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Obama to pitch $1B climate change 'resilience fund' in Fresno, CA
The Hill ^

Posted on 02/14/2014 10:15:14 AM PST by Sub-Driver

February 14, 2014, 06:39 am Obama to pitch $1B climate change 'resilience fund'

By Laura Barron-Lopez

President Obama will pitch a new $1 billion climate change resilience fund during a visit Friday to California.

The fund, which would need to be approved by Congress, is intended to help communities dealing with negative weather that's the result of climate change.

Obama is touting the fund during a trip to California, which has been devastated by a drought that is threatening the Central Valley's agriculture production and has led Gov. Jerry Brown (D) to call on Californians to conserve water.

During a call with reporters on Thursday evening, the assistant to the president on science and technology, John Holdren, said, without any doubt, the severe drought plaguing California and a number of other states across the country is tied to climate change.

"Weather practically everywhere is being caused by climate change," Holdren said.

The administration's fund would invest in research to gather data on the impacts of climate change, help communities prepare for them and support innovative technologies and infrastructure to ready the country "in the face of a changing climate."

"Recent events have reinforced our knowledge that our communities and economy remain vulnerable to extreme weather and natural hazards," the administration said in a statement on Thursday.

Obama will propose the fund Friday after visiting with farmers in Fresno, Calif.

The new fund — separate from Obama's climate agenda announced in June — will be detailed in the president's 2015 budget, set for release next month.

While Obama has said he will use his executive authority to push his climate agenda and other policies during what he dubbed his "year of action," the president would need approval from Congress for the fund.

When asked if talk of climate change tied to extreme weather events, like California's drought, by Obama would become more frequent, Holdren said it already has been a recurring talking point for the president.

Holdren added: "You can expect the president will talk about the connection between increasing frequency in the intensity of drought and climate change on Friday" and in the future.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; climate; climatechange; climatechangefraud; climatechangefund; climateresilience; cocainefund; cooling; globalwarming; glowbullwarming; hoax; maybealittlebloooo; nudgerbucks; obamaclimatechange; obamaslushfund; pissingintothewind; slushfund; warming
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Can't he just do it by fiat?
1 posted on 02/14/2014 10:15:14 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
can't he just do it by fiat?

It isn't even fiat. There's no cap on the budget for over a year. He can just issue an executive order and print the money.

2 posted on 02/14/2014 10:17:19 AM PST by grania
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To: Sub-Driver

If this idea isn’t DOA I’ll be PO’d.


3 posted on 02/14/2014 10:18:04 AM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: Sub-Driver

So. My main question is, “where in the Boehner/McConnell utter-capitulation budget” does this particular partisan expenditure fall?


4 posted on 02/14/2014 10:18:09 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Sub-Driver
hasn't pResident 0'B@$t@rd, stolen enough already?

5 posted on 02/14/2014 10:18:28 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: grania

The bigger Question is who gets the funny money?


6 posted on 02/14/2014 10:18:39 AM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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7 posted on 02/14/2014 10:19:14 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Sub-Driver
It's the perfect fund for when global warming starts melting the heaping piles of snow: a slush fund.
8 posted on 02/14/2014 10:19:33 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: Sub-Driver

So, which California elected whores get to line their pockets with this cash?


9 posted on 02/14/2014 10:20:20 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sub-Driver
>"Weather practically everywhere is being caused by climate change," Holdren said.

This is so stupid on the surface, I think I lost 20 IQ points just reading it. I assume the next thing we will hear is that the climate is better in wealthy areas so we need to pay our fair share to help poor neighborhoods where the weather is bad.

10 posted on 02/14/2014 10:22:20 AM PST by IamConservative (There is no place like 127.0.0.1)
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s the Pied Piper of OPM.

He can do anything he wants.


11 posted on 02/14/2014 10:22:41 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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“$1B climate change fund”

AKA, 2016 Dem party campaign fund. This money will be marked for “outreach”, “promotion”, “communication”, etc. All of which boils down to leftist advertising.

I guarantee it.


12 posted on 02/14/2014 10:24:56 AM PST by iacovatx (Conservatism is the political center--it is not "right" of center)
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To: al baby

Podesta..


13 posted on 02/14/2014 10:25:41 AM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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Obama to pitch $1B climate change 'resilience fund'

I smell a brand new EO. Or is clown even bothering to write and issue EOs anymore?
14 posted on 02/14/2014 10:28:27 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: musicman

I wish someone had the guts to say that in a news conference.


15 posted on 02/14/2014 10:28:39 AM PST by RedMDer (Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: Sub-Driver
Pfft. In what decade has California NOT experienced drought? Global warming my ass!

Multi-Year Droughts of Large-Scale Extent Since 1900: 1918-1920, 1923-1926, 1928-1935, 1947-1950, 1959-1962, 1976-1977, 1987-1992, 2000-2002, 2007-2009 — Source (www.water.ca.gov)

16 posted on 02/14/2014 10:30:22 AM PST by John Robinson
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To: Sub-Driver

If this idiot can convince Americans we are facing “Global Warming” after this winter, he is in the wrong job. He could do much better selling using cars and real estate.


17 posted on 02/14/2014 10:30:24 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: Sub-Driver

End Climate Inequality!
Some places have too much heat and others too much cold!
Some places have too much rain while others have little!
Redistribute the meteorological wealth!


18 posted on 02/14/2014 10:31:05 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: RedMDer

Sounds like a slush fund for Washington approved senate candidates.


19 posted on 02/14/2014 10:31:23 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Insurgent Conservative)
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To: SueRae

Yep...........


20 posted on 02/14/2014 10:32:55 AM PST by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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