Gov. Newsom Making Illegal Climate Change Compact With China

Following the discovery of the Illegal Chinese COVID Lab discovery in Reedley, which possibly could be CCP Biowarfare Lab, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he was partnering with a province in China to fight climate change.

“Not a joke” as President Joe Biden would say.

Why China?

Gov. Newsom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) August 3rd which “outlines five areas of cooperation between California and Hainan: cutting air pollution, developing and implementing climate adaptation and carbon neutrality plans, advancing clean energy, accelerating zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and driving nature-based solutions.”

There is one big problem – well actually several big problems:

1. The United States Constitution says, “No state shall enter into any treaty.” It’s pretty clear that Gov. Newsom does not have the legal authority to enter into any compact with any foreign nation or province.

2. China emissions exceed all developed nations combined. So any agreement with China to “cut air pollution” is ludicrous.

“Working together with global partners like the province of Hainan, we stand a chance to address the existential crisis of climate change by cutting pollution and transitioning to clean energy,” Gov. Newsom said.

Newsom has done this before, as did his predecessor. And notably, these agreements with foreign governments rarely produce anything useful other than travel opportunities for politicians… and regulations on taxpayers.

In May 2022 Gov. Gavin Newsom and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (Ardern has since resigned) signed a “pledge” agreeing to help fight climate change together by working to put millions more electric vehicles on the road. I’m guessing if we call it a “pledge,” it doesn’t count as a treaty, compact or MOU?

As the Globe asked at the time, “Why? New Zealand is over 6,700 miles from California and continents away. What is the relevance?”

“Later is too late to address climate change, and California is taking aggressive steps to bolster the clean economy while reducing pollution in our communities – but we can’t do it alone,” Gov. Newsom said.

In October 2022, Gov. Newsom, Oregon Governor Kate Brown, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and British Columbia Premier John Horgan “doubled down” on Thursday and signed a new Statement of Cooperation, another climate agreement – the Pacific Coast Collaborative – “recommitting” the Western region “to climate action.”

“In California, we punch above our weight when it comes to climate action – but our actions can only do so much without the rest of the world at our side,” Gov. Newsom said. Newsom called what is taking place, “the Great Awakening,” noting that “something is happening… the extreme heat, extreme drought, the extreme weather… we have all experiences this whipsaw back and forth.”

Back in June 2008, the leaders of Alaska, British Columbia, California, Oregon, and Washington signed the Pacific Coast Collaborative Agreement, amounting to a “compact,” which is prohibited between states without Congressional approval.

But that has never deterred California’s governors. And Gov. Newsom’s administration just changed the name of the deal from “compact” to “pledge,” to “Memorandum of Cooperation” to “Memorandum of Understanding.”

In October 2013, California Gov. Jerry Brown, together with the Governors of Oregon and Washington and the British Columbia Premier, signed the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, “to align climate change policies and promote clean energy.”

Gov. Brown’s Pacific Coast Collaborative linked with the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange (WCX), a compact between California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, formed  in 2013 to promote “the type of new thinking necessary to solve the West Coast’s infrastructure crisis,” according to Brown. And the WCX was linked at the time  to the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative.

“California isn’t waiting for the rest of the world before it takes action on climate change,” said Gov. Brown. “Today, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia are all joining together to reduce greenhouse gases.”

This sounds eerily familiar to Gov. Newsom’s “Later is too late to address climate change.”

Newsom’s latest Climate change announcement featured California’s 2022 “enacted aggressive climate measures with a sweeping package of legislation backed by a multi-billion-dollar record investment,” The California Climate Commitment which “cuts pollution, protects Californians from big polluters, accelerates the state’s transition to clean energy, and expands economic opportunities for all Californians.”

The California Climate Commitment involves:

What these agreements, compacts and Memorandum of Understandings really do is allow unelected agency directors and boards to make law without the Legislature under the thin guise of oppressive and business-killing regulations – more electric vehicles, more public transportation, “walking, biking and adaptation projects,” offshore wind projects, affordable housing development near transit –  you get it.

How will this be accomplished?