 PM

"Warming has helped reduce age-adjusted cold-related deaths by more than 5,000 a year."

So global warming is real?

There's no way Republicans believe global warming is real.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-18 01:53 PM

"Warming has helped reduce age-adjusted cold-related deaths by more than 5,000 a year."

Not in California it didn't.

In 2023, 166 Californians died from hypothermia, double the number who died in 2015.
www.capradio.org

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-18 01:54 PM

" "Warming has helped reduce age-adjusted cold-related deaths by more than 5,000 a year."

Not in California it didn't."

Is it global warming / global climate change' or is it California climate change'. The author of the embedded op ed addresses that logical fallacy.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-18 01:58 PM

---- off -------. You're a lying little bitch

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-19 02:14 PM

What a shocking development. Rupert's "prestige" rag comes out --------- climate change and dissing Gavin.
And the sun will set in the West.

#9 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-19 07:54 PM

What a shocking development. Rupert's "prestige" rag comes out --------- climate change and dissing Gavin.
And the sun will set in the West.

#9 | Posted by morris

Dude, climate change may be real, but Newsom blaming in on the Palisades fire is ridiculous.


Did you get basic facts wrong when you claimed that Howard Schultz paid "a lot" in income tax to a state that doesn't have income tax?
#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce

One is premeditated, and repeated often when they know the reality, the other apologized, and you're a dick for beating someone after they apologized.

#10 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-19 08:01 PM

Newsom is deflecting everything wrong in the state he governs.

1. LA Fires
2. High Speed Rail
3. Gas prices
4. Fraud
5. Butterfly Bridge.
6. Billionaires Tax Suggestions.
7. illegal immigrant healthcare - on again off again ...
8. NDA's for contractors working on WAy over budget Capitol building
9. Not his fault, but LAX people mover for World Cup.... delayed over budget.
10. Medicaid fraud
11. Hospice fraud - where is the State government on these fraud issues?

You get the sense there is nothing in the public sphere that is going well for California. The list is almost endless, and spending has increased so much faster than the population/revenue.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-19 08:09 PM

---- off idiot. You're nothing but a clown.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-19 08:45 PM

Flagged newsworthy by fortfisher

The kiss of intellectual death.

#13 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-03-19 09:06 PM

The kiss of intellectual death.

We don't have Boaz, but that fortfisher idiot is still here? Moderation confuses me sometimes.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-19 09:16 PM

It's been in the 90s here in Los Angeles for the last week.

I can't remember a time it was ever so hot here in winter.

Which makes sense since coverage keeps referring to it as a record setting heat wave.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-20 01:41 PM

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