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Ben Smith's Blog: Climate on the agenda
TPM Election Central: In Surprise Speech, Obama Promises Global Leadership On Climate Change
Hoffmania!: Can the New President Do This?
44: Obama Sends a Message to Governors on Climate Change
Hotline On Call Part Deux: Obama Promises "New Chapter" On Climate Change
Climate on the agenda
Ben Smith's Blog —
The Transition put out this video address to a Schwarzenegger-led climate summit in Los Angeles today.
There's no new policy meat, but more suggestions that Obama won't let the financial crisis push back the shift to cap-and-trade.
"Few challenges facing America -- and the world -- are more urgent than combating climate change," he says in the video. "Many of you are working to confront this challenge....but too often, Washington has failed to show the same kind of leadership. That will change when I take office."
In Surprise Speech, Obama Promises Global Leadership On Climate Change
TPM Election Central —
Barack Obama is set to deliver a surprise speech via video to the bi-partisan Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles this morning.
Obama's team sends out the speech video, which renews Obama's commitment to battling global warming and casts it as an economic and national security issue:
In the speech, which will also be heard by figures from some two dozen foreign countries, Obama repeatedly casts climate change as an issue requiring international cooperation.
"The United States cannot meet this challenge alone," Obama says. Solving this problem will ...
Can the New President Do This?
Hoffmania! —
Y'know...address the Global Climate Summit in a mature way that doesn't devolve into jingo and bullcrap? For that matter, just having a new president address the Global Climate Summit, period, is refreshing.
Obama Sends a Message to Governors on Climate Change
44 —
44 The Obama Presidency Obama Sends a Message to Governors on Climate Change President-elect Barack Obama recorded a message to be delivered this morning at the Bi-Partisan Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles. The hosts of the summit include Obama allies Govs. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, as well as Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, whose wife is an Obama-backer. Obama's remarks, as delivered and promising "a new chapter of American leadership on climate change," follow below: Let me begin by thanking the bipartisan group of U.S. governors who ...
Obama Promises "New Chapter" On Climate Change
Hotline On Call Part Deux —
Via video today Barack Obama addressed the Governors Global Climate Summit, a 2-day event organized by CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to craft a plan on the issue ahead of next month's UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland.
Obama sends clear message on global warming
Political Animal —
OBAMA SENDS CLEAR MESSAGE ON GLOBAL WARMING.... A two-day gathering called the Bi-Partisan Governors Global Climate Summit convened this morning in Los Angeles, and Barack Obama made an unexpected video presentation, vowing ...
Yes We Can Combat Catastrophic Climate Change
Matthew Yglesias —
Good to hear this message from the President-Elect:
A downturn is, in many ways, a good to get to work on climate/energy issues. There’s less pressure on natural resource availability, and it’s an opportune moment for big infrastructure initiatives that have large up-front costs but important long-term payoffs. ...
Obama Promises Leadership on Climate Change
Drudge Retort —
"When I am president, any governor who's willing to promote clean energy will have a partner in the White House. Any company that's willing to invest in clean energy will have an ally in Washington. And any nation that's willing to join the cause of combating climate change will have an ally in the United States of America." -- Barack Obama's video remarks to a summit on climate change today in Los Angeles
President-elect Obama promises “new chapter” on climate change
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog —
More than 600 climate change leaders from across the country and around the world convened in Los Angeles today for the opening sessions of the Global Climate Summit, a 2-day event arranged by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to break gridlock on the issue ahead of next month's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland.
In a short video addressed to the Summit's attendees, President-elect Obama emphasized his enthusiasm for the Poznan Conference and promised that his administration would mark a "new chapter in American leadership on climate change."
"Few challenges facing America -- and the world -- are more ...
Josh Dorner: Obama Hits Green Homerun With Remarks to Govs on Energy, Climate
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Much like Al Gore's surprise appearance at Netroots Nation this summer (which seems like eons ago at this point), I am told that President-Elect Barack Obama's taped message to the Bi-Partisan Governor's Global Climate Summit was met with thunderous applause and a standing ovation earlier today.
President-Elect Obama's remarks should quiet any remaining suspicions that his campaign pledges--the strongest energy and environmental platform by a presidential candidate ever--were merely fleeting campaign promises to be discarded after Election Day. (Though it should have long since been clear to anyone paying attention that Obama is very ...
Obama Addresses Guvs on Global Warming
Political Punch —
Previous | Main Obama Addresses Guvs on Global Warming November 18, 2008 3:26 PM President-elect Obama delivered a video message to the Bi-Partisan Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, Ca., today. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear," Mr. Obama says. "Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We've seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season." Obama says the White House has often failed to show leadership on the issue. "That will change when I take office," he says. "My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on ...
Obama Pledges New Era on Climate Change
News —
KEY BLOGS What they are saying today MyDD Conservatives may try to pin the nation’s economic woes on President-elect Barack Obama over the next few years, Jonathan Singer predicts, warning readers to remember that the current crisis began during President Bush’s tenure in the White House. The Guardian ... READ MORE TalkingPointsMemo Josh Marshall won’t believe The Guardian’s report that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) plans to accept a post as secretary of State until he sees other news outlets start reporting the same thing, the blogger declares. But Clinton probably will ... READ MORE The Weekly Standard ...
Obama Wants To Stay The Course On Climate
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
President-elect Barack Obama sent a video message to a summit meeting on global warming organized by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, implying that despite the continuing economic turmoil, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will remain a central component of Mr. Obama's energy, environmental and economic policies.
Many climate scientists would undoubtedly suggest some tweaks in the language in the statement -- the line about "stopping climate change," for instance. Keep in mind that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year concluded that a freeze ...
Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
Daily Kos —
By video link, President-Elect Barack Obama spoke to a gathering of governors and foreign officials in Los Angeles Tuesday, reiterating his stance on climate policy. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. ... My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process. That will start with a federal cap and trade system. We will establish strong annual targets that set us on a course to reduce emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020 ...
Obama Out-Gores Gore at Climate Summit
American Thinker —
November 20, 2008 Obama Out-Gores Gore at Climate Summit By Marc Sheppard Barack Obama managed to say all the wrong things at this week's Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles -- without even showing up. The President-elect appeared to the green faithful on Tuesday in the form of a mammoth video image , and opened his pre-recorded pledge to "take the lead" in addressing global warming with these eerily familiar words:
Paige Donner: Governors' Global Climate Summit: Thinking As One Planet
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Truly remarkable is the fact that this summit was an international meeting on climate change between regional leaders from around the globe. This truly remarkable element of the Governors' Global Climate Summit held in Beverly Hills Nov. 18th and 19th is what marks us on a path toward "thinking as one planet." What was heard at the Summit was a chorus of international voices.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Deputy Executive Secretary Richard Kinley, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle
California's Gov. Schwarzenegger assembled a "Dream Team" ...
Let’s make this global recession permanent, it’s good for the environment!
Pundit Review —
Let’s make this global recession permanent, it’s good for the environment! Tonight on WRKO’s Pundit Review Radio at 8pm, author Chris Horner discusses his new book, Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed If global warming climate change is indeed the most important crisis we’ve ever faced , as Al Gore said, then this global recession is about the best thing to happen since, since, since, well, I’m just not sure. Can I get an amen? Bruce McQuain over at QandO nailed it when he said this is a headline only an environmental wacko could love, Eastern Bloc collapse ...
The Most Inconvenient Truth: 13 straight years of Global Cooling
Pundit Review —
The Most Inconvenient Truth: 13 straight years of Global Cooling If the same thing happened for 13 straight years, would you call it a trend? An emerging consensus? How about an incredibly inconvenient truth? The data shows that not only is Global Warming not happening, but we are well into a cooling period that could last for quite some time . It is clear why the fanatics have re-branded Global Warming as Climate Change. When the Warmest in History Isn’t by Debra J. Saunders When it comes to global warming, newspapers play up stories that reinforce the prevalent the-sky-is-falling belief that global warming is ...
William Bradley: Obama and the California Way On Climate
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Barack Obama signaled his support for the California way on climate change policy in this address last November to the Governors' Global Climate Summit in LA.
President Barack Obama is choosing the California way toward dealing with climate change. What this means is that major action to curtail greenhouse gases can happen faster, and without dealing with a traditional lobby-dominated Congress, with California and other states leading the way and doing the work.
Here's how.
Yesterday, Obama instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to swiftly revisit its ...
William Bradley: "Post-Partisanship": How It Works, How It Doesn't
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Then President-elect Barack Obama, delivering his victory speech, stressed post-partisan themes.
Back in 2007, when he was still an underdog candidate for president jousting with John Edwards (remember him?), Barack Obama said that he liked the "post-partisan" posturings of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now, as president, he's adopted much the same tack, to the dismay of hyper-partisans of all stripes.
They ought to be dismayed, because it works. To a point.
But not in a linear sense.
Let's take a look at how it went in California, and ...
