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The Air Resources Board, by targeting flourinated refrigerants and
methane, is attacking the two substances that have done the MOST to
reduce the buildup of greenhouse gases. The switch from chlorinated
refrigerants to flourinated product, mandated by the Montreal
Protocol, is perhaps the single largest cut made to date in
greenhouse gas production, having reduced total equivalent carbon
by some six billion tons. Wind and solar, by contrast, have cut
greenhouse gases by less than a billion tons. Meanwhile, the switch
from coal to methane for electricity generation is also saving us
hundreds of millions of tons of carbon emissions. This "Draft
Strategy" is attacking our most successful policies in reducing
carbon equivalents, all in search of some unrealizable perfection
of a zero-carbon economy.

California has the highest electricity rates west of the Hudson
River. It has the highest gasoline prices anywhere in the USA. And
it has the highest poverty rate in the country. Rising fuel prices
affect the poorest of our residents the most, and the increasing
demand that we build a carbon-free economy is driving the
traditional stepping stone jobs like manufacturing out of our
state. Why must every "improvement" turn into a greater burden on
the backs of ordinary Californians? 

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21618680-our-guide-actions-have-done-most-slow-global-warming-deepest-cuts

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/05/americas-falling-carbon-dioxide-emissions