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Obama Issues Executive Order To Prepare For Climate War

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Two months ago we reported that Obama had officially declared war on the weather, after it was reported that he was ready to use "administrative authority" to fight climate change. While at the time it was not quite clear just what authority he had to unleash centrally-planned weather, today we finally got a glimpse of how Obama's biggest war yet would look like.

As Washington Times reports, "President Obama issued an executive order Friday directing a government-wide effort to boost preparation in states and local communities for the impact of global warming. The action orders federal agencies to work with states to build “resilience” against major storms and other weather extremes. For example, the president’s order directs that infrastructure projects like bridges and flood control take into consideration climate conditions of the future, which might require building structures larger or stronger — and likely at a higher price tag."

In other words, following the epic Syrian fiasco, whose primary intention was to boost the US budget deficit as a result of a localized war, and allow Bernanke more debt issues to monetize, Obama now has decided to unleash a very expensive, and very much debt-funded war against the greatest enemy of all: the weather.

The article goes on:

“The impacts of climate change — including an increase in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, more heavy downpours, an increase in wildfires, more severe droughts, permafrost thawing, ocean acidification and sea-level rise — are already affecting communities, natural resources, ecosystems, economies and public health across the nation,” the presidential order said. “The federal government must build on recent progress and pursue new strategies to improve the nation’s preparedness and resilience.”

 

There’s no estimate of how much the additional planning will cost. Natural disasters including Superstorm Sandy cost the U.S. economy more than $100 billion in 2012, according to the administration.

Well, the more the merrier. Since interest costs in the New Normal are not an issue as long as the Marriner Eccles politburo is around, debt is wealth, and the more debt the US incurs to comply with Obama's latest executive order, the better.

Sure enough, as a result of this idiotic development, it is best to have very lofty aspirations, of the variety that come in 9 or more digits: after all, since nobody can quantify "climate change" may as well unleash the most ridiculous numbers conceivable.

The White House is also setting up a task force of state and local leaders to offer advice to the federal government, with several Democratic governors having agreed to serve and at least one Republican governor, from the U.S. territory of Guam.

 

Mr. Obama has a goal of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020, and the Environmental Protection Agency is working on rules that would impose tougher regulations on coal-burning power plants. But much of the president’s climate-change agenda has stalled in Congress, and the administration says the new order recognizes that global greenhouse gas emissions are still rising, making further damage from global warming inevitable.

Actually no:

But since when did an autocrat, whose only concern is pandering to his populist, Obamaphone-equipped electorate, while spying on the middle class and doing the bidding of Wall Street, care about the facts?

Finally:

“The question is not whether we need to act,” Mr. Obama said at the time. “The question is whether we will have the courage to act before it’s too late.”

Damn right: however the "action in question has nothing to do with spending trillions to prepare for a crisis that may come long after the Federal Reserve has destroyed western civilization, but rather to overthrow a corrupt, oligarchic, self-serving system, in which the middle-class, once the backbone of a great nation, is being forced into extinction by its "elected" representatives through the most subversive form of wealth transfer in the Fed's 100 years of existence.

 

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Sat, 11/02/2013 - 00:33 | 4114626 Money Squid
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Actually, he is pretty smart. No real experiece, no real value, yet he is directing the world's largest economy to spend trillions of dollars to enrich a few percent of the people, at your expense. That's the plan and by rolling out these "stupid" programs people gather around the light of the smart phone and argue over it, but go along anyway.

Fri, 11/01/2013 - 23:27 | 4114502 grunk
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I'll believe him when he shuts down the Capital Beltway.

Fri, 11/01/2013 - 23:28 | 4114504 t0mmyBerg
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Fuck Obama and the cockroach he rode in on

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 00:30 | 4114620 Money Squid
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GWOW - Global War On Weather

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 00:49 | 4114652 Robert of Ottawa
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King Canute = Obama the Cute

Moron!

 

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 00:56 | 4114656 Constitutional ...
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Sorry to HAARP on, but here's a real patriotic President speaking in 1961 about the U.S. proposing global co-operation in developing 'weather prediction and weather control...for the benefit of peace.' And satellites for peace, not merely spying and warring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNi6kprpyBU

Some conspiracy theorists suggest that weather warfare is being waged instead by the private corporatists who own the technology for their own power and profit.  Another theory to be proven true? We'll see...

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 01:08 | 4114673 Overdrawn
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King Canute,

Lets drone the weather.  American's answer to everything.

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 01:37 | 4114715 GoldenDonuts
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So the world is going to hell in a hand basket.  The middle class is dissappearing and the wealth gap grows exponentionally every day.  You wouldn't think that Barry would have to make shit up.  But hey how are you going to create more debt if you don't.

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 03:04 | 4114768 Joe A
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Since infrastrucutre in the US is falling apart anyway better rebuild them good. A point: CO2 levels are decreasing since the crisis of 2007/08

But the biggest threat to America are the weathermen underground people this presidents associated himself with.

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 07:12 | 4114871 zombiebank
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Somebody please save us from this moron!

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 09:30 | 4114989 d edwards
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Wait a freaking minute! Wasn't the origianl "stimulus" of @ $1 trillion supposed to be for "shovel ready infrastucture jobs?"

As 0bozo later chuckled "guess those shovel ready jobs weren't so (heh heh) shovel ready."

A lot of that money was "shoveled" to 0bozo cronies and bundlers.

And now this?

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 08:51 | 4114952 skbull44
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I posted your comment on my blog and received the following rejoinder from 'Bob':

Your graph does not at all convey what you purport to convey. It is U.S. only, not “global”– as per the article quoted– and therefore only represents about 16.5% of the global CO2 emissions. Also, it is CO2 only, which excludes methane– a much more potent, though volumetrically smaller (for the moment), GHG.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions#List_of_countries_by_2011_emissions_estimates

Overall, global emissions are continuing to rise, including CO2, though the rate of increase is slowing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24742770

So, actually, yes, the bolded statement from the administration is true and your rebuttal is incorrect.

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 11:08 | 4115160 I woke up
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This has shades of Enron wanting to deal in weather futures right before their collapse. It seems like a last gasp effort.

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 11:15 | 4115170 Evil Franklin
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Obviously the evil that resides in the WH has never lived along the Gulf Coast or the West Coast.  It's never bothered to ask whether any organization has already laid the foundation for strengthening our infrastructure against natural disasters.  Of course it doesn't really care as long as it can find more ways of enriching the in crowd.

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 11:25 | 4115196 metachron
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Life is too short to be naive about the critical issues your life and future depend on understanding. Climate change is a complex global phenomenon and greenhouse gases are just one of hundreds of measures. The US Pentagon has been planning for climate wars for nearly a decade now. It doesn't matter what ideology you have or what evidence you have, when islands start to disappear, populations will breakdown and we'll see millions on the move. And they may come to your neighborhood.

Top planners in the Pentagon has indiated that the years around 2020 will be characterized by a constant, global state of war related to land and resources shifts disrupted by climate change. I, for one, would like to continue being ahead of the Pentagon in my personal foresight.  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/14/climate...

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 13:12 | 4115413 Gulfcoastcommentary
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Another example of Obama's attempt to change the conversation.  No one will mention the fact that this year is one of the slowest hurricane season's on record---in the Atlantic at least. 

Yeah, the earth is slowly warming over the past 100 years (and the Northern Hemisphere is warming more), but the point is that nothing can be done about it.  It would take $trillions to convert autos to electric, scrub CO2 from stacks and build more nuclear reactors.   Actually Thorium is the most promising technology to move away from fossil fuels.  See my blog "Thorium May Solve the World's Energy Crisis" at http://gulfcoastcommentary.blogspot.com/2013/01/thorium-reactors-may-sol...

See my blog "Climate Change Update" at http://gulfcoastcommentary.blogspot.com/2013/04/climate-change-update.html

and my blog "Reverse EPA's Mandate to Regulate CO2"  at http://gulfcoastcommentary.blogspot.com/2013/07/reverse-epas-carbon-regu...

Enjoy!

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 18:33 | 4116036 yepyep
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heres the new boogyman to be scared of now that alot of the sheep are waking up to the "war on terror"

 

government needs to have a war on something, war on drugs war on poverty, whatever to justify deficit spending and increasing their power.

expect some centrally planned climate related boondoggles and more of the US people/tax slaves debt on the balance sheet of the fed.

 

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 21:55 | 4116397 RMolineaux
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This article has an excess of sarcasm alongside a limited interest in the facts.  What the budgets of governments need at this point in greater capital investment in infrastructure (since the private sector is not doing any capital investing), and a lot less wastefull spending on the pentagon, pointless grants, pork, etc. 

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