{"id":10150,"date":"2013-01-22T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2013-01-22T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:06:48","slug":"can-new-climate-vows-and-all-of-the-above-co-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=10150","title":{"rendered":"Can New Climate Vows and "All of the Above" Co-Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you undoubtedly heard, climate change was mentioned prominently<\/a> by President Obama in his second inaugural speech. Greens are applauding the strong words but based on his record (or lack thereof) on the climate issue (some believe<\/a> he is unfairly maligned), and his lofty (unfulfilled)\u00a02008 promises<\/a>, many are taking a wait-and-see approach.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, what to make of the President’s surprising elevation<\/a> of climate change into the public discourse? Let’s game out a few of the possibilities. Fair warning: What follows is a mixed metaphor palooza.<\/p>\n

Xanax Buy Without Prescription Buy Ultram Online One:<\/strong> He’s being a cruel tease, like Lucy when she promises Charlie Brown that she won’t yank the football away just as he’s about to kick it. Charlie Brown always gives Lucy another chance and she always pulls the football back. I’m not that cynical to believe this is what will happen with Obama’s latest vows on climate change.<\/p>\n

Two:<\/strong>\u00a0He’s going to play small ball. This is a strategy used by smart, heady baseball teams that don’t hit a lot of home runs. Despite his grand talk yesterday, Obama is not going to be swinging for the fences. Meaning, no big legislative proposals that reduce carbon emissions via cap & trade or a carbon tax. He realized in his first term that he doesn’t have sufficient power for this. But playing small ball<\/a> can still yield big results.<\/p>\n

https://andiroberts.com/complexity-leadership/ Order Hydrocodone Online Three<\/strong>: He’s pulling a bait and switch. Obama is still going to use his executive authority to implement the kinds of policies that will help reduce carbon emissions. That’s the bait. But he’s also going to (presumably) approve the Keystone pipeline<\/a>, to keep the oil & natural<\/del> gas boom<\/a> booming. That’s the switch. [Note: The shale oil that would be shipped from Canada is still expected to produce<\/a> a surge of industry-related jobs in the United States.]<\/p>\n

Get Online Xanax Prescription Now the Keystone pipeline has become somewhat of a\u00a0line in the sand<\/a> for the climate movement, so it’s unlikely that maneuver will be received well–to say the least. As Joe Romm put it<\/a>\u00a0after Obama’s speech yesterday:<\/p>\n

Buy Carisoprodol Online We will soon see if these [strong climate] words have any meaning whatsoever \u2014 since approving the Keystone XL pipeline would utterly vitiate them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription Hmm. President Obama has already made it clear that he’s not going to get in the way of the domestic oil & gas boom. I don’t think he has any choice on that matter, either, given how important it has been to the U.S. economic recovery. Moreover, the next four years are going to see a continuation of Obama’s “all of the above energy<\/a>” policy, which is already set in motion.<\/p>\n

Clonazepam Purchase Online This reality will have to somehow be squared with whatever actions the President takes on climate change during his second term.<\/p>\n

https://plazadelencuentro.com/livros/ Valium 10Mg Buy Online UPDATE:<\/strong> Just caught up with this typically nuanced Revkin take<\/a>\u00a0at Dot Earth.<\/p>\n

http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1536 UPDATE:<\/strong> The Guardian<\/em> has a story up on the Keystone pipeline, calling a decision on it “a litmus test of the administration’s environmental credentials entirely in Obama’s hands.”<\/p>\n

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[A 2011 anti-Keystone pipeline protest in front of the White House. Source\/Guardian<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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