Yes for all those people who think skeptics are lavishly funded, here’s proof. Oh, wait…..
Obama to propose $1 billion climate fund
By Alex Guillén, Politico
President Barack Obama will ask Congress to set up a $1 billion Climate Resilience Fund in his proposed budget next month.
Obama is traveling to Fresno, Calif., on Friday to discuss the drought plaguing most of California and the Western U.S. and to announce new administration actions, including the proposed billion-dollar climate fund.
The fund, according to the White House, would go to research on the projected impacts of climate change, help communities prepare for climate change’s effects and fund “breakthrough technologies and resilient infrastructure.”
It remains to be seen whether the administration can secure such a high figure from Congress for a climate fund not likely to attract widespread Republican backing.
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White House spokesman Matt Lehrich told POLITICO that Obama “is going to continue to make the case that climate change is already hurting Americans around the country and that it will only get worse for our children and grandchildren if we leave it for future generations to deal with.”
While no single extreme weather event can be attributed directly to climate change, Obama will stress the scientific understanding of how climate change makes events such as the drought more extreme, said John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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The administration’s new push to address the drought comes a week after the Agriculture Department announced it would set up a series of “climate hubs” across the U.S. to study climate change’s impacts on agriculture and rural activities and develop mitigation and adaptation measures.
To view online:
https://www.politicopro.com/go/?id=30857
Well, my check from Exxon seems to be lost in the mail, so maybe I can fill out the right application forms for some Climate Resilience/Resistance Fund cash instead. I have to pay the heating bills, after all.
/snark
0bama doesn’t give 2 hoots about the climate — this is just another case of plundering the treasury.
I wonder what he thinks Iran’s nuking Israel will do to the climate.
I can Imagine universities across America rubbing their hands with glee…. As spending $1 Billion is really going to stop a La NiNia caused drought. Lunacy.
” … Obama will stress the scientific understanding … ”
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Naturally, “scientific” and “understanding” will be redefined to CAGW standards 🙂
Happy to help.
Just tell me what I have to do, how much I can claim and where to apply.
Yes I know I live in Scotland but I am sure we can be of help.
Send me $1 000 000 and I’ll post y’all some of our water from the Uk. For $1 billion I’ll send it all!
I have a pen and I have a phone ( not an obummerphone, I paid for it.) and I’m going to use them to tell my representative and and senators how I feel about another $1,000,000,000 going to his cronies to fund more Solyndras!
Chump change… Check this out.
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070514-2.html
Scroll down to see this:
“The President Has Devoted $37 Billion To Climate Change-Related Activities Since 2001. The President has requested an additional $7.4 billion for FY 2008 – $205 million more than this year. This amount would support a wide range of climate change-related research, development, and deployment programs, voluntary partnerships, and international aid efforts.”
Rapid changes in circulation are caused by solar activity. If not, we will focus on demonstrating dependence we lose, because the Sun in the stratosphere works really fast.
Gore effect: dense fog in Fresno until 11 AM.
He’d better hurry up with that $1 billion climate fund, the mid-terms are coming and Dems need campaign contributions bad.
Oh wait, its not about politics, its about saving the planet. I forgot, sorry.
Let the scientists explain the temperature fluctuations in the stratosphere in winter over the the polar circle. Is the volcano erupted? Or perhaps an asteroid?
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_TEMP_ANOM_JFM_NH_2014.gif
“The fund, according to the White House, would go to research on the projected impacts of climate change, help communities prepare for climate change’s effects and fund “breakthrough technologies and resilient infrastructure.””
The fund, according to the White House, would go to spread propaganda on the non-existent impacts of climate change, help cronies plunder “Earned Income” of taxpayers and future generations, and fund “Eco-mental self-flagellation exercises.”
Burch … does that somehow make it right? This scam has been going on for 25 Years. This is not the only spending on AGW in the budget, this is NEW spending.
“While no single extreme weather event can be attributed directly to climate change, Obama will stress the scientific understanding of how climate change makes events such as the drought more extreme, said John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.”
A changing climate will result in changes in climate, so we must do something!
Well, of course. May I suggest adopting the Boy Scouts of America motto: “Be Prepared”.
A billion dollar slush fund to support efforts that will do nothing regarding what the climate does seems typically Obama-esque.
We have a soap opera: “As the Climate Turns”.
Madness … what more is there to say?
Suggested reading/reference: Charles Mackay’s book –
“Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”
is a history of popular folly by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: “National Delusions”, “Peculiar Follies”, and “Philosophical Delusions”. Despite its journalistic and rather sensational style, the book has gathered a body of academic support as a work of considerable importance in the history of social psychology and psychopathology.
The subjects of Mackay’s debunking include economic bubbles, alchemy, crusades, witch-hunts, prophecies, fortune-telling, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), shape of hair and beard (influence of politics and religion on), murder through poisoning, haunted houses, popular follies of great cities, popular admiration of great thieves, duels, and relics. Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias and Michael Lewis, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. Scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan mentioned the book in his own discussion about pseudoscience, popular delusions, and hoaxes.
In later editions Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another “popular delusion”, of importance at least comparable with the South Sea Bubble. Mathematician Andrew Odlyzko has pointed out, in a published lecture, that Mackay himself played a role in this economic bubble, as leader writer in the Glasgow Argus; and wrote on 2 October 1845 that “There is no reason whatever to fear a crash”.
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Notable quotes:
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”
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Edit needed: “The administration’s new push to exploit the drought …” Absolutely nothing he mentioned addresses the drought in California, but does much to get money to contemplate how government might inflate it’s do nothing importance.
A conclusion chasing data. I would hope that the house would spike that request as it is pure pork and boondoggle. But it is a very small hope as their latest vote demonstrated.
California is faced with a growing population and a degrading water infrastructure. Instead of planning for the future, Governor Moonbeam and other higher government officials will try to change the weather rather than build infrastructure needed for the future.
California wants and needs clean power. So they ban hydroelectric in any form preferring instead wind and solar that kills endangered condors and other species (remember the turtles displaced by the Ivanpah solar field?http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/wildlife/two-desert-solar-plants-may-harm-thousands-of-tortoises.html )
To me, the California efforts at reducing carbon emissions will have negative impacts on all critical areas in the state–Environment, economy, visual beauty, energy security, and ultimately the financial stability of the state treasury. Only with total economic collapse will the state rethink its position on alternative energy.
Bring on the nanotech revolution, time for a new scare story… 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(novel)
It’s not really money, it voter group candy. There is not respect for taxpayers either.
Surely a bad time to announce this with his ratings so low, according to the polls I thought the US didn’t give two hoots about climate change , he must know this so why?
My brethren, please. The man quieted the rising seas for free. Just imagine what he’ll be able with a billion dollars!
While McKibblesandbits & co. are looking for the missing heat, etc., the US is eventually going to have to start looking for the “missing money” caused by idiotic schemes like this.
To the “Bush Blamer” above, this Billion from Obama (er, actually us….WE get hit in the wallet) is above and beyond the multiple Billions already being squandered on supposed climate change….so your comparison is invalid…
Kate Forney says:
February 14, 2014 at 5:59 am
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Allow me to correct you, Kate, but it’s exactly the opposite.
About nukes: Iran 0:200 Israel
And it’s Israel, which is threatening to bomb Iran to smithereens day-in, day-out – and not vice-versa.
Just for the files.