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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This is the paradox.
Climate change is real: its just going in the wrong direction: colder.
Global Warming advocates only ever propose solutions for the control of Global Warming, (overheating), by reducing CO2 emissions. However at present the climate appears to be changing, (as it continues to do naturally), to a colder phase, probably because of reducing solar activity in the current cycle 24 and onwards and the resulting changes of ocean circulation patterns.
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming advocates fail to explain how reduction of man-made atmospheric CO2 can ever help to control Climate Change towards a cooling world.
Having made so many dire predictions of the impending adverse climate catastrophes from overheating, Global Warming / Climate Change advocates fail to accept that a climate change towards a cooler climate is more likely to lead to more intense adverse extreme weather, simply because the energy differential between the tropics and the poles is increased.
And the evidence of these weather extremes is with us this winter 2013 – 2014 throughout the Northern Hemisphere with massive cold in North America, with excessive storms in the UK and intense cold in Siberia etc.
This is not an effect of man-made CO2 emissions but is much more likely to do with the greater amplification of the Northern jet stream that is now coming closer to the situation of another Little Ice Age.
Paul @ur momisugly Eco Stores says:
February 15, 2014 at 5:34 am
Regardless of whether climate change is a human fault, I think we can all agree on the need to stop relying on the earth for resources
REPLY: OK then I nominate you for resource mining on Mars then. Adios! – Anthony
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I agree, Paul. That’s why I no longer use resources from the earth. I have everything imported from Erehwon by wagon trains pulled by teams of unicorns. It costs a little more, but it’s worth it.
Erewhon? Take a left at the corner, two galaxies over at the 1st stoplight past the Whole Foods market. You can’t miss it.
P.S. Sign up for their Rewards Card. You get discounts on cold fusion fill-ups at their pumps.
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Ahem… on topic:
I think the wheels are gonna come off those climate hubs. Too many loose nuts…
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Ahhh….Huh?
Rely on resources that aren’t on Earth?
Have you been listening to KooKoo? He seems to be the expert on “out-there”.
Goldminor, you said, “The climate change story was not as clear back then as it is now.”
Many on this comment thread will strongly disagree with you.
You also said, “They do not seem to have a clue about the future consequences of their overspending.”
I think that they do- the question is, what is their real agenda? Anybody who thinks that we can continue to spend money we don’t have must believe in Santa Claus.
Simon says:
February 14, 2014 at 10:24 am
Mosher is absolutely right.
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Sorry, but Mosher is in full support of Morodor on the Potomac, which is what this POTUS is.
As there is NONE, ZERO ZIP NADA US temperature rise, no increase or decrease in snow cover, stream flow, hurricanes, or drought, fires etc, in any of the DATA, what the hell do you think they are going to do,
What they will do is Spend more money on crony alternative energy corporations for their political supporters, and try to tax more. It is simply criminal.
I vote we send Paul over to North Korea. I am sure he and his buddies would fit right in.
I am sure if you sold your Eco-Store Paul you could finance one way tickets for you and your buddies and all of your customers.
BYE-BYE!
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Samuel Gompers in answer to the question of what labor wants “More”
At least he was fighting for real people with practical needs in life. The climate zombies are equally blunt but far less intelligent.
Daryl:
>Burch … does that somehow make it right?
Didn’t mean to imply that I found it “right”. Just that compared to previous wastage, it was smaller. I should know better than to assume the sarcasm was obvious. Apologies for the confusion.
Think 95% of climate scientists should be reassigned to more important tasks as elderly care, water supply/ sanitary technologies and energy conservation . 97%?. OK then!
GregM:
At February 15, 2014 at 10:49 am you say
I favour your suggestion that they be “reassigned to … sanitary technologies” and I have a spare brush for one of them to use.
Richard
More correctly, it is a $1 Billion crony slush fund for the climate science theme park.
Think how big a desalination plant that could be built in Kali with $1billion.
The Obama Fan Club must be running low on cake.
richardscourtney says: February 15, 2014 at 11:04 am
“I favour your suggestion that they be “reassigned to … sanitary technologies” and I have a spare brush for one of them to use”
You´re more cruel than I, that´s for sure!
I´m just afraid the last 20-25 years fixation in climate science will delay progress in other areas. Needs are so many and so great in many disciplines.
“for one of them”.
Whom?
Or, better, an instant-runoff system, such as exists in Australia and was voted down in a referendum in the UK in 2012 or thereabouts.
Every year there must be over ten thousands college grads who majored in environmental this-or-that–and over 1000 grad-school graduates in the same. Green pressure groups would find it in their interest to create job niches for them. Given that, they would have lobbied Obama for a proposal like this. Given that Obama wants to offset a green light for Keystone with some sop for the greens, this is the result.
GregM:
At February 15, 2014 at 2:32 pm you ask me
Well, I would not suggest Michael Mann but he has shown himself to be incompetent at everything except hiding things, and the job requires competence at removing dirt and not hiding it.
And I would not suggest Phil Jones because he has a habit of losing useful things so the brush may not be available for use if he had it.
Similarly, Kevin Trenberth has a problem finding what he thinks exists so I would not trust him to find the dirt.
So, I think Briffa is my first choice.
Richard
These sci-fi-entists don’t care what us little people think so long as our politicians believe them or are paid to believe them and push their hot air. I mean their lavish pay, reputation and livelihood are at steak here. I really don’t want them messing with the weather. I like spring, summer, winter and fall. I like the hot, the cold, the rainy and sunny days. I like that every winter is different from the last and one summer is hotter and another colder and one winter warmer and the next colder.
I suppose after this last few days this will be seen as a $1 Billion snow job!
Title: change “billon” to “billion”.
I have skipped to the end, so apologies if this has been mentioned before.
Ian M