Obama to Announce $3 Billion U.S. Contribution to Climate Change Fund

New York Times ^ | November 14, 2014 | By CORAL DAVENPORT and MARK LANDLER

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON — President Obama will soon announce that the United States will contribute $3 billion to a new international fund intended to help the world’s poorest countries address the effects of climate change, according to a senior administration official.

Mr. Obama is expected to make the announcement at a summit meeting of the Group of 20 industrial powers this weekend in Brisbane, Australia, on the heels of his landmark announcement this week that the United States and China will jointly commit to curbing greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

STOP Obama!

[Mouton]

Has this been appropriated?

[Mikey_1962]

President Obama will soon announce that the United States will contribute $3 billion to a new international fund intended to help the world’s poorest countries address the effects of climate change, according to a senior administration official.

Not if it isn't funded by Congress.

[G Larry]

And if it were $300 BILLION how much cooler would it be in 30 years?

(currently 9 degrees in Denver)

[MarineBrat]

Dirty scum pi***s away my hard earned country.

[Starboard]

Where does all this money come from? A couple billion here, a few hundred million there. Who authorizes all this on-the-fly spending? This open checkbook stuff has to end. But in the meantime, I’d love to know what the source of this never ending largesse is. Does anyone know?

[Fresh Wind]

What turd world tin-pot dictator will pocket this money given away by our very own tin-pot dictator?

[chris37]

Maybe he should put his own money in there since he believes in the democrat boogeyman so much...

[rktman]

LOL! Pen and phone methodology. We don’t need no steenkin’ congress. Speaking of phones, did you get a call from the lyin’ king checking in to see if you had a problem with this? No? Me neither. Kinda weird huh?

[ThomasMore]

It’s gonna get a lot cooler over the next 50 years.... NO CHARGE... free cooling period from the SUN. Then it will start to get warmer and pull us out of the mini ice age we are heading into.

[mrsmith]

No (though he may be able to move some funds previously appropriated for 'climate' change donor payoffs uses). Neither has his 'historic deal' with China any legal foundation. It's all hooey.

[realcleanguy]

Meanwhile Vet Hospitals still are not treating many vets

[Truth29]

"It is not clear whether Mr. Obama’s $3 billion pledge will come from existing sources of funding, or whether he will have to ask Congress to appropriate the money."

Of course, the source of the funding isn't identified or clear. It will be likely buried in some confusing language and multiple sources authorized by a complicit Congress. Boehner and McConnell can include it in their plans for an Omnibus CR for the full year that will also cut the legs out from under any effort to stop Obama's upcoming illegal alien amnesty Executive Order. I hope I am wrong, but the GOP doesn't have a good record in stopping Obama.

[Pearls Before Swine]

What turd world tin-pot dictator will pocket this money given away by our very own tin-pot dictator?

The one, or ones, that promise to give him sanctuary should his fortunes in the US decline.

[smokingfrog]

3 billion?

That’s about how much $ the democrats will need to steal the next presidential election.

[Mouton]

I think anyone in the ex branch who signs off on this money transfer should be brought up on anti deficiency charges. If justice objects, go for enforcement through the courts as the Congress has standing in this matter.

[Iron Munro]

Because extorting more money from little white kids not yet born is a good thing.

[Ingtar]

Of course not. In Imperial USSR money spends you.

[Ingtar]

USSA

[molson209]

Barry and Hillary promised 150 Billion a year