Worked for Mr. Obama.
Posted on 04/13/2015 3:07:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Presidential bid could be first in US history to make global warming key election issue, highlighting differences with Republicans.
John Podesta, who recently quit his job as advisor to President Barack Obama, tweeted this would be “top of the agenda” for Clinton as she prepares her run for the White House.
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A Washington veteran who was also advisor to Bill Clinton, Podesta is widely credited as the brains behind Obama’s climate change plan, published in 2013.In a speech last December Hillary Clinton said Obama’s carbon cutting policies “must be protected at all costs”, labelling them “unprecedented” and calling for politicians to “act decisively… to head off catastrophic consequences.”
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According to local media, a focus on climate change would make this the first presidential campaign ever to touch on the issue, which has split lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
The two Republicans to have announced plans to run, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, are both firmly in the climate sceptic camp and have said they believe the links between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are unclear.
Other potential candidates like Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush have also steered clear of branding climate a foreign policy priority, while leading GOP senator Mitch McConnell has called on states to ignore Obama’s carbon cutting plans.
In her book ‘Hard Choices’, published last year, Clinton argued that promoting economic growth over the environment was a “false choice.”
She became aware of the impacts of rising temperatures on US ecosystems after a visit to Alaska in 2005 she said, where she saw dying trees and forest fires.
“Virtually everyone I spoke to on that trip had a personal wake-up call about what was happening,” she wrote.
“A tribal elder recounted how he had returned to a lake where he had fished as a boy only to find it dried up. I met lifelong participants in dogsled races who told me they no longer even needed to wear gloves.”
2009 pain
As US secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, Clinton also oversaw Washington’s strategy at UN climate talks, and experienced at first hand the tortured nature of international emissions negotiations.
In a detailed account of the closing hours of the ill-fated Copenhagen UN climate summit in 2009, Clinton’s book chronicled how she and the president stalked the corridors of the conference centre hunting down the Chinese leader, who they suspected of organising a secret meeting.
“Off we went, charging up a flight of stairs and encountering surprised Chinese officials, who tried to divert us by sending us in the opposite direction. We were undeterred,” she wrote.
“The Chinese guards put their arms up against the door again, but I ducked under and made it through.
“In a makeshift conference room whose glass walls had been covered by drapes for privacy against prying eyes, we found Wen wedged around a long table with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and South African President Jacob Zuma.
“Jaws dropped when they saw us. ‘Are you ready?’ said President Obama, flashing a big grin. Now the real negotiations could begin. It was a moment that was at least a year in the making.”
Worked for Mr. Obama.
Agreed.
As a side note, I saw someone suggest to a climate scientist who supported AGW that the sun might be contributing to global warming. He was pretty emphatic that it wasn’t which was surprising to me.
I don’t see how it is possible to exclude the sun as a possible source (if there is indeed warming).
Damn Chinese. Couldn't they have done us a favor and just pushed the bag lady (and her side-kick, Tonto) down the stairs? Don't we buy enough of their stuff to merit a little bit of help?
We'd have just chalked it up to overzealous security. Can't be too careful nowadays - particularly when your surrounded by shameless grifters and unicorn jockeys.
This will come as welcome news to Iran, Russia, ISIS..
I know. I get it. If i could dig up my posts on this site from 15 years ago i could illustrate that i know, it’s the sun. It’s a scam. Meant to steal tax dollars from our pockets and enrich carbon credit exchange scammers like Obama and Gore (true story). However, to have abclily repeat the same exact crap post every time there is a global warming story without any other contribution whatsoever makes me want to laugh out loud. It has to be a bot. Whomever is doing it please stop. At least link a story that contradicts the bs. Stating that the sun is a big fire ball and humans are small and how do they affect the climate over and over and over is simply ridiculous.
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Hillary... do a speech on Globull Warming in a blizzard in New Hampshire...see what happens...
YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAW! Let’s saddle up a dead horse and beat it, just beat it!
Hillary wants all her leftist AGW profiteer pals to know that the cash window is open.
It’s her “Gold Now for AGW Mandates Later” strategy; let the bidding begin.
” Hillary wants all her leftist AGW profiteer pals to know that the cash window is open.”
GW was a leftist political movement from day one, so of course she is deep into it. Big money for the connected players too.
“Why the “F” isn’t it woman caused climate change?”
Good question. Nelson DeMille says in “The General’s Daughter” that women have 70% of the world’s wealth and 100% of he world’s p***y. Well, the book’s main character says it.
Please Hillary ? Please don’t rain on America’s Parade.
Yes there is real climate change, the Hilda Beast can really beyatch up a storm with nosterels flaring...
Pantsuits harm the environment.
Agreed. I see a lot of it outside of FR too.
I would imagine that AGW is not a top tier issue for all but the very left. Hit her hard with Keystone.
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