Health and Environment News from California

Two recent, short posts from Cato on legislation in California:

• The Great Wait, by Michael Tanner, which includes some good numbers on wait lists in countries with "single-payer" health care systems
• California Dreamin', by Patrick Michaels, about the new law in California "restricting the emissions of carbon dioxide to 1990 levels by the year 2020." Which will do a what exactly? Why, "According to scientists from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, the amount of warming these reductions would prevent by the year 2060 is 0.05 degrees Celsius."

UPDATE on 9/15: Michaels today had another post with more interesting climate data and commentary on the new California law.