Bush's new climate plan ...

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... is out.

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Update [2006-9-20 14:58:15 by David Roberts]: You can see the full plan here.

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  1. kmp Posted 6:41 am
    20 Sep 2006

    Technologywill save us.  In case you were wondering.  Or at least, it seems that way, as it is mentioned no less than 6 times within the first paragraph.
    I'm sure there will be much to say on this, but for starters...
    The CCTP Strategic Plan organizes roughly $3 billion in federal spending for climate technology research, development, demonstration, and deployment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase economic growth.
    Organizes $3 billion?  Does this mean no new funding for this plan, just an umbrella under which we'll now lump things we are already doing?
    This Plan complements other Administration efforts including short-term measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity, advance climate change science, and promote international cooperation through partnership including the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, Methane to Markets Partnership, and the International Partnership for a Hydrogen Economy.
    Once again, sounds like the Bush admin is already fighting the good fight against climate change.  Who knew?
  2. micheal sunanda Posted 8:10 am
    20 Sep 2006

    Bush whaked buy DOE $pending planAloha

             DOE has to defend from being 'Gored in the liver'by real possible needed solultions, because their greedy trashing earth with pollution.  They waste more tree paper with agency lingo for changing nothing we can track except spending more buillions$$$$$.   USpending =  throw money athe problem of making more 'greenhouse gases heating up earth causing climate crisis'  Only managment heads can understand DOE Bushese.  We won't argue with Bush Doe, wasting our flow.

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  3. Kif Scheuer Posted 10:13 am
    20 Sep 2006

    did they put this together yesterday?OK I just went to the website to download the report, and while the document was downloading I trolled around the site a bit. This is the hub for government action on climate change? We're really in trouble now (http://www.climatetechnology.gov)
    Does anyone know how long climatetechnology.gov has been around. It certainly didn't rank high enough of a priority to merit a decent web designer, and most of the content I could find (except the report itself) is from Sept 2005 or all the way back in 2003. It looks like they put that website together out of tongue depressers and gluestick sometime between Gore's latest speech and today. Not that you can tell how serious the government is about a subject by how in depth the website is, but actually you pretty much can.It looks like Bush was trying to create a placeholder for his rhetoric while trying to think real hard about how he can avoid this topic all together.
    I'll stop my petty whining until after I look at the report, but I'm guessing we'll all be back complaining after we read that.

  4. Laurence Aurbach Posted 11:59 am
    20 Sep 2006

    accuracy in mediaThe "Funding Opportunities" and "Events" sections of http://www.climatetechnology.gov are accurate reflections of the proactive and dynamic stance taken by the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program. Of course, such a stance is appropriate for the program that "carries out the President's climate change technology initiative and implements relevant climate change provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." It is evident that the program's $1 million budget has leveraged results commensurate with the overall importance afforded to the program by its member agencies.
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    sunflower Posted 1:14 pm
    20 Sep 2006

    Did I miss something?Where is solar energy in this plan?
  6. amazingdrx Posted 12:18 am
    21 Sep 2006

    More "sulfur fumes"You can smell 'em emanatinmg from this plan, even over the net.  He IS the devil!  Hehey.
    (Oh now I'm in trouble!!)

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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