{"id":14122,"date":"2015-08-16T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14122"},"modified":"2015-08-05T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T23:27:48","slug":"msnbc-obamas-climate-policy-is-practically-worthless-says-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/16\/msnbc-obamas-climate-policy-is-practically-worthless-says-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"(MSNBC) Obama\u2019s climate policy is \u2018practically worthless,\u2019 says expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: But for some who study climate change the only shame is this: Obama\u2019s plan does not go nearly far enough. It\u2019s meek and dangerously self-congratulatory, sapping the movement of urgency while doing almost nothing to maintain the future habitability of the earth.<br \/>\n\u201cThe actions are practically worthless,\u201d said James Hansen, a climate researcher who headed NASA\u2019s Goddard\u2019s Institute for Space S<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">tudies for over 30 years and first warned congress of global warming in 1988. \u201cThey do nothing to attack the fundamental problem.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be kidding,\u201d he wrote, when asked if the plan would make continued climate activism unnecessary. Obama\u2019s plan, and for that matter the proposed plan Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, he continued, \u201cis like the fellow who walks to work instead of driving, and thinks he is saving the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/obamas-climate-policy-practically-worthless-says-expert\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/obamas-climate-policy-practically-worthless-says-expert\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama.jpg\" alt=\"obama\" width=\"473\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama.jpg 473w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/obamas-climate-policy-practically-worthless-says-expert\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/obamas-climate-policy-practically-worthless-says-expert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: But for some who study climate change the only shame is this: Obama\u2019s plan does not go nearly far enough. It\u2019s meek and dangerously self-congratulatory, sapping the movement of urgency while doing almost nothing to maintain the future habitability of the earth. \u201cThe actions are practically worthless,\u201d said James Hansen, a climate researcher who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14125,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122\/revisions\/14125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}