Obama's actions demonstrate his willingness to trade the risk of real harm to the American economy from ill-advised executive orders and the redistribution of billions of dollars of American taxpayers’ money in additional giveaway
President Obama’s Pursuit of a Bad Global Climate Deal
On the heels of his Thanksgiving Day anointment of Syrian refugees as the new Pilgrims, President Obama flew off to Paris for a summit meeting launching the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). This conference is being heralded as the last opportunity for the world’s nations to come together and deal meaningfully with the deleterious impacts said to be caused by man-made climate change. Obama used the opportunity to hold the United States responsible for its “role in creating this problem” as the “world’s largest economy and the second-largest emitter.” After declaring that “we embrace our responsibility to do something about it,” Obama then proceeded to boast of “the ambitious investments in clean energy, and ambitious reductions in our carbon emissions” undertaken by the United States during his administration. That would include, of course, the draconian federal limits on power-plant carbon emissions that he has set down by executive order.