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Climate Change Economicsby Climate Change Economics LLC“The place to go for the things you need to know.”
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More drama over climate change
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It is becoming increasingly evident that the Obama administration is incapable doing two
things at one time passing immigration and climate change. It seems absolutely absurd that the work that three respected US Senators have put into a climate change bill which had good prospects for passage is now being shunned by the administration and Senator Reid who is more interested in politics than in good work for the citizens of the United States. Hispanics support climate change as stated in a recent article on the website- The e Energy Collective ( Update: Graham Withdraws Support for Climate Legislation by Matt Dernoga on 04/24/2010 21:28 {http://theenergycollective.com/TheEnergyCollective/63950} It is patently clear the science is indicating that time is running out, the global readings at the Mauna Loa Station show that CO2 levels are now over 390 ppm, the global mean is just shy of 390 ppm (source NOAA http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/#global. Ocean water temperatures in tropical cyclone development prone areas are higher than normal, this combined with the release by Dr. Gray of his forecast for this year's hurricane season provides more indications we are leaning increasingly towards a tipping point. What is clearly indicated is that the administration is willing to give China a clear and distinctive lead in research/ development, manufacturing of green technologies relative to climate change. What's at stake? Millions of jobs for Americans, a lead in a new global industry that the US could control and now this is going to be handed over to the Chinese. This act by the Obama administration and Sen. Harry Reid's is one of the more inept moves we've seen in climate change politics other than the bungling of Copenhagen. There needs to be to be a complete change in the way the environmental, and economics community looks at how climate change is being handled within the administration. Dr. James Hansen in his recent book Storms of my Grandchildren has stated that the administration is green washing climate change this is anexample of that circumstance. You talk one thing and do another. This type of action by the administration is inexcusable when what is at stake is the planet. It is not to say that immigration reform is not important the administration can do both at the same time. There are many talented people working in the White House I am sure that they're quite capable of handling two major issues simultaneously. I cannot be convinced that this White House is not as sophisticated and knowledgeable as former President Lyndon Baines Johnson was running the White House and his knowledge of the U.S. Senate. If this administration is incapable of being as good as former Pres. Johnson then we have indeed de-evolved. It is apparent that every member of the administration needs to be given a copy of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage and made to read it. The postponement of the climate change Bill has tremendous implications with our global partners in Europe, Eurasia, Asia, Latin America and the Third World. Stopping this bill for purely domestic political reasons is not only shortsighted it shows that the administration does not have a practical global view of actions and their outcomes. It is imperative that the administration immediately get behind the climate bill and its passage. 
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