As California Governor Jerry Brown burnishes his climate change credentials on his crusade to Rome for talks at the Vatican, his adoring California media are ignoring what he is really doing.
"Absent a seat at the negotiating table, Brown has a role organizing state and local officials from around the world who are increasingly seeking to craft their own climate deals, independent of what their nations' leaders do," CalMatters wrote.
Brown has conflated the Trump administration's disinterest in pushing faux climate change policies with a lack of leadership.