Climate Change Dogma Comes to HUD

The Provocateur ^ | 03/29/2009 | Mike Volpe

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In an interview with Parade Magazine, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said the most remarkable thing about climate change.

As head of HUD, is climate change really your problem?

We need to stop thinking in the traditional silos, the way the federal government usually thinks. We've got to stop thinking about programs and start thinking about places and how they work. The way we plan our cities, towns, and rural areas needs to change.

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Who is Todd Stern? And, why should you care?
We are coming upon a time when the global community will be reviewing, reevaluating and rewriting the Kyoto Protocol. This is the document that each and every country will have to agree to in our win over climate change.

Todd Stern is the man who is representing YOU in those talks.

Hillary Clinton appointed him yesterday to head a larger group of people responsible that will be known as the Global Climate Change Envoy, stating:

“As we take steps at home, we will also vigorously pursue negotiations, those sponsored by the United Nations and those at the sub-global, regional and bilateral level, that can lead to binding international climate agreements,” Clinton said. “No solution is feasible without all major emitting nations joining together and playing an important part.”

Todd Stern was a senior White House advisor under President Clinton, so maybe it won’t surprise you that Hillary Clinton appointed him to his latest position. However, please do not assume this is just nepotism. His credentials do justify this role.

Time Magazine has published some facts about Mr. Sterns:

Law degree from Harvard in 1977 and After completing his law degree, Stern served as an attorney for the Legal Aid Society for two years, followed by more than a decade working for private firms

Under President Clinton, he was the senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, which called for the stabilization of greenhouse gas emissions.

Currently a senior fellow at the think tank Center for American Progress, where he focuses on climate change and environmental issues. He is also a member of the (Council on Foreign Relations) and a vice chair of public policy for the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

“Evaporation and rainfall are increasing; glaciers are retreating; sea ice is shrinking; sea level is rising; permafrost is melting; wildfires are increasing; storm and flood damage is soaring. The canary in the coal mine is singing for all she’s worth.” — on reading the signs of climate change (Center for American Progress, May 28, 2004)

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"The canary in the coal mine is singing for all she’s worth.”

Sexist bastards they are. I personally know the canary in the coal mine WAS a male, but sadly, he is dead now:

FROZEN TO DEATH DURING LAST YEAR'S WARMEST WINTER.

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Oh crap, more crap to deal with, crap and taxes and death the only 3 things guaranteed in life...

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I’m late reading the Parade magazine this week and almost posted this myself. Here’s a direct link: http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/archive/how-to-fix-housing.html
What jumped out at me was Donovan’s response to the question: How does the housing market need to change for the future? His reply revealed yet again this administration’s not-so-secret agenda: reconfiguring America to suit their views. His reply: “The way we build cities and towns is not sustainable. Buildings account for 40% of greenhouse emissions. AND SINCE 95% OF MORTGAGES ARE ISSUED BY (HUD), WE HAVE AN ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITY.” (Emphasis in that last sentence is mine.) Members of this administration constantly talk about “opportunities”—not to revive America or to help her to greatness but to change her radically. (PS. Thanks for letting me vent my spleen about this administration’s attitude/agenda.)