{"id":18372,"date":"2012-01-18T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=18372"},"modified":"2012-01-18T14:08:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:08:54","slug":"jerry-brown-braves-the-big-chill-in-talking-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2012\/01\/18\/jerry-brown-braves-the-big-chill-in-talking-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Brown Braves the Big Chill in Talking Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Governor Jerry Brown spent much of his State of the State address on California's environmental goals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a speech described by one Orange County Republican as “vintage Jerry,” Governor Jerry Brown tried to re-conjure the image of California as a can-do state. Brown also devoted a large portion of his annual State of the State address to environmental and climate-related topics.<\/p>\n

Showing none of the climate timidity that has overtaken national politics, Brown declared that, “fossil fuels, particularly foreign oil, create ever rising costs to our economy and to our health.” By contrast, President Obama avoided using the word “climate” even once in last year’s State of the Union message, and gave global warming only the slightest nod in a recent address<\/a> to science-friendly staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n

While job creation was at the top of Brown’s eight-point list of New Year’s resolutions, it was quickly followed by:<\/p>\n