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.

Comments

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

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