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91 A motion warns of utmost vigor successful Death Valley, California, U.S., July 11, 2021.
Bridget Bennett | Reuters
Speaking during a vigor question that brought California temperatures into the triple digits successful overmuch of the state, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said connected Wednesday that "all of our models person been thrown out" erstwhile it comes to clime change.
"We've ne'er seen this benignant of utmost vigor for this extended play of time," Newsom said from the Code Conference successful Beverly Hills. "And truthful we person thrown each of the aged books and rules and regulations out, and we are moving successful a wholly antithetic mindset successful bid to enactment a measurement up of Mother Nature." In Northern California, respective cities saw grounds highs connected Wednesday.
Newsom said the vigor is putting accent connected the vigor strategy during highest hours erstwhile galore Californians travel location from enactment and crook connected their aerial conditioners. He said alerts advising residents to beryllium cautious of their vigor usage are what "saved us" from blackouts, on with vigor imports.
Newsom said the authorities volition request to support improving its efforts to combat and woody with clime change. He said updates the authorities has made wrong the caller past are what allowed it to debar galore blackouts this clip around.
"Had we not done what we've done successful the past 2 years we would person had rolling blackouts implicit the past week," Newsom said. "Almost without question."
He pointed to accrued artillery storage, extended lifetimes of backup generators and the state's committedness of $53.9 cardinal toward clime alteration solutions.
Newsom besides took purpose astatine Texas' divergent attack to energy, which helium characterized arsenic having a greater willingness to trust connected fossil fuels.
"I'm not funny successful the decease spiral that states similar Texas are," Newsom said. "They're doubling down connected stupid."
"It's ironic that Governor Newsom is attacking the nationalist person successful vigor the aforesaid time helium hardly avoided statewide blackouts," Renae Eze, property caput for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, said successful a statement.
Despite criticizing reddish authorities governors similar Florida's Ron DeSantis, who is thought to beryllium a apt contender for the Republican statesmanlike nomination, Newsom said helium has nary plans to tally for president himself.
"I person nary interest," helium said.
