California and climate change

Think California should catch at least a bit of a break on the climate-change front because the state’s environmental policies, university research and private industry have been on the cutting edge of combating the peril?
No, you didn’t really think that, because informed people know that both local weather and the climate in general are global in nature, influenced by greater factors than our own state’s greenhouse-gas output.
And it’s not, as ill-informed cynics say, t