Last Friday Obama proposed a $1 billion “Climate Resilience Fund” that — if he can get Congress to agree to it — would help communities adapt to the current and future effects of climate change.
However, never mentioned by the media and elsewhere is the fact that Obama has been doing what he's proposing above since his first year in office. That year he implemented the Global Change Research Act.
The Global Change Research Act was passed by Congress in 1989 and signed into law by Bush Senior in 1990. It sat on the shelf through both the Clinton and Bush Jr. administrations until Obama began to implement it during his first year in office. Since then the 13 Administrative agencies under the Executive Branch has been quietly drawing up the rules and regs. All Administrative agencies are now required by law to take into account climate change through both mitigation and adaptation when they issue rules/regs.
This is a major deal that has gone completely unnoticed by the media and I've never understood why. Maybe it's by design by Obama because it's very well possible that if it had been on the Repub's radar they would have obstructed and filibustered it to an early death.
I belong to a grassroots environmental group that works on national forest issues. Our group was called into the local federal Forest Service office last year to comment on their progress regarding the Global Change Research Act. Until then we had never heard of it nor were we aware that the USDA as well as all other gov. agencies were hard at work on the GCRA. I've posted info on this everytime an article on the subject appears on various venues. To date, I'm aware of no media outlet that has reported on this law. Why?
http://globalchange.gov/...