He pointed to a letter from Governor Jindal to the President.
August 27, 2015
President Obama is heading to New Orleans Thursday (click here) to mark the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But there’s one subject Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal hopes the president won’t broach in his remarks to city residents: climate change.
Jindal, who’s also running for president on the Republican ticket, sent a letter to Obama Wednesday urging the president not to mention climate change during his trip to Louisiana.
“Although I understand that your emphasis in New Orleans will – rightly – be on economic development, the temptation to stray into climate change politics should be resisted,” Jindal states in the letter. “While you and others may be of the opinion that we can legislate away hurricanes with higher taxes, business regulations and EPA power grabs, that is not a view shared by many Louisianians. I would ask you to respect this important time of remembrance by not inserting the divisive political agenda of liberal environmental activism.”
This week, Jindal writes in the letter, should be solely about mourning those lost in the storm and celebrating the recovery New Orleans has made so far....
Governor Jindal doesn't know his constituency as pointed out by Senator Whitehouse; an article in the Times-Picayune, the premier newsprint to Louisiana.
August 27, 2015
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Even as Louisiana (click here) embarks on a multi-billion-dollar program to begin rebuilding its coast, evidence continues to mount that new coastal land will have to contend with a more rapid rise in sea level than projected in present state plans.
NASA officials Wednesday said the present rate of worldwide sea level rise has reached 3 millimeters a year (0.13 inch/year) and is increasing, the result of global warming. That compares to 1.7 millimeters a year for the entire 20th Century and 1.8 millimeters between 1961 to 2003, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
NASA's scientists studying sea level change say that means an increase of at least 3 feet in sea level, though they are not certain whether that level will be reached within 100 years or longer....
Senator Whitehouse points out there will be millions of dollars of Louisiana real estate lost to the climate crisis. In that reality is the fact the Republican Senate has done nothing to plan for the help to the residents that will lose their homes and land permanently.
Senator Whitehouse points out the Republican party will have to withdraw for their support of the fossil fuel industry, because the country is moving forward to ward off the impact of further carbon pollution that will prolong the dangers Americans face.
August 27, 2015
President Obama is heading to New Orleans Thursday (click here) to mark the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But there’s one subject Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal hopes the president won’t broach in his remarks to city residents: climate change.
Jindal, who’s also running for president on the Republican ticket, sent a letter to Obama Wednesday urging the president not to mention climate change during his trip to Louisiana.
“Although I understand that your emphasis in New Orleans will – rightly – be on economic development, the temptation to stray into climate change politics should be resisted,” Jindal states in the letter. “While you and others may be of the opinion that we can legislate away hurricanes with higher taxes, business regulations and EPA power grabs, that is not a view shared by many Louisianians. I would ask you to respect this important time of remembrance by not inserting the divisive political agenda of liberal environmental activism.”
This week, Jindal writes in the letter, should be solely about mourning those lost in the storm and celebrating the recovery New Orleans has made so far....
Governor Jindal doesn't know his constituency as pointed out by Senator Whitehouse; an article in the Times-Picayune, the premier newsprint to Louisiana.
August 27, 2015By
Even as Louisiana (click here) embarks on a multi-billion-dollar program to begin rebuilding its coast, evidence continues to mount that new coastal land will have to contend with a more rapid rise in sea level than projected in present state plans.
NASA officials Wednesday said the present rate of worldwide sea level rise has reached 3 millimeters a year (0.13 inch/year) and is increasing, the result of global warming. That compares to 1.7 millimeters a year for the entire 20th Century and 1.8 millimeters between 1961 to 2003, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
NASA's scientists studying sea level change say that means an increase of at least 3 feet in sea level, though they are not certain whether that level will be reached within 100 years or longer....
Senator Whitehouse points out there will be millions of dollars of Louisiana real estate lost to the climate crisis. In that reality is the fact the Republican Senate has done nothing to plan for the help to the residents that will lose their homes and land permanently.
Senator Whitehouse points out the Republican party will have to withdraw for their support of the fossil fuel industry, because the country is moving forward to ward off the impact of further carbon pollution that will prolong the dangers Americans face.
