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Obama seeks immediate action to curb emissions
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 19, 2008 | David R. Baker

Posted on 11/19/2008 5:00:27 AM PST by IdahoPatriot

In his first speech on global warming since winning the election, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday to set stringent limits on greenhouse gases, saying the need is too urgent for delay.

Many observers had expected Obama to avoid tackling such a complex, contentious issue early in his administration. But in videotaped comments to the Governors' Global Climate Summit in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, he called for immediate action.

"Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all," Obama said. "Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high, the consequences too serious."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: emissions; globalwarming; obama; obamatransitionfile
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Oh my, and we thought he would use restraint and not try to completely destroy our economy. We were WRONG!
1 posted on 11/19/2008 5:00:27 AM PST by IdahoPatriot
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To: IdahoPatriot

what is this “we” stuff?


2 posted on 11/19/2008 5:01:21 AM PST by Blogger
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To: IdahoPatriot

In McCain’s meeting with Obama, he said this would be a priority. The senile windbag is going to make us lose the next presidential election as well!

*punches wall*


3 posted on 11/19/2008 5:02:00 AM PST by DiogenesLaertius
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To: IdahoPatriot

What an idiot this person is.


4 posted on 11/19/2008 5:02:08 AM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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To: IdahoPatriot
We were WRONG!

What do you mean, "we"? ;-)

5 posted on 11/19/2008 5:02:18 AM PST by poindexter
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To: Blogger

Get ready to freeze your ......’s off in the Northeast.


6 posted on 11/19/2008 5:02:30 AM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: IdahoPatriot

“Obama seeks immediate action to curb emissions”

Dude, take a Beano.......


7 posted on 11/19/2008 5:02:54 AM PST by TheRobb7 (Has "Movement Conservatism" been reborn...or stillborn? It's up to us.)
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To: IdahoPatriot

Environmentalism not based on sound science = the new communism


8 posted on 11/19/2008 5:03:34 AM PST by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: IdahoPatriot

I suspected that the Obamaloon was clueless on both science and economics. I suspected well.


9 posted on 11/19/2008 5:03:39 AM PST by Da Coyote (-)
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To: IdahoPatriot

Well, crashing the economy will certainly curb emissions.


10 posted on 11/19/2008 5:05:11 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (Do not read this tagline.)
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To: IdahoPatriot
Denial is no longer an acceptable response.

Just submit.

11 posted on 11/19/2008 5:06:36 AM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: IdahoPatriot
he does realize he is not president yet? in fact i do believe he is not even president elect yet. WTH is he doing? if this is how it is before he takes office we are SO screwed in january.
12 posted on 11/19/2008 5:07:42 AM PST by CanadianMusherinMI (drill baby drill/mine baby mine!)
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To: IdahoPatriot

Remember that tax cut he was going to give everyone? This is how you will pay for it.


13 posted on 11/19/2008 5:07:53 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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If the One would stop telling us what “we” should do it would reduce methane emissions considerably.

Newsflash to zerO- when the earth cools down LIKE IT IS DOING NOW increased greenhouse gases are nature’s way of helping to warm it up a little bit.

IDIOTS.


14 posted on 11/19/2008 5:09:06 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: IdahoPatriot

Gird your loins


15 posted on 11/19/2008 5:09:49 AM PST by skikvt (Palin 2012)
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“Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high, the consequences too serious.”

Effin idiot.
I hate it I was so right about this jerk....now a jerk with power to make this big mistake a reality.


16 posted on 11/19/2008 5:11:00 AM PST by Adder (typical basicly decent bitter white person)
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To: Brett66

all those KMart shoppers who were ululating about zerO’s being elected will be paying the price in their home utility bills and gas tanks.

How many hypnotic speeches will it take to convince them they are freezin’ for a good reason?


17 posted on 11/19/2008 5:11:08 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: IdahoPatriot
Fear and Loathing from Pennsylvania Avenue.
18 posted on 11/19/2008 5:12:36 AM PST by justrepublican ("There is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 percent of income.)
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To: IdahoPatriot

The Warmists-Alarmists have changed the code-word from Global Warming to Climate Change, but the actions they want to take are the same as when they called it Global Warming, in spite of the fact that the facts on the ground prove Man-caused Global Warming is a crock.

The irony is that now that we are actually in a cooling phase, the actions the Alarmists want us to take will accomplish about the same thing as they would if we were in a warming phase - not much of anything.

This is not about Global Warming, Global Cooling, or Climate Change. It’s about reaching into our pocketbooks and extracting as much money as they can.


19 posted on 11/19/2008 5:15:16 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: IdahoPatriot

Check out AB32 and SB375 in California if you want to see what is coming to the U.S.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/14/BA9N144TDG.DTL

This will affect land use planning, transportation planning at all levels and AB32 must be incorporated into city general plans.

Two decisions have already been handed down by the courts regarding land use in California.


20 posted on 11/19/2008 5:25:10 AM PST by gogov
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