Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/15/2008 10:09:29 AM PST by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (AFP) – President-elect Barack Obama was set Monday to name his energy and environmental chiefs and vow a new dawn for US leadership against climate change after eight years of Republican "denial."
After talks with his national security team, Obama was to name more cabinet lieutenants at a news conference where he was also facing questions over Illinois's scandal-hit governor.
Obama's transition team said the press conference in Chicago would "discuss the nation's energy and environmental future."
Obama was reportedly to nominate Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as his energy secretary, placing the expert in renewable energy on the frontlines of climate change policy.
Joining Chu in Obama's new team was expected to be Lisa Jackson, chief of staff to the New Jersey governor, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Obama was further to announce that Carol Browner, who served as EPA administrator under president Bill Clinton, would become the White House "climate czar" overseeing the battle against global warming.
And Nancy Sutley, a senior adviser to Obama's transition team, was expected to be named chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Last week, after a meeting with former vice president Al Gore, Obama said the "time for denial is over" on climate change.
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I could use some warming right now. I’m freezing my ‘nads off. Possibly due to solar cycles at a recorded low. The earth may be warming (due to magnetic changes), but the atmosphere is cooling. Open up that border and trade all of those Mexicans places; let them freeze while I bask in the heat!
The Democrat "No Domestic Energy Policy!"
All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or
complete economic collapse will be our only choices.
You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy
without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us
to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.
The Democrats are leading us into a real war for oil.
A war we won't have the energy to fight. A war we don't need to fight because we have our own resources.
This is why the Democrats are traditionally considered the War Party.
Excellent post.
No, they are not going to lead us into a war.
What they are going to do is lead us into a depression that will make the depression of the 20’s look like a vacation resort.
Thank you. ;-)
Depression tends to lead nations to war. Being dependent on foreign sources of energy our supplies could be cut off putting the entire nation out of business overnight. I guarantee we would go to war over that no matter what party was in power.
I live east of Cody, and it hasn’t seen above zero since Saturday. Minus 5 now at 4 pm
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