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Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund
An anonymous reader writes "President Obama will ask Congress for a $1 billion 'Climate Resilience Fund' in his proposed budget next month. From the article: 'Obama is expected to release his proposed 2015 budget in early March. The prospects for the climate fund are uncertain in a Republican-controlled House. But Obama, who made preparation for climate change one of the major themes of the climate action plan he released in June, will continue to press for the need to adapt, according to the White House.'"
You are way off base.
This is not a fund to do anything about climate change. This is a tiny fund to help mitigate the effects after they happen.
The USA's policy on climate change is to do nothing about it and then try to do better than others in dealing with the inevitable effects.
Remember that the wealthy will be mostly ok regardless and that is all policy makers in the US care about nowadays.
I imagine this fund is really just to make sure that the (wage) slaves can be prevented from dying or becoming too sick to work until they can be replaced with worker robots.
Love how the profitable companies are mixed in with the bankrupt ones to make the list look longer and scarier. Also the biggest loser in the list Solyndra was actually backed by a loan program created by the Bush Administration.
Can't really expect the whole truth from the Heritage Foundation can we?
Yeah, except that 97% is a made up statistic in the category of "repeat a lie often enough and people will think it is the truth.
97% of IPCC climate scientist agree with the IPCC findings.
One would hope so, since they helped craft the findings. Self selection at it's finest.
Broaden that out, and that number starts to fall dramatically: 66% of all climate scientists.
Broaden that out again, to match the phrasing often used: "Scientists" with no qualifier, it drops below 5%
http://www.friendsofscience.or...
Oh, and Bill Nye's (everyones favorite "Scientist" example these days) does not get a vote: He is an engineer.
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
Read it and weep, American taxpayer:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/01/us/government-incentives.html
Why were companies like GM ($1.26B), Royal Dutch Shell ($1.65B), JP Morgan Chase ($157M) and many more left out of the above post? Political convienience. You won't find these facts on Fox News.
Even if you accept the most dire predictions of AGW as fact, they still don't imply that giving Obama $1 billion to play with is the answer. There is no scientific consensus on what should be done about global warming.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."