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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.
The California payoff.
Thanks for posting.
The last EO, #2014-666 entitled "The EO to end all EO's" states that EOs are no longer needed and the executive POSOTUS can just rule by edict.
Obungu is going to approve the Keystone. The nonsense mentioned here (global warming resilience fund) is a sop to the eco-wackos. It will be money tossed down a rat hole but will keep some Federal slugs (workers) busy and might even hire some more from “the community” to administer it
What's threatening agriculture production is diversion of fresh water to sloughs in the Sacramento River delta for the benefit of the delta smelt.
The guy sure likes insurance fraud and insurance fraud accessories
Oh goody, yet ANOTHER slush fund for Democrat cronies and hangers-on.
He can just say it is so and it is so.
Thank you. I was just going to post that other than 3 years in Spain, I've lived my 64 years in SoCal and seen one drought after another. SoCal is basically a desert, even the greater Los Angeles basin. The genuine problem now is the population explosion over the last decades.
Solution: desalinization plants. But no, the hippie/socialist/environ-whackos won't allow it. Recently read Israel has constructed so many that they now have a surplus of water that they are selling.
It would be a slush fund. The aid would go to government “partners” hiring at “prevailing” union wages. Or worse, yet, professional firms like CGI, which don’t produce any results at even higher prices.
I got an brilliant idea! Lets elect more Republicans who will do absolutely nothing to stop Barry.
NO MATTER WHAT!
You know...cuz they’re a lesser evil!
Whose with me?
“dealing with negative weather that’s the result of climate change....”
They should have to prove they’re dealing with negative weather DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE.
They can’t.
I just finished shoveling 12” of global warming off my sidewalk.
Money laundering. Another impeachable and imprisonable offense.
People in NJ are still waiting for FEMA to get some of that gov flood insurance to them after hurricane Sandy. Another slush fund for politicians that claims to be help for weather damage is absurd.
I think that a, ‘Proclamation’, is in order.
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