What will Obama do to tackle climate change?
JAY CARNEY/WHITE HOUSE: Well, I think the president has long supported congressional action on climate change. And while it’s clear that bipartisan opposition to legislative action is still a reality, the president’s position remains the same as it was in the first term. He looks forward to building on the achievements made in the first term, and he looks at this in a broad way because this isn’t deficit reduction, for example, is not a goal unto itself. We pursue it in a way that helps our economy grow and helps it create jobs. Otherwise, it’s not worth the effort, in his mind.
Climate change is not — you don’t pursue action that helps deal with that problem just because of the problem itself, but because there are huge opportunities in alternative energy.
Whether anyone in Washington or elsewhere likes it or not, clean energy technology is going to be a huge part of the 21st century global economy. We can make choices now that ensure that those industries are domestic, that we dominate those fields of endeavor and we create the jobs associated with those industries here in America, or we can substitute our dependence on foreign oil for a dependence on imports of clean energy technology.
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“Climate Change” is not a problem: it is just the latest Liberal excuse to confiscate all of your assets and revoke all of your freedoms.
The climate will change…with or without humans…as it has for hundreds of thousands of years. Greenland is evidence of this, and it was NOT created by SUV’s or Viking hair spray. And Greenland was and is not a “problem:” it is a stark demonstration that warming can be good for plants and animals.
No amount of phony “science” made up by IPCC hoaxers will make AGW true: the real data and the complete lack of any predictive validity for AGW theories will continue to expose it as a hoax by political hacks and others who are just seeking money and power based on lies.
landlines on January 23, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Tackling imaginary problems is Herr Obama’s forté.
tom daschle concerned on January 23, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Whatever it is, Democrat cronies are going to profit by the billions.
Marcus on January 23, 2013 at 11:54 AM
He’ll fly Air Force One all over the world to promote it.
The Rogue Tomato on January 23, 2013 at 11:56 AM
Ergo, it does not need subsidies and private capital will flow naturally to it.
WashJeff on January 23, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Whatever he does it will be awesomely AWESOME, I’m sure.
JFKY on January 23, 2013 at 11:58 AM
It’s 12 degrees out.
Little Boomer on January 23, 2013 at 11:59 AM
14 here in MA.
In other words buying solar panels from China. We can’t make them here and be cost effective so all these “clean jobs” are nothing more than liberal fantasies.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 23, 2013 at 12:04 PM
What crap. This is what happens when technically ignorant lawyers run things. They think because they say so that the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and nature can be made to change.
Charlemagne on January 23, 2013 at 12:05 PM
I don’t know. Probably the same way you tackle Loch Ness Monster.
forest on January 23, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Seriously though, the way to tackle climate change is to ruin the economy.
forest on January 23, 2013 at 12:09 PM
The solution is spelled out perfectly clearly in the Kyoto Accord: If America gives China 700 billion dollars a year then somehow, magically, Global Warming will be cured.
Why are people still discussing this? It’s all settled science.
logis on January 23, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Anyone remember when Obama had to brace blizzards on takeoff in DC and landing in Denmark to attend a global warming summit in Copenhagen? Good times.
These people have become parodies of themselves but are too stupid to even realize it.
crrr6 on January 23, 2013 at 12:16 PM
So? I’m not sure how the math works but modern “science” tells us that global freezing spells are just weather and have nothing to do with climate, but, heat spells, draught and storms are direct evidence of global warming.
tommyboy on January 23, 2013 at 12:18 PM
I LOVE IT!
The Obama administration just officially admitted that climate change is NOT the problem.
The Obama administration just officially admitted that it’s merely a trade balance problem with respect to importing energy.
I’m wondering if the administrations scientific experts are finally realizing how absurd the notion of CAGW really is.
THIS REALLY DESERVES ITS OWN POST.
blink on January 23, 2013 at 12:22 PM
many, many junkets in Hawai’i'i’i'i’i — this is a serious problem that demands a serious solution
Jeddite on January 23, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Yes, there are opportunities to enrich yourself and your cronies while impoverishing and enslaving a country.
RadClown on January 23, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Move to Hawaii.
Fleuries on January 23, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Indeed.
Don’t Lefties ever wonder what those billions upon billions upon billions of precious taxpayer dollars, stuffed hand-over-fist into the pockets of Dem 1%ers, could have done to help actual lower and middle-income families?
Forward!
visions on January 23, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Tackle?
If you look closely at the orange flag hanging on the back loop of President Mom Jeans you’d realize Obama doesn’t do “tackle”.
Neither does he carry the ball much at all, but he’s always available to do the obligatory spike of the football, in either end zone.
Dusty on January 23, 2013 at 1:11 PM
He’ll dry-hump the Greenies, and they’ll think it’s true love.
Oh, it was rhetorical?
mojo on January 23, 2013 at 1:21 PM
OBama will make our lives hell as he continues to manufacture phony crises to use to subjugate & destroy the American people.
And let us never forget, no one has ever demonstrated that CO2 causes atmospheric temps to rise.
What we do see is rising atmospheric temps causing more CO2 to be taken up into the atmosphere.
Saying it millions of times on the internet has never made their assertions true.
But they still say it.
Badger40 on January 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM
It’s really pretty easy to do…
Tax each taxpayer (or borrow) $20,000
Spend $50 to move the weather stations from the parking lots that have been built up around them.
Give the other $19,950.00 to your crony friends and yourself.
moo on January 23, 2013 at 2:09 PM
Voodoo environmentalism
petefrt on January 23, 2013 at 2:10 PM
The poor? We’re addressing that issue here.
1) Higher transportation costs, raising the cost of all goods & services.
2) Higher energy costs, raising the cost of most goods & services.
3) Higher electricity/heating costs; raising the cost of living.
See, the poor will be more dependent on the government than ever before AND there will be MORE poor people… this will increase the power and influence of the Federal Government a LOT. Win-Win.
How did you miss that benefit? More costs for everyone, more poor, more government power.
…
Oh, you meant benefit for the people of the nation and not the government? How would that increase their power as Government officials?
If the poor became less poor they’d need the government less, and that would reduce their power.
If there were less poor overall that also would reduce their power.
Why would they do anything that might reduce their power and reach? Did you not realize what the goal was here?
gekkobear on January 23, 2013 at 2:23 PM