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White House Announces Climate Change InitiativesBy CORAL DAVENPORT at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/us/politics/white-house-unveils-climate-change-initiatives.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1
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MISSOULA, Mont. President Obama announced a series of climate change initiatives on Wednesday aimed at guarding the electricity supply; improving local planning for flooding, coastal erosion and storm surges; and better predicting landslide risks as sea levels rise and storms and droughts intensify.
The actions, involving a variety of federal agencies, were among the recommendations of the presidents State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, a group of 26 officials who have worked since November to develop the proposals.
One of the projects involves shoring up the power supply during climate catastrophes, and the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday awarded a total of $236.3 million to eight states to improve electricity infrastructure in rural areas. A government study released in May concluded that climate change would strain utility companies ability to deliver power as extreme weather damaged power lines and hotter temperatures drove surges in demand.
The Agriculture Department also announced new funds to help rural areas that are struggling with drought, although the White House has not said how much money would be allocated.
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applegrove
(118,622 posts)to be a democratic issue. Because we are at a tipping point of people deeply understanding how dangerous climate change is. Go Obama Go Obama Go Obama
tularetom
(23,664 posts)He has to act like it is. He can't just announce some wimpy ass "initiatives" in his too-cool-for-school Obama manner, he needs to convey to the country that this is some serious shit that threatens the future of the planet.
On the other hand, maybe he doesn't really believe it???
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)and push the corporation-empowering, environment-assaulting TPP.
Cha
(297,154 posts)applegrove
(118,622 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,349 posts)Thanks for the thread, applegrove.
applegrove
(118,622 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,349 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)is groundwork and education on how to suck up and deal with some coming effects.
You start doing stuff like this means emerging circumstances and so by definition the gravity of the issue is not being relayed by the officials.
Instead we have full blown delusion and deception contrasted with mealy mouth "excuse me please" stuff with a bunch of fracking, laying pipelines, and absurd trade treaties.
Hell, it is beyond jacked up to think Obama may well be doing more than all his predecessors combined and in relation to the problem doing net nothing or more likely reduced a net negative growth curve but still functional disastrous.