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Don t have the ability to feed their families. and any leader of those countries has to ask themselves am i going to be sacrificing development and poverty alleviation in order to deal with climate change particularly since a lot of more developed countries are responsible for at least the current carbon emissions that are causing climate change. and so the answer to that is we ve all agreed a finance mechanism to help these countries adapt. in some cases, leapfrog old technologies so that instead of building old, dirty power plants, here s some smart, clean-energy plants. and we ll help you through technology transfer and financing so that you can achieve your development goals, but not add to the carbon problem. so far, with a target of 100 billion, we ve reached between private and public sources, 62 ....
Because china will screw it all up. look, the government can t change the weather. i said that in the speech. we can pass a bunch of laws that will destroy our economy, but it isn t going to change the weather. because, for example, there are other countries that are polluting in the atmosphere, much greater than we are at this point. china, india, all these countries that are still growing. and they re not going to stop doing what they re doing. america is a country, it s not a planet. america is a country, not a planet. we looked into that, that claim is rated true. sounds a little silly, but that is a much more sophisticated argument than, i am not a scientist. there is a bigger issue with just how a big a slice of carbon emissions come from china. that gray band at the bottom is china s contribution to carbon emissions. the increase in the rate of carbon emissions particularly from 2005 to 2011 is indeed being driven largely by china. so if the u.s. takes action, but china does ....
China doesn t, we still have a real big carbon problem. but here s the thing. if we do not act to reduce our own carbon emissions, you can almost guarantee china will not. if we do act, there s a possibility they might. and in fact, this is how it appeared to play out this week. epa seeks 30% cut in power plant carbon emissions by 2030. that was monday. china said on tuesday it will set an absolute cap on its co2 emissions from 2016, just a day after the united states announced its new targets for its power sector. now on day three, chinese adviser who made the relevant comments is walking it back a bit. what i said today is my personal view. the opinions expressed at the workshop were only meant for academic studies. what i said only represent the chinese government or any organization. but nevertheless, it still proves a point. sooner or later, china will have to respond to a growing global consensus about the need to reduce carbon emissions. and the u.s. is the single most importa ....
When conservatives aren t dodging climate change questions by saying they re not scientists, their other big dodge is that whatever we do doesn t matter. look, the government can t change the weather. i said that in the speech. we can pass a bunch of laws that will destroy our economy, but it isn t going to change the weather. because, for example, there are other countries that are polluting in the atmosphere, much greater than we are at this point. china, india, all these countries that are still growing. and they re not going to stop doing what they re doing. america is a country, it s not a planet. america is a country, not a laent. we looked into that, that claim is rated true. sounds a little silly, but that is a much more sophisticated argument than, i am not a scientist. there is a bigger issue with just how a big a slice of carbon emissions come from china. that gray band at the bottom is china s contribution to carbon emissions. the rate of increase from 2005 to 2011 is b ....
Is the first in a series of speeches on economic issues that the president is going to be traveling the country to deliver over the next few weeks. in today s speech, the president taughted the fact that during his presidency, we have doubled our investments as a nation in wind power and solar power. our priority as a country is to cut down on carbon emissions and invest in renewable energies that do not add to the carbon problem. clean up the environment and move to new cleaner sources of energy. republicans, congressional republicans decided they were going to prebutt the president s big speech today by announcing ahead of the speech that their plan on energy in the environment is to cut the budget of the epa by a third. oh, yeah, environmental protection, who needs it, especially now. house republicans ahead of president obama s big speech today moved to cut funding to the epa by 34%. and while the president is insisting that americans reduce carbon emissions, republicans included p ....