Governor Schwarzenegger and Senator McCain on Global Warming: UPDATED

Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator (and Presidential candidate) John McCain will hold a new conference today about California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependent on fossile fuels in order to do something about the problem of global warming.

Schwarzenegger signed the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) last year which established clear targets as California law: 2000 emission levels by 2010, to 1990 levels by 2020 and to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
This year he signed something to reduce the carbon intensity of California’s passenger vehicle fuels before 10% in 2020.

The news conference will be webcasted live at the Governor’s website. It starts at 11 AM PT.

UPDATE
Okay, I just watched the news conference. Let me first congratulate California for being America’s leader in this regard. California is dedicated to fight global warming.

Governor Schwarzenegger, rightfully, pointed out that his plans / California’s laws in this regard, will ensure a better environment in the future, a growing economy and it’s also good for national security: less dependent on foreign countries.

The most interesting aspect of the news conference, though, was, of course, the questions from the press. Especially what Senator McCain had to say. He said that Bush’s “record on global warming is terrible”, that he’s happy that Bush is now “talking about it” but that it’s “long overdue”. The press also asked about Iraq, of course. He referred to it as a “trainwreck” and said that “I stand by my comment about secretary Rumsfeld by the way”. When asked about the British he said that he “wished they would stay longer” but that he understands why Blair decided to withdraw (some of the) troops this year.

When a journalist asked Governor Schwarzenegger whether today’s conference means that he endorses Senator John McCain, McCain hastily and ironically said “I think this is an endorsement, yeah”. Governor Schwarzenegger however, pointed out that this conference is about global warming and not about national politics / the 2008 campaign.