Posted on 02/14/2014 10:15:14 AM PST by Sub-Driver
February 14, 2014, 06:39 am Obama to pitch $1B climate change 'resilience fund'
By Laura Barron-Lopez
President Obama will pitch a new $1 billion climate change resilience fund during a visit Friday to California.
The fund, which would need to be approved by Congress, is intended to help communities dealing with negative weather that's the result of climate change.
Obama is touting the fund during a trip to California, which has been devastated by a drought that is threatening the Central Valley's agriculture production and has led Gov. Jerry Brown (D) to call on Californians to conserve water.
During a call with reporters on Thursday evening, the assistant to the president on science and technology, John Holdren, said, without any doubt, the severe drought plaguing California and a number of other states across the country is tied to climate change.
"Weather practically everywhere is being caused by climate change," Holdren said.
The administration's fund would invest in research to gather data on the impacts of climate change, help communities prepare for them and support innovative technologies and infrastructure to ready the country "in the face of a changing climate."
"Recent events have reinforced our knowledge that our communities and economy remain vulnerable to extreme weather and natural hazards," the administration said in a statement on Thursday.
Obama will propose the fund Friday after visiting with farmers in Fresno, Calif.
The new fund — separate from Obama's climate agenda announced in June — will be detailed in the president's 2015 budget, set for release next month.
While Obama has said he will use his executive authority to push his climate agenda and other policies during what he dubbed his "year of action," the president would need approval from Congress for the fund.
When asked if talk of climate change tied to extreme weather events, like California's drought, by Obama would become more frequent, Holdren said it already has been a recurring talking point for the president.
Holdren added: "You can expect the president will talk about the connection between increasing frequency in the intensity of drought and climate change on Friday" and in the future.
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That was my first thought...
incremental communist tyranny
the motor in my Toyota blew a few weeks ago, I picked up a low miles one out of a crash from a private party and had a small indeopendent mechanic do the swap
Turns out the guy was Vietnamese, when I was paying him for the job we sat down and he told me the story of his life over some coffee
he said he was captured during the final week of the fall of Saigon doing a "special forces" type raid after his 3 other buddies got killed when the raid failed. After being held captive and tortured in an undergorund torture facility for 2-1/2 years by the communist thugs, they got bored and let him out and he fled to the USA.
In summation he said that in the years that he has been in America that he loves so dearly , ( he expressed how much he loves america and the people and culture here ), he said he is sad to see the USA incrementally slide into the same mistake that South Vietnam fell into. He said he sees a defined slide into the same fools trap of communist tyranny that the people of Vietnam fell for because of a hijacked news/info media and the resulting political coup that the people fall for and it greives him.
I really learned a lot from talking to him, I understand more clearly now about the Vietnam conflict
.....This climate Change garbage is just another part of the Coup de Capitalism
DNC 2014 slush fund?
Mid-term election slush funds.
Washington is the one that cut off the water supply to the California valley. All for the supposed health of a tiny fish.
A Conservative is conservative because s/he remembers the past
You're correct. I believe all this talk is cover for a coverup bailout plan of California's debt under the guise of Global Warming.
- Nagin-Rich?
- This prison is a “Chocolate Prison”…….. PERIOD!
Par for the course.
No pun intended.....
The problem isn't Obama. He didn't write the above sentence, which is the second paragraph in the news article. He's just the latest Progressive politician.
The lying sentence above was written by Laura Barron-Lopez.
The problem is the media. In this case, The Hill, its editors, and writer Laura Barron-Lopez. These charlatan propagandists stay around long after this Obama and the next Obama.
More energy should be directed at the PERSONS of these propagandists, and less at the current politicians who come and go. Ms. Barron-Lopez should receive some feedback regarding, directed to her personally, and to her editors personally, regarding the dangerous falsehood she spreads in her article in The Hill.
Already happened.
Climate Change Hits Poor Hardest (Scientific American by Douglas Fisher, 2009)
Notice how the solution to Climate Change or too much CO2 is to burn the taxpayers’ hard earned money!
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