Jerry Brown: To Stop Droughts, We Have To Control What Californians Allowed To Do

The governor called for regulations on how residents ‘live, how they build their homes, and what kind of vegetation is allowed to grow’

Jerry Brown Slams Republicans Over California Wildfires (National Review Online)

California governor Jerry Brown took the opportunity of the San Diego wildfires to assail Republicans over global warming dissent, noting that the state is now “in the third year of a very dry season.”

“The state’s climate appears to be changing, the scientists tell us that definitely,” the three-term governor told George Stephanopolous on ABC’s This Week Sunday. He added that the state’s future would be “radically different” from its historic past.

“There’s virtually no Republican who accepts the science that is virtually unanimous,” Brown said. “There is no scientific question. There’s just political denial for various reasons best known to those people who are in denial.”

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