Hillary Clinton has named a Climate Czar. Here’s the story below:
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday appointed a special envoy for climate change, vowing that the Obama administration would restore America’s credentials and leadership in shaping environmental policy.
Pledging that the United States would play a primary role in international efforts to stem global warming, Clinton named Todd Stern, a former White House assistant who was the chief U.S. negotiator at the Kyoto Protocol talks in her husband’s administration, to the post.
“American leadership is essential to meeting the challenges of the 21st century, and chief among those is the complex, urgent and global threat of climate change,” she said at a State Department ceremony held shortly after President Barack Obama announced new policies to allow states greater latitude in limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Sterns’ appointment, she said, sends “an unequivocal message that the United States will be energetic, focused, strategic and serious about addressing global climate change and the corollary issue of clean energy.”
“The urgency of the global climate crisis must not be underestimated,” Clinton said. “Nor should the science behind it or the facts on the ground be ignored or dismissed. The time for realism and action is now.”
And from the Climate Czar himself:
“Our scientists are telling us emphatically that the rate at which we’re warming the planet is unsustainable, and will cause vast and potentially catastrophic damage to our environment, our economy and our national security. And so the challenge before us is great, but so is the opportunity.”
“The time for denial, delay and dispute is over,” he added. “The time for the United States to take up its rightful place at the negotiating table is here.”
Stern explained the need for global cooperation. “Eighty percent of greenhouse gas emissions are produced outside the United States, and a rapidly growing percentage is produced in emerging market countries,” he said.
Coupled with today’s declaration by President Obama that ” “No single issue is as fundamental to our future as energy,” this appointment by Secretary of State Clinton signals that environmental issues will be a priority under this Administration. As Obama stressed, Climate Change is an environmental, economic and national security issue - an issue that we must take seriously now.
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So much ado about nothing! This issue is the worst violation of separation of church and state. The government is establishing a religion because “climate change” (the name used when we suffer through record cold) or “global warming” (the preferred name when it works) requires faith in whoever’s pushing it–Gore or other prophets of profit.
Can we stop calling such positions by the nickname of “czar?” I can’t think of anything more anti-democratic than the current trend of using “czar” as a nickname for positions overseeing some aspect of public policy. If we are giving these positions the kind of power that would justify the term “czar,” then no progressive or liberal (or small-d democrat) should support their creation–even if they show that a particular concern like catastrophic climate change is being taken seriously.