[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: President Obama steps to the plate

Tue Jun 25 12:34:21 PDT 2013

The video is now posted on www.whitehouse.gov on the home page.  It was a good speech.  Obama claimed that the US has already reduced carbon emissions for instance, though he did give one shameless plug for the new nuclear power plants that are being built in the US.

John Thielking

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 From: Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net>
To: John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com>; GPSCC <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: President Obama steps to the plate

I am sorry to hear the coverage was so poor.
I wonder why KPFA did not do better.

A tweet from Bernie Sanders:

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  Bernie Sanders        ✔ @SenSanders

No one who is serious about reversing global warming could support the 
#KeystoneXL pipeline. #NoKXL #ForwardOnClimate
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Gerry

John Thielking wrote:
> The news coverage of Obama's speech on climate change was disgraceful.
> Not even kpfa.org had full coverage of his speech. CNN had a snippet on
> their news channel and claimed that the whole speech was being broadcast
> on cnn.com/live. But going to that site I saw nothing at all, not even
> the George Zimmerman trial, which CNN devoted most of their cable
> broadcast to.  I'm not a big fan of Obama and I think that his speech
> would be mostly a "do as I say and not as I do" type of thing, but it at
> least deserves to be heard by as wide an audience as possible. I suppose
> it will be posted to the whitehouse.gov web site later. Oh well....
>
> John Thielking
>
>
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> *From:* Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net>
> *To:* GPSCC <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, June 24, 2013 1:48 PM
> *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: President Obama steps to the plate
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     President Obama steps to the plate
> Date:     Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:38:33 +0000
> From:     Bill McKibben - 350.org <organizers at 350.org
> <mailto:organizers at 350.org>>
> Reply-To: organizers at 350.org <mailto:organizers at 350.org>
> To:     Gerald Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net
> <mailto:gerrygras at earthlink.net>>
>
>
>
> Friends,
>
> Well, some good news: five years in, we're starting to see at least the
> outlines of a strategy from President Obama to deal with climate change.
>
> He's clearly heard the clamor that you have raised, and Tuesday at 1:35
> PM EDT, he will make a speech in DC laying out his plans.
>
> *We hope you'll join in watching it -- there will be a 350.org virtual
> watch party, hosted on our site, where you can watch and see analysis as
> it happens via our Twitter account.* For those of you who use twitter,
> tweet in with the hashtag #ForwardOnClimate to be a part of the
> conversation on our site. If you can bring together friends or even some
> coworkers around for a quick break to watch with us, that would be
> excellent too.
>
> *To join the watch party, just click here when the time comes:
> act.350.org/thanks/watch-party-obama-climate-speech/
> <http://act.350.org/go/3352?t=1&akid=3281.8388.T_AP3U>*
>
> *If you'd like a reminder to tune in, just click this link and we'll
> send you an email a little bit before the speech tomorrow:
> act.350.org/sign/obama-watch-party-reminder/
> <http://act.350.org/go/3353?t=2&akid=3281.8388.T_AP3U>*
>
> *As for the speech itself, here's what I'm hoping for: tough action on
> emissions from coal-fired power plants.* Local activists and groups like
> the Sierra Club have done a great job in facing down the expansion plans
> of the coal industry in recent years, blocking dozens of proposed coal
> plants. The industry is weakened enough that the administration may be
> willing to challenge it more directly with regulations on existing power
> plants -- and this would be indeed be an important step forward.
>
> *And here's what I'm not expecting: anything at all about the Keystone
> XL pipeline.* That is still wending its way through a twisted
> bureaucratic process. But if I was being optimistic, I'd say tomorrow's
> speech makes eventual victory more likely: the President is above all a
> logical man, and kicking off a climate action plan only to approve a tar
> sands pipeline is like saying you're ready to quit smoking then buying a
> carton of Marlboros.
>
> At any rate, we'll do all that we can think of to keep up the pressure.
> If this were a race, you can think of this speech as the starter's
> pistol, after a long slog to get the runners all lined up. There is
> still a race yet to run.
>
> Your hard work made this possible. Given the siege of extreme weather we
> now see daily around the planet, it's one of many steps we need to take.
> But it is in the right direction, and that’s good news.
>
> Bill McKibben
>
> PS -- Since this seems to be an important moment, please share this
> photo with your Facebook friends to let them know that this is all
> happening tomorrow:
>
> Click here to share this image
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