Posted on 11/18/2008 2:06:52 PM PST by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama confirmed on Tuesday that he plans to stick to the aggressive targets he had set earlier for fighting climate change and for spurring the development of clean-energy technology, saying, “Delay is no longer an option.”
The remarks were striking for being made in what was billed as a “surprise taped statement,” before a bipartisan conference on climate change in Los Angeles that included governors who have battled the Bush administration by trying to pass stricter pollution standards than federal guidelines require.
Officials from at least 10 other countries were also present, and Mr. Obama addressed his comments to them when he said, “Solving this problem will require all of us working together.” He said he had asked lawmakers who will attend a climate-change conference next month in Poland to report back to him.
Mr. Obama’s remarks were sure to be welcomed by Europeans and others who have been urging the administration to take tougher measures ever since President turned his back on the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in 2001.
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“Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all,” Mr. Obama said.
“Denial is no longer an acceptable response,” he added. “The stakes are too high. The consequences, too serious.”
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Perhaps with those considerations in mind, Mr. Obama cast his planned energy-development measures as vital to economic revival, by generating an estimated five million “green jobs,” as well as critical to national security, by reducing United States dependence on foreign oil.
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Thank God! Finally someone not just talking about the weather, someone gonna do something about it!
Lead by example Senator Obama! I want to see the White House thermostats on 60 in winter and 80 once the temp outside reaches 70. Ditto for congressional offices/buildings. Better yet, close down the government for the summer like they did in the old days.
Better start learning Chinese, they will buy the Earth.
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