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.
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“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.”
Is this the same John Holdren who has been consistently wrong on every prediction he makes. His record is almost as good as Joe Biden of foreign policy and the Hillary Clinton on diplomacy.
The good news is that Obama’s budgets have always been little more than jokes – I don’t think the last three were ever even given a vote in either house of Congress.
In other words, this story today will be the last you ever hear about this particular piece of nonsense. Of course, that’s as planned, since this isn’t a serious budget item. This is just a dog-whistle to the enviro-fanatics to remind them that they need to keep voting for democrats in the fall. As long as that message is received by the intended audience, this proposal will have done its job.
Look, it’s obvious–the problem is that the sun is racist. Can I have my billion dollars now?
More research? Wtf.
This blog, and many others, are flooded on a weekly basis with “new” research.
The subject has been researched to death, well, unfortunately, not quite, but to the point where I’m convinced that most of the grant apps that get written are just old material that gets dusted off and re-dated.
The fact that climate has been “researched” for 40yrs and it STILL can’t be figured out ought to tell the common person something about said research.
And yeah…don’t care that Bush spent money too. Politicians use the unthinking, uneducated, unwilling-to-BE educated masses to support the gravy train. For politicians, at this stage, this is nothing more than a means to move $$$ from Point A to Point B, period…and all done with the “support of the sheeple!!”
Jim from Maine (soon to be Florida, cuz Global Warming is killing me up here in New England…just can’t take it anymore.
Hmmmmm…..2014 Midterms = XL Decision delay. 2015 XL Decision + $1,000,000,000 talking points = Energy security + jobs + voter compromise for 2016. 2016 = 20 years of flatlining temperatures. It’s not about the real climate folks….it’s all about predicting and trying to control the future political climate.
How much resilience do they want per million dollars because I’m shovel ready with resilience. More’s the point I’m dragline ready.
Funny thing, this “truth” concept. (Though, in international relations, it “is” a bit hard to find sometimes….)
See, it is Israeli’s sworn enemies who have sworn to blow her up with nuclear weapons. It is Israel who has NOT used nuclear weapons and has attempted (sometimes poorly) to avoid unneeded deaths.
It is Israeli’s enemies who have launched 12,000 unaimed, randomly shot rockets into Israeli homes and stores in just the past year from spots oh-so-cleverly located between houses, shops an stores and offices.
It is Israeli’s enemies who have constantly attacked innocents in their hatred and propaganda
But, this is not a innately political website, and this site is NOT intended to address all issues in a conflict going back to the year 4000 …. Leave it be.
Obama = the biggest mistake this country has made in the last century.
Use of the word resilience is interesting, following, as it does here, Taleb’s analysis of the fragility spectrum paradigm.
“”Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.[my emphasis” (N. N. Taleb, Fooled by Randomness (2001), Prologue http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/prologue.pdf)
So much for Obama’s progressive Forward! willy-nilly damn the unintended consequences.
YES! YOU, TOO, CAN CONTROL THE CLIMATE!
Just sign over all of your rights and freedoms, and send them to WhiteHouse.gov. The rest of you will be hearing from IRS.gov, soon…
The best way to encourage climate resilience is to encourage CO2 production. This will help plant life and make photosynthesis work more efficiently using less water, resulting in a greener planet.
Forgive me commenting on foreign politics but this sounds like a very good idea.
We in the UK could do with some resilient infrastructure.
Weather happens.
I believe we need to prepare for climate change due to the current unusual 11 year solar cycle. The weak output of solar cycle 24 appears to be affecting Earth’s climate toward a cold bias causing more snow events, increased ice cover, and longer period of below freezing conditions.
The federal government needs to help communities adapt to these conditions to preserve life and economic activity. Stocks of road salt and snow removal equipment needs to be in place well ahead of the next 7 years winter seasons, and quantities sufficient enough need to be anticipated as to not run out. Fuel stocks must be anticipated as to not run out to preserve life from freezing conditions. Homeless shelters must be in place as to save the poorest citizens from freezing to death.
I applaud President Obama for helping the nation adapt to climate change caused by the grand solar minimum of solar cycle 24. We are going to need all the help we can get.
@Michaelwiseguy – Applaud him with your own money. Stop wasting mine.
And speaking of resilience, you know how I was telling you Adelaide in South Oz was apparently experiencing its greatest number of summer days over 40C (that’s 104F for you folks) since the last time we looked, and bearing in mind our sacked Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery’s dire predictions of endless droughts and even if it does rain there won’t be enough runoff to fill our dams, guess what heat does to oceans? No prizes for guessing-
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/rain-falling-in-adelaide-causes-widespread-flooding-and-commuter-chaos-and-is-our-wettest-day-in-45-years/story-fni6uo1m-1226825879645
How’s that for resilience Barak baby and always remember resilience is a global problem. Stinge locally and act globally! Besides I’m only 6 steps removed from that Nobel Committee and I know how to pull a few strings.
Observa, gently speaking, no, that’s the commode six steps away and that’s what the string is for, flushing. It’s a common problem as we seniors enter our dotage. Best wishes.
After a few days of winter break return south U.S..
This extra climate related funding and political trip to support local candidates in California again illustrates how big the disconnect is between the Administration and the public. A significant part of the public has been freezing its butt the last several months due to the extra cold weather, snow and ice. Hundreds of thousands of people are still without power from the last storm. Local winter budgets have been exhausted in many states and local cities. There is a shortage of funds, salt, road infrastructure, propane and natural gas. The economy is a taking a beating .One would think the Administration would be at least offering some Federal assistance or public support in the media, but not a single word of encouragement or assistance. All this talk about global warming induced climate change is making things even worse as the public is given a false sense of climate anticipation as they find themselves completely unprepared for the colder winters that have been happening now for 15 years in every Contiguous state because alarmists erroneously only predicted the opposite , unprecedented warming. Billions of taxpayers dollars have been wasted or lost on subsidies for unsustainable direct green energy projects that have failed . Who is going to increase their winter ice and heating fuel stocks when the Administration is claiming that the climate debate is settled and climate change (global warming according to their science) is a fact) .? However winters in every state have been getting colder since 1998. This year will be one of the coldest winters in 30 years. These winters may likely continue to be colder like they did 1880-1910 and 1945-1980 when the global oceans cooled for 20-30 years. The Northern Hemisphere oceans SST has been declining for a decade since about 2003.
Politico “missed” the best quote:
“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.
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“More research? Wtf.
This blog, and many others, are flooded on a weekly basis with “new” research.”
It’s not really about research on whether, or how much… that’s settled science, remember? This is about shelling $1 billion to Democrat campaign contributors that make green boondongles. You know, the Solyndra effect.
This may be intended to offset his unpopularity with Greens if/when he OKs that pipeline.
‘Observa, gently speaking, no,..’
Hmmm…you reckon the grant application needs work? Perhaps we could declare a small war, surrender quickly and get a Marshall Resilience Plan? The State Gummint is a wee bit short at present and things are a bit tight.
:Kpar says:
February 14, 2014 at 7:30 am
YES! YOU, TOO, CAN CONTROL THE CLIMATE!”
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actually this initiative is based on the OPPOSITE idea.
Maybe it’s just me but a billion dollars doesn’t sound like a lot of money these days. But a trillion dollars, now you’re talking.
Ever notice how warmists are like bigfoot hunters? Bigfoot hunters see a broken twig and say a bigfoot has been there or hear a sound at night and say a bigfoot is out there. Warmists see a storm and say man made global warming did that or a drought and say man made global warming did that. Maybe it wasn’t global warming maybe it was a bigfoot.
That is just the tip of the iceberg. Go to
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/legislative_reports/fcce-report-to-congress.pdf
to see the administration’s August 2013 Federal Climate Expenditure Report to Congress. Table 1 on page 5 totals up the 2014 administration requests for climate change expenditures to be $21.4 Billion. When the fraction of that, $2.658 Billion, spent on scientists in the Global Change Research Program is awarded by an administration whose leader says “climate change is a fact” (meaning of course CAGW), and the head of whose EPA announces that “there better not be any deniers in here,” and whose recent high level addition is John Podesta, etc. etc. what do you think the scientists will propose to prove in their research in order to win proposals? What do you think they will say in their papers demonstrating results?