Federal government spent nearly $70 billion on "climate change activities" since 2008

Daily Caller ^ | 5/17/12 | Caroline May

[Nachum]

The Congressional Research Service estimates that since 2008 the federal government has spent nearly $70 billion on “climate change activities.”

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe presented the new CRS report on the Senate Floor Thursday to make the point that the Obama administration has been focused on “green” defense projects to the detriment of the military.

The report revealed that from fiscal years 2008 through 2012 the federal government spent $68.4 billion to combat climate change. The Department of Defense also spent $4 billion of its budget, the report adds, on climate change and energy efficiency activities in that same time period.

Inhofe, the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, argued that the expenditures are foolish at a time when the military is facing “devastating cuts.”

[Nachum]

The new 1%

[Tublecane]

Sad to have to ask for such a figure, but that’s it?

[Nachum]

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[Andrei Bulba]

EXACTLY what liberals do with government, waste money and manpower every day tilting at leftist windmills.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

[Flycatcher]

Money well spent.

So the feds control global climate now... right?

[AU72]

My wife’s step brother was a Professor of Climatology at U Cal and retired early.

[EGPWS]

70 billion of producers money to spend on convincing producers that forcibly stealing more money from them will save them and their families from a nonexistent demise.

I see torches, tar, and feathers in the future.

[Dogbert41]

“I see torches, tar, and feathers in the future”

If they are lucky the penchant for a French style revolution doesn’t take hold...

[Graewoulf]

Green Energy, hmmmmmmmmm - - - - - - . Yeah! I saw some yesterday! There it was just basking in the Sun nice and tidy on a green carpet of Bermuda Grass.

I heard a deep noise, turned around and more handy-sized dull green energy packets were falling on the green pasture.

By carefully walking around other drying packets of green energy I found one that had dried out enough to be shipped by air to 1600 Plantation Avenue, in the District of Corruption.

If any of y’all want to send Obama some of these green energy packets from a pasture near you, just make sure that all the water is out of these green energy packets, so that the TSA screeners at the airports will approve and then ship your packets by fossil fueled Jet planes.

The nice thing about these magnificent meadow muffins of green energy is that they last a lifetime if you don’t get them wet.

Yep, all ya gotta do is add water! Well, be careful to not let them hit a fan, or a fan of green energy.

BTW, I changed my mind: the last idea is probably a good idea - - - .

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping.

We have seen the dollar figure before from JoNova's website.

But that is an Austrailian website...so more verification is good.

[Chode]

and America takes another one in the........

[Marine_Uncle]

Senator Inhofe got little support during that meeting as I watched it unfold on the CSPAN channel. In fact after his brief speech using terms like "green test tube", the demo side countered with questions to the panel of generals, and they sided with the demo side of the argument.
Inhofe did not return to the committee meeting. I don't know if he listened to what the generals and admirals had to say, in say a back room, but they all suggested programs they felt where actually going to save tax payer money, where in effect being carried out.
I sort of felt bad for Sen. Inhofe in this case, his none effective statements. He did not score any points during his brief stay in that meeting.