{"id":335200,"date":"2024-06-29T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T16:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335200"},"modified":"2024-06-29T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T16:02:31","slug":"californias-climate-sinkhole-accelerates-its-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335200","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s climate sinkhole accelerates its decline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"476\" data-attachment-id=\"335201\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=335201\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle.jpg?fit=1255%2C826&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1255,826\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Michael Goetz&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1564702816&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle.jpg?fit=723%2C476&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle.jpg?resize=723%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle.jpg?resize=1024%2C674&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle.jpg?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle.jpg?resize=768%2C505&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle.jpg?resize=1200%2C790&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle.jpg?w=1255&amp;ssl=1 1255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/06\/29\/californias-climate-sinkhole-accelerates-its-decline\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=californias-climate-sinkhole-accelerates-its-decline&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=californias-climate-sinkhole-accelerates-its-decline\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/petemurphy\/\">Peter Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>My eyes went westward, knowing knowing&nbsp;<\/em><em>That\u2019s the place that I love best of all\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>That\u2019s why I can hardly wait<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Open up that golden gate&nbsp;<\/em><em>California, Here I Come!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These familiar lyrics from the song \u201cCalifornia Here I Come\u201d were first sung in the 1921 Broadway musical&nbsp;<em>Bombo<\/em>. My first connection to the song was watching reruns of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SF9feVMvQgk\"><em>I Love Lucy<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;when the Ricardos and Mertzes embarked on a long road trip to Hollywood from their TV series home in New York City during season four, which aired in the mid-1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That bygone era of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk\">California Dreamin\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;is long gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The once-Golden State has been in rapid decline from being a prosperous, expanding, and destination state since the Gold Rush of 1848, two years before California joined the U.S. The relentless imposition of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/03\/15\/44342\/\">high-cost<\/a>&nbsp;climate policies is a key reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one running California\u2019s government today\u2014starting with the impervious Governor Gavin Newsom, who wants to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2022\/08\/25\/california-enacts-world-leading-plan-to-achieve-100-percent-zero-emission-vehicles-by-2035-cut-pollution\/\">solve<\/a>&nbsp;this climate crisis\u201d\u2014would ever admit cause-and-effect realities of climate policies and the state\u2019s blizzard of economic and quality-of-life problems. Such policies include&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2023\/01\/28\/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-raised-california-energy-costs-for-all\/\">restricting<\/a>&nbsp;oil and gas development and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2023\/11\/01\/californias-ev-conundrums\/\">refineries<\/a>, mandating all-electric or plug-in hybrid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cars\/hybrids-evs\/california-all-new-vehicles-sold-must-be-evs-plug-in-hybrids-a5735404160\/\">vehicles<\/a>&nbsp;by 2035, renewable energy usage requirements, including solar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.naiop.org\/2023\/05\/californias-title-24-introduces-new-solar-requirements-for-cre\/\">installation<\/a>&nbsp;on new home and building construction, no new r<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2019\/03\/16\/california-has-natural-climate-change-politicians-doing-nothing-about-it\/\">eservoirs<\/a>&nbsp;constructed in 45 years, and much&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/02\/16\/after-california-bans-plastic-bags-plastic-bag-waste-shoots-to-unprecedented-levels\/\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This failure to acknowledge the climate-change culprit in the state\u2019s ongoing demise and population exodus means there is no beginning to when these problems are reversed, which bodes ill for California\u2019s indefinite future \u2013 and potentially the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the song above indicates, it was not always this way. Following World War II, California\u2019s growth and prosperity catapulted for the next half century, displacing New York as the most populous state by 1970. The turning point downward is debatable, but the year 2003 was a telling moment. That is when A-list actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected to succeed Governor Grey Davis after the incumbent lost a recall election following a summer of brownouts from high-priced electricity shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. Schwarzenegger, himself a climate fanatic, perpetuated the bleeding. But he had star power compared to the dullard Davis, which carried him for his two terms in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then came the return of Governor Jerry Brown, one of the leading climate change obsessives of all time who implemented policies virtually without opposition in what by then was a de facto single-political party government in the nation\u2019s largest state. One of Gov. Brown\u2019s dreamscapes was the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/after-spending-54-billion-californias-bullet-train-still-going-nowhere\">bullet train<\/a>&nbsp;project from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which soon became a nightmare of litigation, futility, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/03\/14\/californias-high-speed-rail-needs-another-100-billion-thats-a-great-reason-not-to-build-it\/\">cost overruns<\/a>&nbsp;in the tens of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As California\u2019s ruling class clings to harmful climate policies, the negative impact on real people is more obvious than ever. Among the most tangible examples is the cost of gasoline. At this writing, the gallon price of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=CA\">gasoline<\/a>&nbsp;is $4.82, which is 40 percent above the national average, or more than $70.00 to fill a regular car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/electricity\/monthly\/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a\">Electricity rates<\/a>&nbsp;in California are the 2nd highest in the nation (after remote Hawaii), with the price of a kilowatt hour among all sectors at 25.8 cents, more than double the national average of 12.7 cents\/kwh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Price gaps of this magnitude are deliberate; they are&nbsp;<em>man-made<\/em>&nbsp;by California\u2019s politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other negative impacts from climate change policies go beyond the high price of energy. Government can no longer maintain deteriorating infrastructure, especially roads and bridges, as funds get diverted to the bullet train boondoggle,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/02\/08\/heavy-evs-tearing-up-california-roads\/\">gas tax<\/a>&nbsp;revenue drops by $4.4 billion from more people driving electric vehicles, or people moving out of state, especially wealthy income taxpayers (including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/celebrities-left-los-angeles-california-why-where-they-moved-2024-6?op=1\">actors<\/a>) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2021\/08\/26\/company-headquarters-leaving-california-in-unprecedented-numbers\/\">businesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With no sign from California\u2019s present-day ruling class of humility or willingness to revisit harmful climate policies (or open borders and rampant crime), California\u2019s citizens are increasingly relocating such that the Golden State\u2019s population is in decline for the first time in its 174-year history. The state\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/states\/california-population\">population<\/a>, which peaked in 2020 at 39.5 million, is now estimated to have dropped by a net of 600,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With population loss, California\u2019s delegation in Congress declined following the 2020 census and is projected to drop again after 2030. Gone are the days when population growth was increasing California\u2019s political strength in Washington, with the biggest bump during the 1950s leading to eight new congressional seats (see the aforementioned season four of&nbsp;<em>I Love Lucy<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state of California\u2019s economic condition today is a harbinger of America\u2019s near-term future, one with higher energy and overall prices and a lower quality of life resulting from climate policies \u2014 if allowed to continue under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The failure, inability, or unwillingness of California\u2019s residents to change the political class that is imposing economically destructive climate policies still provides dissenters an alternative by leaving the state, as so many have done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If America continues to follow the California climate path, there will be no place to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The once-Golden State has been in rapid decline from being a prosperous, expanding, and destination state since the Gold Rush of 1848, two years before California joined the U.S. The relentless imposition of high-cost climate policies is a key reason.<\/p>\n<p>No one running California\u2019s government today\u2014starting with the impervious Governor Gavin Newsom, who wants to \u201csolve this climate crisis\u201d\u2014would ever admit cause-and-effect realities of climate policies and the state\u2019s blizzard of economic and quality-of-life problems. Such policies include restricting oil and gas development and refineries, mandating all-electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2035, renewable energy usage requirements, including solar installation on new home and building construction, no new reservoirs constructed in 45 years, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":335201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818068,691818056,691828290,691829478,691824270,691829479],"class_list":{"0":"post-335200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-electricity-shortages","11":"tag-gallon-price-of-gasoline","12":"tag-governor-gavin-newsom","13":"tag-harmful-climate-policies","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00is-governor-newsom-offering-up-the-keys-to-californias-energy-castle.jpg?fit=1255%2C826&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1pcs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":220660,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=220660","url_meta":{"origin":335200,"position":0},"title":"Green California Governor on Skyrocketing Prices: \u201cWe\u2019re Just Getting Started\u201d","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"25\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Whatever their expectations, the next decade will be a painful test of their resolve and patience.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1225.png?fit=800%2C558&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1225.png?fit=800%2C558&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1225.png?fit=800%2C558&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1225.png?fit=800%2C558&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":405367,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=405367","url_meta":{"origin":335200,"position":1},"title":"President Donald Trump vs. Governor Gavin Newsom on Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"27\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"What a contrast. 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