Obama Pushes $1 Billion Climate Slush Fund

by JASmius

Oh, I'm sorry, climate "resilience" fund.  Even though the planetary climate is robustly and immensely resilient already entirely independent of anything poor, little homo sapiens could ever do.  Which is probably why I glossed over "resilience" with "slush" instead.

One of the reasons, anyway:

President Barack Obama will push a $1 billion "Climate Resilience Fund" he is seeking as part of his upcoming budget, along with other administrative actions in a speech in Fresno, California, while continuing to make the case that climate change is hurting Americans.

If there were "climate change" - aka "global warming" - wouldn't it be obvious already?  And if it were, why would the case have to be made that it was hurting Americans?  On the other hand, it really is patently obvious that government environmental policy directing the Imperial Valley - once the salad bowl of the country and in which I do believe Fresno is located - to be sucked dryer than Uncle Owen's and Aunt Beru's deuterium farm on Tatooine, all on behalf of some bait chum called the Delta Smelt, is hurting Americans much more than the fictional, Roland Emmerich-esque twaddle The One is hocking.  As a matter of fact, if the Delta Smelt were left to the snapping turtles and irrigation spigots were turned back on, I'd bet the revival of agriculture and business and, well, life in the IV would just possibly raise an additional billion bucks worth of tax revenues to pay for O's sl....um, "resilience" fund.

Make the greenstremists, in other words, have to prioritize like the rest of us.  You want huge piles of Fed waste paper to wallow naked in, you gotta give up your over-microwaved anchovies and let working- and middle-class Americans resume earning a living.  At least enough to be able to afford Delta Smelt sticks on Friday nights.

Ah, but what does Red Barry plan to do with this filched luchre?  Exactly what he did with the last slush fund he scored off of British Petroleum four years ago:

Money from the fund would go toward research on the impact of climate change, reports the White House, while bankrolling "breakthrough technologies and resilient infrastructure."

I.e. money would be invested in fabricating justifications for more money, and Solyndras as far as the eye can see.  Odd that his nervous complaint over income inequality is suddenly nowhere to be seen.

“The idea of a climate resilience fund is something that should be and we expect will be supported across all parts of the country … the need to be prepared, the need to take steps that help our farmers and businesses and communities deal with the consequences from severe weather events is evident to everyone across the country,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said Friday, the Washington Times reports.

Weather ain't climate, Skeeziks.  Isn't that what you fizz-kids are always clucking at us?

The president "is going to continue to make the case that climate change is already hurting Americans around the country," said White House spokesman Matt Lehrich. "It will only get worse for our children and grandchildren if we leave it for future generations to deal with."

Funny, that's what we keep telling him about the federal debt, which is now a second moon orbiting the Earth and, you know, real, but he doesn't seem to able to muster two Titlists out of his golf bag about that threat.

But no single extreme weather event has yet been attributed directly to climate change, and Obama plans to stress the scientific explanations about how climate change worsens events like droughts, said John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

IOW, "climate change" is a risible fraud, so he's going to MSU like he's never MSU'd before.  Well, play to your strengths, I always say.