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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https://www.politicopro.com/go/?id=30857
One billion dollars …
Okay Cali is having a drought so water is tight. Cali also has about 1/10th the population of the USA so let’s put on our thinking hats and solve this. 100 million dollars can buy more than one million dual flush toilets (Waterridge from Costco just as an example). Replace one million old 13 litre toilets with 4/6 litre ones.
I’m sure there are better ways but as we can see from the gov’s plan there are a lot worse as well.
but the excuse/science is….it’s hinding at the bottom of the ocean
‘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.’
Seriously, it sounds just like Oz in a continent where some will be experiencing flood, some drought and some average weather but the pollies have to be seen to be concerned-
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/rain-could-dampen-pms-drought-tour/story-fni0xqi4-1226826824783
and naturally we get the usual suspects blaming the weather cycle on climate change every time it suits them. Realistically, propping up marginal farmers that struggle to survive over the long haul with flood and drought, ultimately penalises those who are viable long term, via lower prices for their produce and higher prices for agricultural land.
M Courtney says:
February 14, 2014 at 8:07 am
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.”
You have the infrastructure, it’s merely been neglected because y’all thought you weren’t gonna need it.
Same thing here in the US. We already have the technology to build around every problem (caveat: it’s cheaper to clean up after tornadoes than it is to make stuff strong enough to withstand them) except the Yellowstone Caldera going “foop”. If people want to build substandard housing on floodplains & in hurricane alleys, let ’em. When their house gets mashed & they don’t have insurance, they can figure it out for themselves.
I would dearly like to say “only in America’ … but somehow i feel it applies all over the world in order to feed the many snouts in the agw trough!
Burch says:
February 14, 2014 at 6:10 am
As far as I can tell, Barky’s still spending all that & more. This $1000000000 is just more of the same nonsense to pass around to his buddies.
On Sun. or Mon. if someone will flyover and video the area of Lake Michigan they are showing as open, ice free water, I think we can catch them “with their pants down”. I am almost certain Lake Michigan will be frozen over. Even looks like they might be funding an ice breaker out there in the thinnest ice portions of the lake, as there is an anomalous white ring around the thinnest ice area?? Don’t know for sure about that part, but it is strange looking and IMO should not be there. Link to 6am EST image: http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/micethk-00.gif
Lake Ontario ice extent would be interesting, too, if someone is over there and can flyover and video … and compare.
The only real cost of climate change/global warming/AGW/climate weirding/ climate marketing name of the day is the increase in insurance premiums due to over-weighted catastrophic reinsurance premiums and the tax money wasted on political stunts like this.
“Climate hubs” today, “checkpoints” tomorrow.
The money should be used for R&D on a towable trailer that can make the trip from Columbus OH to Atlanta GA and then fold for easy and inexpensive mailing to Columbus.
I wonder if Obama and friends will view increased migration from the northern US to the southern US as caused by climate change?
A billion dollars.
Just wiggle the silver handle and watch it go round and round and down the drain.
No doubt this money will be used to buy off more “scientists” to continue the iron triad of funding and deceit.
Probably some will be spent on reprogramming, I mean, educating the public about the horrors [sic] of 1-degree Farenheit of possible warming during our lifetimes.
It will, of course, be nothing but a slush fund.
Skeptics remain hopelessly in the past as if it ever was a debate about “science”;
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/13/obamas_newspeak_121571.html
Do you think a sound argument over a spaghetti chart is going win the debate?
I think that Mr. Obama is mistaken and that he cheated on his “fans ” because of climate change on our and other planets does not depend much on the human factor . Are there climate change on other planets where there is no influence people ? Surely there . I am offering President Obama a solution for all time on our planet for all climate change and much more, for half the smaller amount. So for about $ 500 million , that are included and the cost of making a program for the use of existing astronomical data . Tell Obama that he will repent if this offer does not agree , because this will soon come to my consideration.
“President Barack Obama will ask Congress to set up a $1 billion Climate Resilience Fund in his proposed budget next month…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.”
If this is anything like the Administration’s previous bribes, it will offer tens of millions of dollars to every state that signs up for the Climate Resilience Fund. The only condition is that the state will adopt the measures which will be determined later. This bribery will make the actions on climate appear to be state led.
This was done to our educational system recently under the “Race to the Top” program. States signed up to receive the millions of dollars of federal funding for education, with the provision that they would adopt Common Core, sight unseen. Some states have now seen Common Core’s curricula and are attempting to opt out, and are losing the federal funding as a result. Common Core is a massive curricula which is identical for all schools and is also a data hub for all children in public schools. States sign up for these federal dollars, and if it is like the educational funding, it comes with some fine print for future policies which they have not even seen yet.
Mosher is absolutely right. This is about dealing with issues as they happen not trying to slow climate change by cutting CO2 or other long term interventions. I read stuff on here a lot and unless I am wrong I think many here would herald an idea like this if it came from the likes of Monckton. In fact I think he has said more than a few times, our most realistic way of dealing with any change is to do it as it happens.
I think many of the comments here are more about political bias than addressing the proposed concept.
ren says:
February 14, 2014 at 6:23 am
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Mt Kelud in Indonesia went off last night. Three dead and 100K evacuated. The blast went 10 miles up. Big quake in Hotan China the other day, shake map was rated a 9. The Earth seems to be picking up it,s activity of late.
Has anyone else noticed that if you replace the word “climate change” with “witches” most of these statements would be perfectly acceptable if read in a newspaper from 200-300 years ago?
We are just repeating the hysteria of a by gone era with new names for the cause.
Climate Hubs? Don’t they really mean jobs for friends of the President that will enable them to harass his non-friends (anyone not living off the government already).
Any government body that spends a dime of this money will be committing waste, and thereby breaching its fiduciary duty to its constituents..
As several here point out, it’s another scheme to hire more bureaucrats to oppress the public and make for more votes for socialist tyranny. How ,much you wanna bet that this money will wind up in the pockets of der Fuehrer’s billionaire cronies?
Well you guys voted him in…
Come to think of it – how does hiring more bureaucrats mitigate climate change? Prove it
@Larry Ledwice –
You didn’t get it quite right – Holdren is the Director of the Office of Shamanism and Witchcraft.
Larry – my apologies for misspelling your name.
The republicans are just as stupid as the democrats to have even thought Rommney had the slightest chance… The only chance now is Rubio. THE ONLY….