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Home Front: Politix
Obama Says U.S. Can Lead Climate Change Battle
2013-07-02
[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack Obama
We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...
touted his new climate change proposal in his weekly address Saturday, calling for Americans to lead the charge against the warming environment.

"Those who already feel the effects of a changing climate don't have time to deny it -- they're busy dealing with it," said Obama in his pre-recorded address on radio and the Internet.

"The firefighters who brave longer wildfire seasons. The farmers who see crops wilted one year, and washed away the next. Western families worried about water that's drying up.

"The cost of these events can be measured in lost lives and livelihoods, lost homes and businesses, and hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency services and disaster relief. And Americans across the country are already paying the price of inaction in higher food costs, insurance premiums, and the tab for rebuilding.

"The question is not whether we need to act. The question is whether we will have the courage to act before it's too late," the president said.

Obama laid out a broad new plan to fight climate change on Tuesday, using executive powers to get around deniers who have blocked action in Congress. He called for new restrictions on existing and new power plants to curb carbon emissions, pledged to push new generation clean energy sources and to lead a fresh global effort to stem global warming.

"This is the fight America can and will lead in the 21st century. But it will require all of us, as citizens, to do our part," the president said Saturday, calling for scientists to develop biofuels and farmers to grow them, engineers to design clean technology and businesses to get them to market.

"We will be judged -- as a people, as a society, and as a country -- on where we go from here," Obama said.
Posted by:Fred

#12  Yeah, but his proposal is not to win the war against nature, but to surrender by dismantaling the very tools which help people live through the rough weather. Over centralized government and regulation prevents rapid local response. Less personal wealth means less ability to deal with problems. Wealth without responsibility uses resources at a meager efficiency.

Its the same kind of crap which would prevent you from quarrying stone for spearheads because the runoff would pollute the spotted dick salamanders' sunning location. Then they bring in spearheads from halfway around the world, and give them to the guys who would just assume sit around the campfire rather than go on the hunt, or even just improve the campsite, in the hope that for an hour every night they talk about how cool their spearheads and bag of beads are.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2013-07-02 12:16  

#11  Perfect segue to explain his desire to.... spend more time with family, resign and retire to Martha's Vineyard, etc.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-07-02 11:01  

#10  Lost on guns. Begged by Congress to keep a low profile on immigration. Doesn't want to talk about healthcare, foreign relations or the economy. TOTUS is running out of things to talk about.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-07-02 10:55  

#9  Why not set 'em up with at-home biogas generation? If it's good enough for the Afghans...
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-07-02 09:39  

#8  I suggest Obama go fight off the tide for a while. Maybe see if he can keep the seasons from changing.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2013-07-02 09:37  

#7  He's on the Climate Change topic again, run for your lives, keep your hands on your wallets, save yourselves while you can.

Posted by: Clavish Hatrack2624   2013-07-02 08:40  

#6  IMA confused again. Which is worse, "boiling over" or...."tipping over" ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-07-02 08:29  

#5  Obama: 'Planet Will Boil Over' If Young Africans Are Allowed Cars, Air-Conditioning, Big Houses -
President Barack Obama said at a town hall event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday that unless we find new way of producing energy "the planet will boil over" if people in Africa are allowed to attain air conditioning, automobiles and big houses.

“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over -- unless we find new ways of producing energy.”

Posted by: tipper   2013-07-02 07:42  

#4  I thought we led by refusing to sign (or ratify, I forget) the Kyoto Protocols.
Posted by: Bobby   2013-07-02 06:03  

#3  1.8% growth is way too much?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-07-02 03:36  

#2  Impeachment proceedings must begin.
Posted by: Mikey Hunt   2013-07-02 01:28  

#1  It's the only battle he is willing to lead in.

Of course, no one is shooting back. And, as a nice side benefit, he gets to wreck the US economy.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2013-07-02 00:20