Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/01/2011 2:22:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
All federal agencies and private companies that deal with the U.S. government must identify their vulnerabilities to the impacts of global warming and develop a climate change adaptation plan, as per an executive order quietly signed by President Obama.
The order was actually penned in the fall of 2009 but the president’s Climate Change Adaptation Task Force had to properly investigate the matter and come up with recommendations. Now that the task force has developed a detailed plan on climate proofing the government, yet another Obama advisory committee, the Council on Environmental Quality, has issued instructions on implementation.
Under the plan, every government agency must integrate climate change adaptation into their planning, operations, policies and programs. That means they must appoint a “climate change adaptation specialist,” participate in climate adaptation workshops and educate every employee throughout the year. All agencies must identify and analyze “climate vulnerabilities” by spring of 2012 and execute an adaptation plan by the fall of 2012.
The training will also be required at all private businesses that contract with the government, including those that provide any sort of maintenance or logistics. In all, tens of thousands of public employees will be required to participate in Obama’s “green” plan, which will also require federal agencies to create greenhouse gas emissions reduction plans, increase energy efficiency, conserve water, reduce waste and support sustainable communities. No word on what all this will costs U.S. taxpayers.
The president asserts that setting these sorts of “sustainability goals” for federal agencies demonstrates his commitment to lead by example. It will ultimately have a huge impact on the nation as a whole. After all, Obama points out, the federal government occupies nearly 500,000 buildings, operates more than 600,000 vehicles, employs more than 1.8 million civilians, and purchases more than $500 billion per year in goods and services. Americans are sure to follow its lead, according to the commander-in-chief.
This will cost taxpayers and private companies contracting with government tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars.
PING!
OMG
Wait...Nope...not going to be impacted at all...
Can’t be impacted by what doesn’t exist....
Hey, these guys will be graduating soon -
...don’t be mean, they all need jobs.../S
Wow! Leave it to entitlement Commie professors to come up with a program like that.
Now, that´s what I cal a Huge Fu37ng SCAM DEAL...
I’d just send back a note to Washington: “It’s not real. I’m doing nothing. That’s my plan.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3gd2FulwY
A bunch of presumptive buttheads, the whole lot of them.
And we’re finding out about this just now?
The links in the article go to WH pieces previously listed on their site. This is the first I’ve heard a word about it.
As president, obuma can sign an executive order stating what hours federal buildings will be open or tell bureaucrats to wear pink bowties and beanie hats, but he can’t do this.
Congress needs to hogtie all presidents, now and in the future, and outline exactly what an executive order can do. Writing laws on what businesses must or must not do is way beyond a president’s power.
Congress needs to shove obuma’s executive orders up his commie Mau-Mau butt.
So then, a company which sells the government office supplies, or other goods and services, needs to have something akin to an environmental impact statement? But this one relates to global warming???????
So, as a condition of doing business with the government, we will compel small businesses to evaulate their carbon footprints and all that other stuff?
Did it ever occur to anyone that requiring studies of carbon footprints, and printing, binding, shipping, etc. of said reports, would increase everyone’s carbon footprint???
Are we in Alice in Wonderland? Orwell’s 1984? What the heck is going on in the world?
Agreed, when reading the article all I could think of was this is the legislature’s job, not Zer0’s.
That’s right according to this. Zer0’s got his hand in everyones pocket again and doesn’t give a whit if it’s legal.
Done before I drain my coffee. “Global warming is bunk. There is no need to adapt to it, and hence this agency will not waste the taxpayer’s money coming up with an adaptation plan.”
Insanity.
Everyone needs to understand that in my 40 years of working with gov't agencies, there is ALWAYS a push every year to spend ALL FUNDING so that they don't suffer a funding cutback the next year. THEY PUSH TO SPEND EVERY NICKEL THEY CAN!
They have zero (pun intended) incentive to be frugal.
That is why congress MUST cut aggressively before it is too late (if it isn't already).
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