Establish an annual license fee based on the weight of the vehicle. Heavier vehicles usually burn more fuel, produce more emissions and do more damage to the roads than lighter vehicles. Such a fee would encourage conservation while preserving ones free choice if they really need to drive an 8,000 bound vehicle, they'll just have to pay something toward the consequential damage they cause.

Cool! I will simply say to the salesman, "Take me to No. 1, please!"

This global warming thing is out of hand. It will drive what people will be able to do all in the name of "save the planet". We can actually see cleaner skies in comparison to the 1970, if you are at least 50 years old or so. We are not hotter or colder than we were, and the ocean levels are not rising to catistrophic levels as some would have you believe. But let them have their way, and you'll not even be able to drive to work or b-b-q in your own back yard.

...global warming deniers will be required to wear special patches on their clothing. Sound familier?

Wow, what idiots. Everybody is drinking the global warming kool aid. This is a theory based on non-science (or nonsense). First of all, nobody can measure the temperature of the earth. This is like trying to count grains of sand. Where do you measure? How many points do you measure? How often? How do you know what those points measured 100 years ago, or 1000, or 10,000? Impossible! You can't know this - so how can anyone know that the earth is warming or cooling or staying the same? I remember that the same people who cry global warming today were warning us in the 70s and 80 of a coming ice age.

Secondly, CO2 IS HARMLESS!!! Plants take in CO2 like we use oxygen. CO2 is good for plants (I thought that we were trying to encourage more plant growth). There is not enough CO2 in existence to do anything to the climate. Carbon MONOXIDE is the poisonous one, not carbon dioxide.

Thirdly, why don't you ever hear people complain about how dirty and horrible the environment is in the third world and Communist countries? Why is it only Western civilization that is at fault?

Lastly, someone is making money off of this (Al Gore, carbon credits, go green, etc.), and the state gets to create more rules, and employ more bureacrats. This is what it is all about. What a racket! There is only one conclusion that a sane person can come to about global warming: there is no shortage of gullible fools running around.

-Matt
Cleveland OH

Here we go you will see, soon they going to tell you , most pay more because of your sticker to re-new your plates. People noting we do will help, in less we go back to the stone age, OK The real solution to the problem is get the Whack enviromental out of the pics and let the real scinces tske care of things, 1000 years from now when only plants and animal are around , no one will care.

We need to update our definition of what constitutes a religion. New-age religions like anthropogenic global warming are finding their way into laws that other, traditional religions are barred from. I think we should get rid of the idea that religions have to be supernatural. The environmental religion operates emotionally almost exactly like Christianity does, with people abasing themselves before various pointless rituals in order to achieve ritual purity. I really don't care if a given stupidity makes supernatural claims or not; forcing it on me is a reprehensible subversion of our most important founding principle: liberty. And of course, as always, the motivation is money.

I imagine that all this will one day have to be challenged in court. If the gov't is going to impose a tax based on illeged global warming or "greenhouse gas" emission, they should need to prove all this in court beyond reasonable doubt. Of course, they cannot.

I am the Viceroy!

This strikes me as a good idea. It gives consumers more information about the future environmental impact of their purchase, and for many (though certainly not all) of them, it is something that they want to take into consideration when picking a car. Anything that allows a consumer to make a more educated and informed decision is good with me.

If global warming is man made, then why is it that in the extreme northern latitudes, they are finding frozen tropical plants under the ice and snow melt when global populations practically non-existant? Why are they also finding wooley mammoths frozen solid with plant material in their mouths and stomachs? Why did US Parks Rangers patrolling the upper Missouri River that is down over 50 feet in some gorge sections find 200+ year old indian villages along the banks that have been under water since white men arrived? Why are remains of ancient settlements being found in areas of Lake Okeechobee that were underwater since white men arrived? If the north polar ice cap is supposedly going to be ice free this year, why are the coastal cities not underwater like we were told they would be if the ice caps melted? Why are the other planets in our solar system experiencing global warming if they are uninhabited? Why has the CO2 level continued to climb that last ten years, but the average temperature has fallen? There are 60% more trees in the state of Minnesota than there were when the settlers arrived and the trees are responsible for increased humidity levels causing more clouds; should they be cut down? If CO2 levels in cities like LA are higher, shouldn't there be a corresponding increase in temperature even if you factor out the buildings? Since the weather has gotten warmer in northern latitudes, doesn't that open up more farm land? I have a dozen or so more, but the bottom line is that yes, we should take care of the environment by recreating our infrastucture and transportation systems to use environmentally friendly energy sources. However, the over 95% of the population cannot afford the cost to convert as they are barely able to make ends meet in the current system. FOrcing him to do so will relegate man back to an 1890's existance and bring more problems than if we invested a fraction of the trillions now being talked about in energy taxes into making it so that man can adapt to the changes.

I think calling it a "Warming Score" is wrong. It wrongfully links global warming with high CO2 levels. We know that both global temperatures and CO2 levels are high, but because of the lack of data, there is no proof that one causes the other. Why not just call it what it is - a "Pollution Score".

Despite this small objection, I think there is nothing wrong with the requirement itself. The government should promote a cleaner environment regardless of whether a polluted environment causes climate change.

I suppose it will be as accurate as the 'EPA Mileage Estimates' sticker? It looks like Cali just opened itself up to a new way to take payoffs from the automobile manufacturers for a favorable 'score'.

Some of my ancestors headed west in the 1840's and L.A. still has no real mass-transit system.

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THIS is yet another example of EXACTLY why California is losing population, jobs and is bankrupt. Why the hell would law makers with all the serious problems California is facing take the time to mandate car makers put a stupid sticker that is suppose to rate how bad the car will effect 'global warming'. Human caused global warming is not even a fact. All scientists do NOT agree global warming is human caused and the earths core hasn't even changed at all since 1998.

This is just obviously yet another attempt to standardize global warming as a fact by the left so they can then begin the 'global warming' tax on EVERYTHING.

Man made global warming is a religion to these idiots who have nothing better to do in life and want to feel like they are actually contributing somehow in this work WITHOUT doing anything.

That's it! Evertime I see another idiot in his hybrid with a 'go green' sticker I'm taking an aerosol can out the window of my car and unloading into the air, just to even things out. "Go green" people are the same types who put honor student stickers on their cars. Get a fricking life.

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Meanwhile China and other third world countries do as they want. 1/3 of San Francisco Bay area air is polluted not from American cars, but Asian cars overseas. We can act as pious as we want here with our feelgood measures...but we do nothing on the economic policy to punish these factory countries from spewing toxins into the environment like the Yangtsee river. Ill keep driving my car without guilt put on me by whiny liberal aging babyboomers withx

The sillier this whole "global warming" hysteria becomes, to more likely people are to finally see the lunacy of it all and ultimately reject the entire premise that man can somehow impact the climate. We are but a pimple on a flea's butt when compared to the power of the sun and its ability to determine the earth's climate. Of course let's not forget that George Bush is ultimately responsible for global warming, the earthqauakes in China, floods in the Midwest. Holy sh!t Batman. Don't you think with those kinds of superpowers as ruler of the universe you'd think he could bring gas prices down or find Bin Laden.

And the truly pathetic part of all of this is... I wonder how much harm they did to the planet to: 1) Print the paper on which this ridiculous new law was written, 2) Have people read it on the internet, thereby using up more energy from "environmentally unfriendly" power plants (to say nothing of how many column inches will be used up in newspapers gleefully reporting this story), and 3) Make the stickers which will be going on the cars.

This whole is wrong on a number of levels, but since most of them have already been pointed out, I see no benefit in going over them and making you read it again. That would be like, well, putting a sticker on your car forcing you to once again be reminded of somebody's pseudo-science.

Who defines what the parameters are to be? Who decides what / whose data to use to define the parameters? Who decides who are the 'deciders'?

Norway's technical university says a single farting moose annually puts out the equivalent 'green house gases' (so called) of a car driving 13,000 kilometers! Get rid of all the moose? Or just put a tag on 'em?

BTW, the biggest decider of actual climate change is water vapor. The biggest contributor is actually methane (37 times more than C02) - and that's mostly produced by cattle, sheep, moose, deer, etc. (UN study results).

And don't forget volcanos - one good volcanic eruption puts out more than everything else combined!

What a joke.

Soon you will have your global warming score tattooed on your forehead... Meanwhile the big corporations pollute like crazy off shore, over seas... They want you to guilt yourself so, you won't notice what they are up to...

This is the first step in creating another tax and the seizure of more control over the population by the left in this country. When will the "green" movement finally admit that their real agenda is power of the people.

Oh Yes we had Global Cooling and then next ice age about 25 Years Ago.

Acid Rain, Radon Gas etc etc its all Bull Poo Poo…. Freon didn’t cause a issue it’s all a total hoax and a new way to collect a new revenue stream

Until someone can definitively prove CO2 emissions actually cause a greenhouse effect which leads to Global Warming, labeling requirements are an intrusion based on bunk science. Man made CO2 emissions almost tripled from 1940-79 yet global temperatures during that time period declined to the point the media cried "the Next Ice Age" is nigh. In the last ten years global averages have remained flat while again industry and emissions have increased significantly. That's 50 years of the 105 years of reliable global temperature readings that CO2 emissions do not correspond with temperature rises. You can't chalk that up to an anomaly.

Global Warming scare, threatens common sense more than anything. Unlike real health hazards such as asbestos in buildings, mercury in our water supply and flat top mining ruining water tables, man made Global Warming has not been proven and is not a scientific consensus. According to Gallup 55 percent of scientist polled believed man made GW is not happening, 15 percent believed it was while the rest remained undecided. So why all the hype? It drives donations, grants, ratings and votes.

The Global Warming scare will go down as the scam of the century alongside other misguided movements such as the banning of DDT and Eugenics.

More California asininity. CA used to be the 5th largest economy in the world. Now its the 7th. Soon it will be 14th or 15th or less. This stupidity is why businesses continue to exit CA. Liberal ingnorance of realities used to annoy me but more and more they disgust me because thier insistance on damaging us economically so they can FEEL like they are doing something useful is costing us big time. California will probably be the last US state of ignorant narcisists that will succumb to the growing and overwhelming evidence that this entire man made global warming farce is a complete haox. The sun controls the temp and the water vapor regulates, filters and disperses it. Its really quite simple. What it means boys and girls is that when the sun is hotter then the earth is hotter and when its cooler the earth is cooler as well. Not a tough concept to understand except for a Liberal. Day after day a growing cadre of thousands of scientist continue to release data that shows what a hoax this is. You people who are pushing this are going to look like the biggest idiots and/or crooks in the world. Instead of scientists these people should be more properly labeled grifters because thats what they are.

Who in their right mind would live in CA? This is yet another example of politicians thinking they know best. When are people going to realize the market will dictate when we switch to alternative fuels. When that becomes feasible, it will happen. In the mean time, passing all these feel good tree hugging measures only make things more expensive for the tax payer. If you want these asinine rules, MOVE to Europe.