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Governor Moonbeam Admits Global Warming Won’t Flood LAX Airport

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On May 19, 2014 @ 2:49 pm In The Point | 4 Comments

The science is settled and completely imaginary.

An aide to Jerry Brown confirmed Wednesday that the governor was wrong when he said global warming would eventually cause rising seawater to inundate Los Angeles International Airport.

Citing new studies, Brown called attention to the global warming issue on Tuesday, saying a predicted 4-foot rise in sea level within the next 200 years could force the relocation of LAX at a cost of billions of dollars.

But various sources say that the nation’s third-busiest airport — bordered by the Pacific Ocean — has elevations ranging from 108 feet to 126 feet and is protected by higher coastal bluffs on the west side.

“The governor misspoke about LAX,” said Evan Westrup, a spokesman for the Brown administration.

If people are using LAX two centuries from now, we’ll probably have bigger problems as a society than a 4 foot sea level rise. A rise that isn’t actually coming because Warmist predictions about the future have been as accurate as crystal ball readers.

At least a 200 year prediction is safer than a 2 year prediction because it’s hard to disprove.

“If that happens, the Los Angeles airport is going to be underwater. So is the San Francisco airport, ” Brown said, adding that the now-closed San Onofre nuclear power plant — directly on the beach south of San Clemente — would be submerged as well.

“You’re going to have to move all that,” he said. “That’s billions, if not tens of billions” of dollars.

That’s okay. At the current rate of inflation that will be only be a few hundred million. And I wouldn’t exactly count on the dollar holding up after Jerry Brown’s comrades keep running up debt like crazy.

While Jerry Brown is rounding the talk shows to cry doom… in two-hundred years, he’s delivering budgets that are as sustainable as a forest fire.

The May revision is an update of the governor’s budget released in January. Its extra $2.4 billion brought in by revenue from personal income taxes allows the governor to pay down $11 billion in debt, fully fund the teachers’ pension system and add $10 billion to the fund from Proposition 98, a voter-approved measure guaranteeing state money for public education.

He’s also facing rising healthcare costs as more Californians than expected sign up for the state’s healthcare program for the poor, Medi-Cal.

Anthony Cava, spokesman for the California Department of Health Care Services, said officials originally estimated 1 million to 2 million people would join Medi-Cal by the end of 2014. But by the end of March, the state already had registered 1.9 million new enrollees, and there’s an additional backlog of 900,000 applicants.

That’s $2.4 billion in taxes being dumped into the endless maw of CALPERS and the teachers’ unions. And Medi0Cal is, predictably, surpassing projetions. But the vultures are still hungry.

Vanessa Aramayo, director of the California Partnership, said the governor is also ignoring the needs of the state’s 2.2 million children who live in poverty.

“We cannot afford to not reinvest in programs like CalWORKS and subsidized child care,” Aramayo said. “The governor’s decision to not invest in programs that have been proven to produce positive outcomes is shortsighted.

It’s spending. Not investing. But if you want a nice round 200 number

In total, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office said the state’s leaders have left unaddressed roughly $200 billion in long-term costs, mostly retirement benefits for public employees.

And it won’t come due in 200 years. And when it does, everyone would welcome a mere flood.

 


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