White House Announces Climate Change Initiatives

[applegrove]

White House Announces Climate Change Initiatives

By CORAL DAVENPORT at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/us/politics/white-house-unveils-climate-change-initiatives.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1

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MISSOULA, Mont. — President Obama announced a series of climate change initiatives on Wednesday aimed at guarding the electricity supply; improving local planning for flooding, coastal erosion and storm surges; and better predicting landslide risks as sea levels rise and storms and droughts intensify.

The actions, involving a variety of federal agencies, were among the recommendations of the president’s State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, a group of 26 officials who have worked since November to develop the proposals.

One of the projects involves shoring up the power supply during climate catastrophes, and the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday awarded a total of $236.3 million to eight states to improve electricity infrastructure in rural areas. A government study released in May concluded that climate change would strain utility companies’ ability to deliver power as extreme weather damaged power lines and hotter temperatures drove surges in demand.

The Agriculture Department also announced new funds to help rural areas that are struggling with drought, although the White House has not said how much money would be allocated.




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[applegrove]

1. GOP will be apoplectic. They so don't want the environment

to be a democratic issue. Because we are at a tipping point of people deeply understanding how dangerous climate change is. Go Obama Go Obama Go Obama

[tularetom]

2. If Obama wants people to think climate change is a life and death matter

He has to act like it is. He can't just announce some wimpy ass "initiatives" in his too-cool-for-school Obama manner, he needs to convey to the country that this is some serious shit that threatens the future of the planet.

On the other hand, maybe he doesn't really believe it???

[woo me with science]

3. You cannot simultaneously claim to care about the environment/climate change

and push the corporation-empowering, environment-assaulting TPP.

[Cha]

4. Thank you, President Obama.. mahalo apple

[applegrove]

6. Always a pleasure Cha.

[Cha]

9. :)

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

[applegrove]

7. Thanks for the encouragement Uncle Joe.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Peace to you, applegrove.

[TheKentuckian]

10. I think some hair on fire is needed here. I'm not downplaying at all but a lot of this

is groundwork and education on how to suck up and deal with some coming effects.

You start doing stuff like this means emerging circumstances and so by definition the gravity of the issue is not being relayed by the officials.
Instead we have full blown delusion and deception contrasted with mealy mouth "excuse me please" stuff with a bunch of fracking, laying pipelines, and absurd trade treaties.
Hell, it is beyond jacked up to think Obama may well be doing more than all his predecessors combined and in relation to the problem doing net nothing or more likely reduced a net negative growth curve but still functional disastrous.