On governance and budget matters, Gov. Jerry Brown has earned a reputation for being reasonable and moderate. Even many Republicans describe him as the “last adult” in the Capitol, given his refusal to embrace far-reaching programs. Yet when it comes to global warming, the governor is anything but measured these days.
“God is not mocked…,” Brown said (based on his published text), quoting St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians,during his talk this week to a Vatican symposium on climate change. “And what St. Paul said in reference to God, we can also say about God’s creation. We have heard what we’re doing to that creation, what a trillion tons of CO2 and greenhouse gases will do. And that text that God is not mocked is not susceptible to compromises, to regrets. It’s inexorable, it’s absolutes.”
He also stepped up the ad hominem on his climate-policy critics — accusing them of spending millions of dollars promoting propaganda and of “falsifying the scientific record” (even though some scientists who promote global warming also have been accused of manipulating data.)
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