Obama uses executive order in sweeping takeover of nation's climate change policies

[red states rule]

Once again Obama bypasses Congress - but it is for our own good. Obama now orders "investments" and additional funds for most fed agencies to address the myth of man made global warming





Through the stroke of a pen, President Obama on Friday used his executive powers to elevate and take control of climate change policies in an attempt to streamline sustainability initiatives – and potentially skirt legislative oversight and push a federal agenda on states.


The executive order establishes a task force of state and local officials to advise the administration on how to respond to severe storms, wildfires, droughts and other potential impacts of climate change. The task force includes governors of seven states — all Democrats — and the Republican governor of Guam, a U.S. territory. Fourteen mayors and two other local leaders also will serve on the task force.

All but three of those appointed are Democrats. The task force will look at federal money spent on roads, bridges, flood control and other projects. It ultimately will recommend how structures can be made more resilient to the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and warming temperatures.

“We're going to need to get prepared. And that’s why this plan will also protect critical sectors of our economy and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change that we cannot avoid,” Obama said last June, when he first launched a Climate Action Plan.

“States and cities across the country are already taking it upon themselves to get ready… And we’ll partner with communities seeking help to prepare for droughts and floods, reduce the risk of wildfires, protect the dunes and wetlands that pull double duty as green space and as natural storm barriers.”
The White House added in Friday’s statement that even as the United States acts to curb carbon pollution, officials also need to improve how states and communities respond to extreme weather events like last year’s Superstorm Sandy. Building codes must be updated to address climate impacts and infrastructure needs to be made more resilient.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/01/obama-creates-climate-change-task-force/

[Arbo]

Every president has made emergency plans in the event of this or that. You really have to be a thick headed dummy to think this is something new.

Of course this one is stupid as the whole 'global warming' thing is utter nonsense.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Once again Obama bypasses Congress - but it is for our own good. Obama now orders "investments" and additional funds for most fed agencies to address the myth of man made global warming My friend I predict that your ardent critics here will just say that's business as usual. Very few changes bambastard has made are business as usual!! Yet his shills and others too stupid to see or know that will always toss out no big deal. In fact, IMHO that's usual a favorite talking point of a dem/lib fool that's just too damn stupid to address the issues presented. Wait for it for its sure to come.... --Tyr

[DragonStryk72]

Okay a few things:

1. Climate change is real

2. However, it is not the crisis situation that the government tries to make it out to be.

3. Climate change is inevitable. The climate of Earth in various sections changes over time. just as the Nile River used to be verdant in Egypt, the world changes in climate again and again.

I keep hearing all this crap about carbon, but why? Thanks to a return to older ways of caring for cows and cattle, we're actually reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. As well, we're constantly reducing carbon emission by vehicles and such as we come closer to the day when we will no longer use fossil fuels in our vehicles.

[cadet]

Okay a few things:

1. Climate change is real

2. However, it is not the crisis situation that the government tries to make it out to be.

3. Climate change is inevitable. The climate of Earth in various sections changes over time. just as the Nile River used to be verdant in Egypt, the world changes in climate again and again.

I keep hearing all this crap about carbon, but why? Thanks to a return to older ways of caring for cows and cattle, we're actually reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. As well, we're constantly reducing carbon emission by vehicles and such as we come closer to the day when we will no longer use fossil fuels in our vehicles.

I agree, our world and it's plants have had enough time to filter out all that industrial revolution crap. If we were gonna die, it would have been then.
But I think we're safe now.

[red states rule]

Okay a few things:

1. Climate change is real

2. However, it is not the crisis situation that the government tries to make it out to be.

3. Climate change is inevitable. The climate of Earth in various sections changes over time. just as the Nile River used to be verdant in Egypt, the world changes in climate again and again.

I keep hearing all this crap about carbon, but why? Thanks to a return to older ways of caring for cows and cattle, we're actually reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. As well, we're constantly reducing carbon emission by vehicles and such as we come closer to the day when we will no longer use fossil fuels in our vehicles.


Yes climate change is real and it happens every year

We go from Summer to Fall

Then from Fall to Winter

and Winter to Spring

Spring to Summer

Amazing how this climate change thing happens so consistently. So why the hell do we need government interfering?

[Arbo]

Yes climate change is real and it happens every year

Yeah, that's what he said. Glad to see yet again you do not understand the written word, especially sarcasm.

[red states rule]

Ahh, more bad news for the tree huggers. Nothing like injecting facts ad science to derail the doom and gloom of the environmentalist wack jobs







Global warming 'pause' may last for 20 more years and Arctic sea ice has already started to recover

Study says warmer temperatures are largely due to natural 300-year cycles
Actual increase in last 17 years lower than almost every prediction

Scientists likened continuing pause to a Mexican wave in a stadium




The 17-year pause in global warming is likely to last into the 2030s and the Arctic sea ice has already started to recover, according to new research.


A paper in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics – by Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Dr Marcia Wyatt – amounts to a stunning challenge to climate science orthodoxy.


Not only does it explain the unexpected pause, it suggests that the scientific majority – whose views are represented by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – have underestimated the role of natural cycles and exaggerated that of greenhouse gases.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2485772/Global-warming-pause-20-years-Arctic-sea-ice-started-recover.html#ixzz2jqyFVBXB

[red states rule]

More bad news for the tree huggers.....................





Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world.

On Saturday, the ice extent reached 19.51 million square kilometers, according to data posted on the National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site (ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/). That number bested record high levels set earlier this month and in 2012 (of 19.48 million square kilometers). Records date back to October 1978.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/09/23/antarctic-sea-ice-hit-35-year-record-high-saturday/