Posted on 08/15/2016 10:42:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama picked one of the hottest weekends in the Northeastern U.S. to discuss climate change.
“One of the most urgent challenges of our time is climate change,” the vacationing president said in his Saturday radio address. He touted his efforts to cut pollution, including from cars and trucks, assuring Americans, “we’re not done yet.”
Obama announced that before he leaves office, “We’ll release a second round of fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles. We’ll take steps to meet the goal we set with Canada and Mexico to achieve 50 percent clean power across North America by 2025. And we’ll continue to protect our lands and waters so that our kids and grandkids can enjoy our most beautiful spaces for generations.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Step one for Trump, eliminate CAFE standards.
IMHO Obama is right - climate change is one of the most pressing problems for the continued growth of big government, big government programs, and useless bureaucracies.
After all, without some life threating problem that might appear sometime in the undefined future (it sure missed the 1970’s deadline of 2000) how can you get money to support liberal projects from college to the highest reaches of the Federal Bureaucracy.
Once you break the code (”It depends on what the meaning of is is.”) it is very easy to transmogrify political hot air regardless of the source and subject.
Or Obama himself.
Particularly after he spends time on the jet flying to his many vacations.
Climate change is the biggest threat? What happened to “this is the moment when the oceans will cease to rise, and the earth will begin to heal!”
Oblamey decided to play golf that day instead.
I don’t know who said it, but it sure fits with the climate change nuts.
“How, pray tell, do you expect to fight the weather? And, if you should win, how do you know you’ve won?”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.