Arjay you said "Can people be that stupid as not see through this scam?"

It is a brilliantly thought out scam with the backing of some prominent people. Thats a very difficult thing for the average person to question or resist.

Well said SPQR; Bugsy is like all pro-AGW believers, reduced to facile irrelevancies, untruths, moralising edicts and general assumptions of superiority and faux outrage.

California is a basket case because of green dreams:

http://www.newgeography.com/content/001712-the-golden-state%E2%80%99s-war-itself

California is also a template for the hypocrisy of the green dreaming; banning coal yet importing power from coal sources in other states:

http://www.pnm.com/systems/4c.htm

And did I mention it was a basket case in 2009:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-02-19-california-hurting_N.htm

And still is today as SPQR has shown but it is worth repeating:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/31923599/

8th largest economy in the world says Bugsy; without the Greens it would be the biggest. Perhaps Bugsy would like to tell us how the EU is travelling right now. If you want to stuff up an economy just go green.