This Is The Obama Administration's Proposal To Help Wildlife Deal With Inevitable Climate Change

[UnrepentantLiberal]

It's vague, and carries no actual weight, but we're sure this arctic fox is pleased to know that there's a 7-point scheme to save it when its habitat melts.

This week the Obama administration showed off its new strategy for protecting America's flora and fauna from climate change. Said David Hayes, Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior:

Fish and wildlife or plants, our land, our habitat, is not just something we feel good about because we like nature, but in fact they're providing a lot of services to us - jobs, recreational opportunities, we're seeing that they provide wonderful protection from storm surges, that the wetlands are filtering our water, providing clean water.

The plan is called "The National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy." It incorporates seven key ideas, and it is incredibly vague. To be fair, it's not exactly a to-do list; it's more a learned set of general recommendations for the future. For example! Goal number six is to "Increase awareness and motivate action to safeguard fish, wildlife, and plants in a changing climate." But the plan has no authority to actually do those things; it just suggests that they'd be a good idea.

Other items on the agenda include "Conserve habitat to support healthy fish, wildlife, and plant populations and ecosystem functions in a changing climate," which, okay, that means very little, and "Increase knowledge and information on impacts and responses of fish, wildlife, and plants to a changing climate," which means about the same amount. But, this is important; we're just guessing at how climate change will affect our wildlife, but as we learned from the story of America's rarest turtle, it's vital that we do figure it out, and quickly.

More: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-03/obama-administrations-plan-save-wildlife-climate-change

[Vincardog]

1. Obama's speeches are the same as this policy. Long on rhetoric devoid of specific actions.

[bluestate10]

3. What liberal President has accomplished more than President Obama?

Don't say FDR because FDR was not liberal, read all of his proposals and legislation.

[Vincardog]

5. Didn't someone prosecute Bankers after the S&L meltdown? The Reagan administration Liberal my ass

[MadHound]

6. LOL!

This coming from a person who thinks Obama is liberal!

If you actually examine Obama's record with an unbiased eye, you'll see that Obama is about on the same point on the political spectrum that Eisenhower is, center right. Hardly a liberal. Examine FDR's record, that's easy, he is definitely left of center. Hell, he even snagged a couple of programs from the Socialist Party and made them his own, Unemployment Insurance and Social Security. When is the last time that Obama snagged anything from the Green Party, much less the Socialist Party? Oh, yeah, that's right, never.

[joeybee12]

2. In the past I've given Obama an F on environmental issues...

I see nothing that will make my opinion change.

[forestpath]

4. It took "diverse teams of federal, state, and tribal technical experts" to come up with

what probably most aware school kids would be able to come up with?!

Jesus Fucking Christ.

These are not proposals in any real sense of the word, they are nothing but more empty rhetoric from the Obama administration.

[ProSense]

7. Apparently

The plan is called "The National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy." It incorporates seven key ideas, and it is incredibly vague. To be fair, it's not exactly a to-do list; it's more a learned set of general recommendations for the future. For example! Goal number six is to "Increase awareness and motivate action to safeguard fish, wildlife, and plants in a changing climate." But the plan has no authority to actually do those things; it just suggests that they'd be a good idea.

...all the administration's critics have left is faux outrage and mocking. If the goal was to be "fair," why is this piece focused simply on the broadly stated and general language instead of the actual proposal?

If anyone is actually interested:

Strategy Highlights Brochure
http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov/pdf/Strategy-Highlights-Brochure.pdf

The National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy (Full Report)
http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov/pdf/NFWPCAS-Final.pdf