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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.