Obama Onto Big Carbon Emitters!

[icyfroth]

Obama Lays Out Climate Change Plan

US President Barack Obama has laid out a broad new plan to fight climate change, using executive powers to get around "flat earth" science deniers who have blocked action in Congress.

Obama called for new restrictions on existing and new power plants to curb carbon emissions, pledged to push new generation clean energy sources and to lead a fresh global effort to stem global warming.

Officials say the plan will allow the US to meet a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020, a pledge Obama made at the inconclusive Copenhagen summit in 2009.

Obama argued that Americans were already paying the "price of inaction" against climate change, describing 2012 as the warmest year in human history, which parched farmlands in the US heartland.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/17748756/us-uniquely-poised-to-fight-warming-obama/

Obama said he had no patience for climate change deniers, including many in Congress, who dispute the science holding that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to a dangerously warming planet.

"We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society," he said.

"Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it is not going to protect you from the coming storm."

Obama's plan is based on a three-pronged approach: cutting carbon pollution in the US, mitigating the impact of climate change, and seeking international action to address it.

Obama committed to withdrawing support for coal-fired power plants abroad and offered to discuss new initiatives with big emitters like India and China.

Umm aah!

"Flat Earth Society"!

"Sticking your head in the sand"!

*giggle*

[lakeland27]

guess who will have to follow ? 🙂 

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Most countries around the world are all adopting Climate Change Plans and this moron who will possibly be our next Prime Minister will be the First National Leader to dump it.

I'll guarantee he makes excuses, blames the current government for not being able to repeal it,  and keeps it,  but will rename it of course.

I seriously fear for this nation if this man becomes our Prime Minister.

[icyfroth]

I seriously fear for this nation full stop.

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.......;-) .......... certainly worth a giggle Icy........  :^O I do enjoy a good laugh......

[monman12]

"Obama's plan is based on a three-pronged approach: cutting carbon pollution in the US, mitigating the impact of climate change, and seeking international action to address it.
Obama committed to withdrawing support for coal-fired power plants abroad and offered to discuss new initiatives with big emitters like India and China."

"withdrawing support for coal-fired power plants abroad" What on earth  does that mean? especially when in the past "the UK Foreign Office, informed the BBC that China was building about two power stations every week"

" mitigating the impact of climate change" or even just temperature increase. That I totally endorse, as global CO2 concentrations will inexorably grow with the rising world  population and the increasing use, per capita, of power in developing nations .

These graphs might be of interest, and as for Australia's CO2 contribution it is 1.5%, and irrelevant!

Kyoto was in 1997, and aimed to reduce the collective greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries  by at least five per cent below 1990 levels by 2012

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:^O

[lakeland27]

[icyfroth]

I had a feeling you'd respond to the "flat earth society" and "head in the sand" references DLA!

🙂

*guffaw*

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Sure....;-)