Due to other obligations, I won’t be able to watch, (see the live feed link below) but I hope that WUWT readers will watch (if you can stomach it) and make notes in comments below to see where it deviates from the posted plan available here.
From the White House PR:
Today at 1:55 pm EST, the President will speak on his plan to reduce carbon pollution and prepare our country for the impacts of climate change.
You can watch the speech live at whitehouse.gov/live.
Following the remarks, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy & Climate Change Heather Zichal will host a session of Office Hours on Twitter to answer your questions about the plan President Obama announced. Ask a question using the hashtag #WHChat, and follow the Q&A live, starting at 3:00 pm EST.
BTW the Twitter hashtag for this is #Obamaclimate
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I think I’ll give it a miss. I can’t afford to throw my lap top through the window.
Due to a low threshold of nausea, I won’t be able to watch it, either.
…I’m out of Ativan
I’m another no-show: that man makes me want to puke.
I’m not sure whether it’s the lies, the “Transforming America” agenda, or the fact he’s clueless without his teleprompter.
Three strikes and he’s out.
I read the document and think the only important residual of the speech is that the “climate” for climate will be a bit improved and it will be easier to get traction for good programs. So that is a good step in itself. But the report will irritate everyone. The righties will hate it for the fact that he is doing anything, and the lefties will hate it because he isn’t doing enough. It scales up fossil fuel research and investment in “clean coal” lauds the switch from coal to natural gas as a “bridge fuel” and endorses “safe nuclear.”
Too much of the plan is about adaptation. “Get out the white flags mother, we’re going to WAR!”
Why doesn’t he put forward the aspiration to entirely decarbonize the economy as necessary to slow (or stop) sea level rise? Why doesn’t he call on Congress to act to implement a carbon tax with redistribution of the proceeds to the new low-carbon technologies? Why not initiate a HUD loan assistance program to put solar on 10 million roofs by 2020? Why not allocate Department of Energy funding to wind and geothermal projects? Why not a special SBA small business grants and loans program aimed at helping emerging businesses such as ours? We need stimulus in this sector.
Oh well. When the people lead the government will follow, so lets get to work.
If you like #Obamacare,
you’ll love #Obamaclimate.
Not just 1/6th of the economy, but the whole shebang.
We clearly have an idiot running the asylum.
One thing is for sure, we’re being lied to. Some guy’s wrote a book about it. http://www.wnd.com/disinformation/
Nobody reads books anymore otherwise we wouldn’t continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. Hell, legislators today don’t even read Bills before they vote on them.
We should write Obama and his gang a note and tell him we hold them responsible for the consequences of these insane policies.
Transforming America = Destroying America
People won’t be watching in droves.
I tried (to watch); I bailed.
To David Finnegan – Why not reduce CO2 to below 200. ppm { not possible } and we can kill all
all living things and save the planet. Of course if we were able to drop CO2 below 200-300ppm humans would stop breathing . Below that plant life would start dying – but anything for the greater good . If that doesn’t work why not declare O2 a pollutant .
Don’t want to boost his ratings – I’ll come to WUWT for a synopsis after his televised shitefest.
Dang! I have to wash my hair!
His war on coal will be a war on any hope of a recovery. Kiss the economy goodbye.
You gotta love the way he keeps whiping his forehead with a handkerchief. It’s just so globally warm in georgetown.
Here come the rolling black-outs….
I think President Obama is pushing this now for the reason German prof Ulrich Beck laid out as the real purpose of all the AGW and climate change hype. To switch the rule systems governments must live by as supposedly necessitated by this global crisis. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/we-are-at-the-historical-stage-for-the-emergence-of-one-particular-new-kind-of-person/
He does want a Metamorphosis of the State. I think that’s why there has been such a hyperbolic overreaction to this morning’s overturn of part of the Voting Rights Act. The DOJ was using misinterpretations of the Civil rights laws to take away state electoral supervision ability.
Is the face-wiping scripted? He’s perspiring more than Tricky Dicky.
For you that aren’t listening let me sum it up for you.
“We are going to spend your money until our hands turn green from all that cash. Our plan is to spend so much money that the economy will eventually collapse under debt and the U.S. will then emit as much CO2 as Angola.”
He’s got his sleeves rolled up, and the hanky is out to wipe his brow. I’ve been listening for about 10 minutes–longest of my life. I swear he spoke of carbon accumulating in the atmosphere–not CO2, but carbon. I wish we wouldn’t speak about things he doesn’t understand. Makes him sound like the Goreablabber.
He is proposing a lot of infrastructure projects to protect against increasingly hostile weather. They are needed to protect against increasingly idiotic coastal development–oh, sorry, he didn’t say that, my mind wandered off.
There is a lot of sleight of hand. In speaking aboput wind energy, he spoke about the Germans taking the lead in clean energy, but he didn’t actually say wind. I suppose he just forgot about Germany building new coal fired power plants. What’s this nonsense about him having met with young people in Turkey, and finding them being most concerned with climate change? Recent news suggests otherwise.
Can’t see the crowd, but its tepid applause from what seems like a small group of enthusiastic supporters–his mention of new EPA head suggests these are enviros and EPA types..
He’s making the case that all this green energy is going to make new jobs, new jobs, new jobs; but also mentioning that we are going to spend a lot of money protecting communities that are unsettled by this new economy.
Finally he wants to eliminate tax breaks for oil companies. What can I say? New pablum same as the old pablum.
Obama says Tricky started the EPA. That makes sense.
RE: KeystoneXL pipeline State Department approval analysis
“Our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution,” he said. “The net effects of the pipeline’s impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project is allowed to go forward.”
With Senator Kerry, perhaps the biggest pipeline opponent, now as Sec. of State, the disapproval is all but assured.
Dave Finnigan says:
June 25, 2013 at 10:32 am
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..it’s a half of a degree Dave
“God Bless America” and then parade music….is he beginning to wrap himself in the flag?
That’s a half an hour I won’t get back.
Dave Finnigan says:
June 25, 2013 at 10:32 am
Dave please remember the /sarc tag at the end of your comments. I almost took you seriously.
A dang good start. Now let’s keep moving.