Filmmaker Cameron joins Schwarzenegger in climate fight

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By Rick Daysog | Sacramento Bee

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- It's a clash of big-money titans: Hollywood vs. Big Oil.

Academy Award-winning director James Cameron – whose movies have featured Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger – on Friday pledged $1 million to oppose Proposition 23, a measure that would suspend the state's landmark climate change law.

Cameron joins environmental groups, green tech advocates and financiers who already had lined up with Schwarzenegger in opposing the measure. The director's contribution signals the governor's growing role in protecting the greenhouse gas reduction law, a significant part of his policy legacy.

Schwarzenegger, who signed the climate change law in 2006 and has referred to Proposition 23 backers as "greedy Texas oil companies," starred in several Cameron productions, including the "Terminator" films and "True Lies."

The 56-year-old Cameron won an Oscar for "Titanic." His most recent film, "Avatar," offered a pro-environment message.

"Mr. Cameron is not only a filmmaker with a conscience, whose environmentally themed Avatar rocked the world box office, but he is willing to put his money where his mouth is when it comes to this important fight for California jobs and our clean energy future," said Steve Maviglio, spokesman for the No on 23 committee.

Proposition 23 aims to suspend California's greenhouse gas reduction law, AB 32, until the statewide unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. AB 32 aims to reduce carbon emissions statewide to 1990 levels by the year 2020.

Cameron's contribution comes as Proposition 23's supporters are losing the fundraising race and its key supporters – Tesoro Corp. and Valero Energy Corp. of Texas – are facing a heavy barrage of criticism from shareholder activists, California politicians and other groups.

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Radical leftists. Complete nuts jobs.

I suppose Cameron and liberal morons who believe this bullshit support things like genocide of the people of California and sterilization of all people to stop breeding. New ads coming, "abortions free at your local government office." - As that's the only way in hell you're going to get "carbon emissions" (which is bs anyway) back to "1990 levels"

The left never ceases to amaze me here.

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Yes, the scientific consensus on Global Warming is a Leftwing plot to make us all bicycle-riding commies.

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Yes, the scientific consensus on Global Warming is a Leftwing plot to make us all bicycle-riding commies.

consensus? consensus? Have you been that brainwashed now too? There is no damn consensus despite the media rhetoric and OH YEAH, the left wing blogs!

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Radical leftists. Complete nuts jobs.

I suppose Cameron and liberal morons who believe this bullshit support things like genocide of the people of California and sterilization of all people to stop breeding. New ads coming, "abortions free at your local government office." - As that's the only way in hell you're going to get "carbon emissions" (which is bs anyway) back to "1990 levels"

The left never ceases to amaze me here.

The genocide of the people of California? Where did you get this stuff? At any rate I don't think global warming will ever be an issue....................because the shock waves that the oil shortages of the near future will cause will shutdown modern economies.

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consensus? consensus? Have you been that brainwashed now too? There is no damn consensus despite the media rhetoric and OH YEAH, the left wing blogs!

Yes, the commies at the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been pimping the leftwing plot for years now....

The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change

The scientific consensus is clearly expressed in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Programme, IPCC's purpose is to evaluate the state of climate science as a basis for informed policy action, primarily on the basis of peer-reviewed and published scientific literature (3). In its most recent assessment, IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities: "Human activities ... are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents ... that absorb or scatter radiant energy. ... [M]ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations" [p. 21 in (4)].

IPCC is not alone in its conclusions. In recent years, all major scientific bodies in the United States whose members' expertise bears directly on the matter have issued similar statements. For example, the National Academy of Sciences report, Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions, begins: "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise" [p. 1 in (5)]. .....

Others agree. The American Meteorological Society (6), the American Geophysical Union (7), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) all have issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling (8).

The drafting of such reports and statements involves many opportunities for comment, criticism, and revision, and it is not likely that they would diverge greatly from the opinions of the societies' members. Nevertheless, they might downplay legitimate dissenting opinions. That hypothesis was tested by analyzing 928 abstracts, published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and listed in the ISI database with the keywords "climate change" (9).

http://www.sciencema...l/306/5702/1686

Edited October 17, 2010 by El Buscador

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Radical leftists. Complete nuts jobs.

I suppose Cameron and liberal morons who believe this bullshit support things like genocide of the people of California and sterilization of all people to stop breeding. New ads coming, "abortions free at your local government office." - As that's the only way in hell you're going to get "carbon emissions" (which is bs anyway) back to "1990 levels"

The left never ceases to amaze me here.

Speaking of nut jobs.

Edited October 17, 2010 by spookyturtle