The White House Is Going To Ask Congress For A $1 Billion Climate Resilience Fund

[ScienceRocks]

The White House Is Going To Ask Congress For A $1 Billion Climate Resilience Fund

The White House Is Going To Ask Congress For A $1 Billion Climate Resilience Fund | ThinkProgress

During a tour of drought-stricken California on Friday, President Obama will ask Congress to establish a $1 billion Climate Resilience Fund, Politico reports.

The proposal will be included in Obama’s 2015 budget, scheduled to be released next month. The fund is separate from the President’s broader climate action plan, in that it does not rely exclusively on executive authority and must be passed by Congress. Its goal will be to drive new technologies and forms of infrastructure to prepare for increased extreme weather and the other effects of climate change, to aid communities preparing for those challenges, and to add to the ongoing research into climate change’s impacts.

The Center for American Progress proposed a similar effort last year, modeled on efforts in New Jersey and New York City. “We must increase the federal investment in community resilience to reduce fatalities and the economic damage wrought by extreme weather events,” the paper argued.

“Recent events have reinforced our knowledge that our communities and economy remain vulnerable to extreme weather and natural hazards,” the White House said in a statement on Thursday.

 

[Mr. H.]

Why not just spend $1B on desalination plants and pipelines? It would put people to work, and deliver fresh water where needed.

 

[bripat9643]

The White House Is Going To Ask Congress For A $1 Billion Climate Resilience Fund

The White House Is Going To Ask Congress For A $1 Billion Climate Resilience Fund | ThinkProgress

During a tour of drought-stricken California on Friday, President Obama will ask Congress to establish a $1 billion Climate Resilience Fund, Politico reports.

The proposal will be included in Obama’s 2015 budget, scheduled to be released next month. The fund is separate from the President’s broader climate action plan, in that it does not rely exclusively on executive authority and must be passed by Congress. Its goal will be to drive new technologies and forms of infrastructure to prepare for increased extreme weather and the other effects of climate change, to aid communities preparing for those challenges, and to add to the ongoing research into climate change’s impacts.

The Center for American Progress proposed a similar effort last year, modeled on efforts in New Jersey and New York City. “We must increase the federal investment in community resilience to reduce fatalities and the economic damage wrought by extreme weather events,” the paper argued.

“Recent events have reinforced our knowledge that our communities and economy remain vulnerable to extreme weather and natural hazards,” the White House said in a statement on Thursday.

The Republican house will go for that. Yeah, right.

All this "fund" will be is a stash for pumping out propaganda. Any Republican who votes for it will be primaried.

 

[tinydancer]

When will your President realize you guys are broke? As in you have no money as a country? That he's spending you into oblivion?

Oh and can anyone explain to the President that there has consistently been "extreme weather events"? It's called weather.

 

[Mr. H.]

When will your President realize you guys are broke? As in you have no money as a country? That he's spending you into oblivion?

Oh and can anyone explain to the President that there has consistently been "extreme weather events"? It's called weather.

The simple is wasted on... the simple.

 

[Old Rocks]

Why not just spend $1B on desalination plants and pipelines? It would put people to work, and deliver fresh water where needed.

With present desalinization technology, that $1b would not deliver very much water. However, applied to making the desalinization process a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper, it could pay back vast dividends.

 

[Old Rocks]

When will your President realize you guys are broke? As in you have no money as a country? That he's spending you into oblivion?

Oh and can anyone explain to the President that there has consistently been "extreme weather events"? It's called weather.

Guess you will have to explain to the scientists that the increase in extreme weather events they are observing is not real, first. Scientist, you know, those fellows that actually study things rather than flapping yap without a single thought in the little head.

 

[Mr. H.]

Why not just spend $1B on desalination plants and pipelines? It would put people to work, and deliver fresh water where needed.

With present desalinization technology, that $1b would not deliver very much water. However, applied to making the desalinization process a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper, it could pay back vast dividends.

At least you agree it could be better spent, rather than wasted on a "Climate Resilience Fund".

 

[tinydancer]

When will your President realize you guys are broke? As in you have no money as a country? That he's spending you into oblivion?

Oh and can anyone explain to the President that there has consistently been "extreme weather events"? It's called weather.

Guess you will have to explain to the scientists that the increase in extreme weather events they are observing is not real, first. Scientist, you know, those fellows that actually study things rather than flapping yap without a single thought in the little head.

Oh bite me. Climate extreme weather events have been around for forever. Some years more and some years less.

It's when man in all his arrogance begins to believe he can predict let alone control this good earth's natural flow for a variety of reasons that fuck ups happen.

Take for example the massive flooding in Britain right now. For centuries certain rivers had been dredged to prevent flooding.

A few years ago the enviro whackos decided against dredging to save a mollusk. Members of the Environmental Agency are now being warned not to go to the flooded regions by police for concern for their safety. People want to kill them.

Oh and of course you have the global warming/climate change freaks out in full force with the storms in the British Isles despite true science.

No, global warming did NOT cause the storms, says one of the Met Office's most senior experts

Mat Collins, Exeter University Professor in climate systems, said storms driven by jet stream that has been 'stuck' further south than usual
He told The Mail on Sunday there is 'no evidence that global warming can cause the jet stream to get stuck in the way it has this winter'
Appears to contradict Met Office chief scientist Dame Julia Slingo

McCarthy says California's water crisis is man-made, blames environmentalists - Bakersfield Environmental News | Examiner.com

 

[Stephanie]

Obama can find more way to soak the taypayers , but it's for our OWN GOOD folks, remember that...

Because he's that brilliant weather expert so lets all just bow and give him what he wants

I've never felt more abused by a President than with this idiot

 

[Old Rocks]

Why not just spend $1B on desalination plants and pipelines? It would put people to work, and deliver fresh water where needed.

With present desalinization technology, that $1b would not deliver very much water. However, applied to making the desalinization process a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper, it could pay back vast dividends.

At least you agree it could be better spent, rather than wasted on a "Climate Resilience Fund".

Hmmmmmmmm.............. That is exactly where research for a better way to desalinize water would be found, under the heading of 'Climate Resilience'. Same for funding projects to recharge aquifers. And improve farming methods to use far less water and chemicals.

 

[Old Rocks]

Obama can find more way to soak the taypayers , but it's for our OWN GOOD folks, remember that...

Because he's that brilliant weather expert so lets all just bow and give him what he wants

I've never felt more abused by a President than with this idiot

Po' baby, really feelin' it, eh?

 

[tinydancer]

What fool on this board is going to say that climate change caused by man has brought about this drought in California?

Scientists: Past California droughts have lasted 200 years

Researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California's current drought is being billed as the driest period in the state's recorded rainfall history. But scientists who study the West's long-term climate patterns say the state has been parched for much longer stretches before that 163-year historical period began.

And they worry that the "megadroughts" typical of California's earlier history could come again.

Through studies of tree rings, sediment and other natural evidence, researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years — compared to the mere three-year duration of the current dry spell.

The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years.

Great article at link.

Scientists: Past California droughts have lasted 200 years

 

[Stephanie]

You notice how politicians can do something about, climate change?

they are all gods and will wave their magic wands if they can get enough money to do it

 

[ScienceRocks]

Why not just spend $1B on desalination plants and pipelines? It would put people to work, and deliver fresh water where needed.

That would make sense!