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Coral Davenport: U.S. Moves To Reduce Global Warming Emissions
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a series of moves aimed at cutting emissions of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, powerful greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. The White House has secured voluntary agreements from some of the nation’s largest companies to scale down or phase out their use of HFCs, which are factory-made gases used in air conditioning and refrigeration. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Red Bull, Kroger, Honeywell and DuPont, the company that invented fluorinated refrigerants, have agreed to cut their use and replace them with climate-friendly alternatives.
Over all, the administration estimated that the agreements announced on Tuesday would reduce cumulative global consumption of HFCs by the equivalent of 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2025. That is about 1.5 percent of the world’s 2010 greenhouse gas emissions, or the same as taking 15 million cars off the road for 10 years. “Every drumbeat in this symphony helps. It drives it along. This is part of that drumbeat,” said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, a research organization. “The benefits from cutting non-CO2 come much faster,” he added. “CO2 is like a supertanker – you can stop it, but it keeps drifting for a long time. Cutting HFCs are like stopping a steamboat. You stop it and that’s that.”
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U.S. moves to reduce global warming emissions nyti.ms/1mcSnEF
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President Obama is partnering with more than a dozen major U.S. companies to #ActOnClimate. Read more: ofa.bo/c0uJ
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 17, 2025
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Buon giorno, a tutti!
:-) Good afternoon to ya Bill!!! And thank you sooooooooooo much Nerdy!
You’re welcome, Chips.
Congrats Bill on #1
{{{{{VC}}}}}. I was pleased yo hear Offspring is doing well, sounded good! ;)
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Congrats, Bill R.
Good to see you in “furst” place!
Oh that obama guy again…
I shit you not… Bobby Jindal said that the president was a climate denier.
How in the hell?
It will be sad, nostalgic day in America (Jan 20, 2025)…. :(
Not after #LandslideDems2014!
PBO and FLOTUS will leave DC in a blaze of triumph.
And both will continue to make a positive difference in the underserved and overlooked in America and abroad.
Dreading that day, to be sure, but excited about the possibilities for real progress for Americans, and multi-national cooperation between people who have been engaged animosities of epic proportions and duration in so many parts of the world.
<3
x2 :grin:
Geez, willy a look where my reply landed?! :oops:
A ‘new’ face at the top of the hill - congrats, Bill!
GWCM vc :-)
It is nice to read that you received an actual phone call from offspring!!! It does sound like he’s adjusting to his new campus life pretty well. I am so happy to hear this! Give him my best…<3
Adjusting more or less - poor soul cannot cook! I feel for him, even though he’s not overly fussy about food. :-/ ;)
Oh lord, can’t cook :shock: Send care packages! He can’t afford to lose weight!!
I know. Sigh! I’m holding my breath until the first break.
Tell me what he likes and I’ll send international care packages :D
:grin: Hell-o, we’re talking food here. Real food that travels would have to be cooked upon arrival. He really cannot cook (has had little real interest in learning); that was supposed to have been our August focus.
I’m talking college food, canned soups, fruit, micowave veggies, etc.
I shall have to take you aside and school you, Gx2. Tut-tut-tut!
This young person has never had to heat up canned ‘stuff’ or microwave veggies, so I strongly doubt he`d know how to open a can of soup, assuming there is a can opener in his new abode. I do know there is a microwave ‘in the house’, but I cannot remember if I saw a stove. At the time I was so relieved to find a room in a clean house that other than checking the bathroom I didn’t really register much else. Anyhoo, when he gets a break to come home at the end of October (Reading Week), we’ll work together to minimize the prospect of fast food saturation &/ utter starvation. Don’t worry- no sense both of us worrying - he’ll make it through, hopefully without getting ill.
You’re a good mother VC, I know you will take care of your son. :-)
TY :grin:
I don’t suppose I’ll mention that son is legally an adult so …..
(O, alright. :grin: Seriously, I’ll email him a couple of simple suggestions to help him over the hump until the break. We went into this thinking he’d be living on campus, where there are cafeterias, and meal plans and the like; now we know otherwise.)
Not to change the subject, and I don’t want to take over Nerdy’s wonderful Climate Change themed-thread, but for those who are interested, I recommend that you follow this guy’s TL - For the last 20-30 mins or so, he has been tweeting a moment-by-moment account of what went down in the Mike Brown/Darren Wilson #Ferguson - and he has uncovered a huge, deliberate lie made by the police…
Done. I should have followed him awhile ago. He is the guy who is organizing voters, etc.
A bit wary of him Hopefruit, he seems to use every opportunity in this to have a go at PBO or AG Holder, eg
I respect his passion for this case, but just wonder about his agenda sometimes.
I’m wary too.
He seems to be the opposite of transparent, an opaque mole-type?
Good catch Chips - wasn’t even aware of this…And thankfully, he seemed to have gotten some appropriate pushback (I’m just posting one of the many examples).
Shaun needs to understand that PBO/Holder’s responsibilities in this case are very different from that of an online blogger & activist such as himself. They are bound by legal constraints that he does not have to think about. And it is foolish to interpret Holder/PBO’s personal thoughts/feelings in that regard.
Just read his timeline Hopefruit and although I do genuinely question his motives, and his utter stupidity in attacking PBO and the AG on this, his investigative work is just brilliant. It’s incredible that he is the first, as far as I know, to show that Michael Brown was 100 feet away, not 35, from Wilson when the shooting happened. In other words, he has proved murder.
My sentiments exactly Chips - this is a very significant revelation.
I suspect the FBI’s investigation is probably finding similar things - but like any government agency, their stuff takes time…
I’m not even a little convinced that @ShaunKing fully understand the depths of his white elitism right now.
Drat, left the “s” off “understands.”
He is offering some fact-based perspective that no one else is talking about. I have not read all of his tweets, so I take your word that he’s taken some swipes at our beloved PBO and AG Holder. I’ll pay more attention.
The #Ferguson police have lied about #MikeBrown from the get-go, and the MSM rarely mentioned these lies, even after they were discovered.
If only we could regulate the hot air that’s emitted from the GOP…
What are you saying, girl - it would likely be foul air!! I cannot think of anything good or helpful that has come from this bunch of GOPs
If we regulate it - we can reduce some of the emissions of foul air. Hmmmm, I think strong Dem voting in November might be what the scientist needs :-)
Yes, siree! I’m in full accord here.
Infuriating…..
The above was in response to this:
And not a peep from our complicit MSM.
The torches and pitchforks would be out if we some honesty in reporting.
I swear, CBS network radio news injects a “blame Obama” item in their national reports almost every hour, even when it’s clear Congress could use a little scrutiny. But Congress gets a free pass.
It infuriates me because many busy Americans get their news from quick listens to the radio and quick visits to news websites for headline news. And they don’t realize how much is being hidden from them, and twisted to shield the GOP Congress from them by the MSM.
Bob! thanks for the reminder. Off to watch now
His speech was excellent .
I’m listening to the replay and he has touched my heart with his speech and emotion.
And Kentucky wants to get rid of it and vote for Snitch McClownell?
So sad I read yesterday that many Kentuckians would rather vote Republican and die due to no healthcare than to vote Dem to continue having life saving healthcare.
This is in regards to the tweets about MTP falling back into 3rd place in ratings and how Chucky Toad couldn’t even hold viewers once PBO wasn’t on the show.
If anybody questions whether or not Politico is the go to place of RWNJ’s all you have to do is read the comments to the article that talked about the ratings fall. To spare you having to drag through too much sewer garbage, I’ll just reprint a couple:
The public refuses to watch these liberal HATEFUL attack shows. The liberal media networks have become a loudspeaker for the corrupt and hateful White House.
The public has wised up and knows they are being misled and manipulated by the liberal liars, deception brokers and frauds.
Was NBC expecting different results when they replaced a liberal cheerleader with a liberal cheerleader?
What is the definition of insanity again?
Sunday morning talk shows are mouthpieces for the White House, nothing more. Liberal media has never worked and it still doesn’t. When White House has a problem, they send out their “liar” for all four Sunday shows. How boring is that.
Once folks saw Todd’s lips affixed to Obama’s butt they knew some things never change at NBC…
Thios shows, more than anything else, just how pernicious the lie about liberal media is, when Todd can be called a butt-kisser to PBO and all the other nonsense. I really wonder what it must be like to live in some of these people’s heads, but the prospect is so terrifying, I don’t ever want to really find out. And, btw, only about two people challenged the concept that Todd is a liberal cheerleader.
That’s what the right pushes , on radio and tv. The liberal media meme is worse than the Jack the Ripper.
Maybe MSNBC can get little Luke Russert to host MTP as a homecoming of sorts.
Little Prince Luke is on MTP’s weekly panel because, you know, he knows stuff and other stuff. Just because.
NBC literally said it was moving rightward to undo the ‘leftward tilt’ of David Gregory(!)
An alternative universe, to be sure.
What is wrong with these people?
They must believe what they’re saying, but they’ve got blinders on when it comes to the real state of America now — income inequality is rising so fast it takes your breath away.
People who believe the comments you posted must also believe that evading taxes is their duty as a patriotic American.
Said by RWNJ’s who didn’t watch the show two weeks ago, and didn’t watch they John and Lindsey Hour every week for the last 6 years.
I would wager that some of the “commenters” on are actually right-wing employees of those rags…
Hello TOD Village!
Thursday. Sunny and my kind of Weather. High is in the 60s…..68F later today. I am in Heaven!
Have Not read anything yet. Going back to 4 posts.
Congrats to all the Au :star: winners……starting with Bill R. and the Au :star: winners, 3-4 post back.
WH presser with Josh “The Voice” Earnest is about to start LIVE.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/press-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-9
Linda Sanchez just went on a self serving rant in the House hearing on ISIL….waving her arms and being very aggressive and did not ask a question of Sec Hagel.
What an ass.
She’s being passive aggressive… All she cares about is immigration reform.
You follow?
Like my poor excuse for a rep, Luis Gutierrez.
Our district is true middle America: all colors and creeds, lower class, middle class and some upper middle class. We all live in, work in, and love our city.
Gutierrez did NOTHING to sign up his own constituents for ACA. We have plenty Hispanics in this district - could he bother to give a damn about the people who actually vote for him?
I will never forgive him for almost voting against ACA because it didn’t include undocumented aliens. Doom his entire district to no health care.
From the quotes in a series of tweets I’m reading, Hillary does find her voice when it comes to women’s issues. I’m impressed.
I saw some of her sit down interview with Walter Issacson on a range of issues. She had it together that’s for sure. It seems like when she takes her time she can really get to the heart of the matter.
I want to be happy with her if she’s our nominee. She is definitely genuine when it comes to women’s issues. I’ve been impressed - it’s almost poetic, inspirational yet fact-based.
She has a ways to go to win me over (of course I’ll vote for any Democratic nominee), but it’s nice to be able to say I trust her authenticity and commitment to women. What has been impressive, is that she is tying it with the economy, the strength of our communities - how everyone and the country benefits when women are equal. It’s damned impressive, I tell you.
Oh dear god! Please don’t fall for Hillary’s shtick.
She and her husband have stabbed President Obama in the back every goddamn time they’ve had the chance.
come on, Don. If she’s the nominee I hope I can vote for her with a little enthusiasm. When it comes to women’s issues she’s authentic.
On war, corporatism, and believing it’s still 1992 - I have serious problems with her. But if she is the nominee and can authentically win women, then it’s good, right?
Iowa Democrats say there’s room for a non-Clinton
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20140918_ap_475032957e7a40599a011ea9b9a0ba8f.html#P4f6zXu5QH13rpJO.99 ;
There definitely is. I will never forgive her or Bill for the treatment of PBO. But she is effective in this conference on women’s issues, and I hope I’m open-minded enough to give credit where credit is due.
Has she talked about equal pay in her public speeches?
She did today at this conference. Now, this is a Center for American Progress conference - will she be this “authentic” to the general public? If she doesn’t I’ll move my toe back onto the curb. Because I really don’t like her and hope we can get a 21st century POTUS in 2016.
That’s the difference between her & PBO. He doesn’t triangulate to please his audience.
She doesn’t know how to NOT triangulate. Which is why she so easily slipped on the racist mantel when it suited her purposes. It was appalling.
That’s why she is not authentic on any issue in my view.
Just sayin’, I’d love it if I didn’t loathe voting for her. It’s also true that when women vote in sufficient numbers we win. If she can articulate well to younger women that it’s not just about ‘separate’ women’s rights, but how their rights bolster the economy, community and stability of the nation, that would be a good thing. I’m hanging on to straws here, amk.
What is, however, unthinkable to me: ANY Republican gaining the WH. I can’t bear the thought.
I know. TINA factor. I hope younger dems jump into the fray after Nov elections.
#nomoreclintons
#Ever
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NerdyW is talking PBO leadership? I’m in. [Thanks, NerdyW.]
So many common sense, common good initiatives from him (healthcare, gun control, minimum wage raise, clean energy and so on), and yet 100% opposition from the thugs and lukewarm support at best from his own party. Is he titling at windmills here?
“.058824 percent”
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/09/17/058824-percent/
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Investigators backed away Wednesday from allegations a Democratic-backed group may have organized voter registration fraud, saying they can confirm 25 applications of more than 85,000 submitted to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
Chief investigator Chris Harvey, however, said the office needed more information from the New Georgia Project to confirm no more fraudulent forms existed — already, it has identified another 26 applications as suspicious. The state has extended a deadline for the group to get investigations such information through Sept. 26.
All voter registration forms have to be tuned in by law….regardless whether they have obvious errors on them.
Exactly!
That’s what New Georgia Project was saying. It wasn’t that they were trying to hide anything. Any fraud that was found was because *they* obeyed the law and *they* turned in the forms that would have led to the discovery. And of course, when you are processing large volumes of forms, there is bound to be an error here or there.
But as noted in the article below, there are a number of voter applications that the SoS office has not processed. So I guess this processing “slow down” is yet another way they are suppressing the vote.
“State says 25 voter applications of 85,000 “confirmed” forgeries”
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/georgia-ignoring-new-voter-applications-on-a-witch/nhPNH/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_homepage
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With the state’s Oct. 6 registration deadline quickly approaching, state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, D-Atlanta,and more than a dozen civil rights and religious leaders who support the New Georgia Project called on Kemp —the state’s top elections official — to focus on ensuring ballot access to thousands of new voters they and others have signed up this election year.
Speaking at the state Capitol ahead of the 3 p.m. special meeting of the Georgia Election Board, the leaders stood before 13 plastic bins filled with copies of applications they said have not been processed despite being turned in, in some cases, months ago.
“You don’t have to wear a hood or be a member of the Ku Klux Klan to be engaged in voter suppression,” said the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. “Mr. Secretary of State, stop this dog and pony show, all these accusations and fear campaigning, and do the job you were [elected] to do.”
Apple iPhone and iPad users have taken to social media to express their frustration over installing the company’s latest software update.
Many have resorted to deleting photos, videos and other files in order to free up space for the new version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS8, which requires up to 5.8GB of storage.
Apple has also removed apps for its new health software because of a bug.
One expert said Apple’s updates were often prone to “teething problems”.
Some vexed Apple users took to Twitter to express their annoyance, at one point causing the subject to be trending above the Scottish referendum.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29251961
ouch.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh…..
Now how will the media blame obama on this one?
This is good news. Now the Brits need to follow.
France’s President Hollande says he is ready to launch air strikes to help Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State group.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29255711
The rabid madness is a real disease.
And yet apparently there was a recent gallup poll that said the rethugs were better at defending murka and better at managing economy by 23 points, no less.
Excellent Post NW. Keeping it Real, Informative and Doing the Best Job over any US Journos these days. Thank you.
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Baby Boomers with $$$$$ will be going bonkers?
There it is. Gunnite folks.
Goooood NiGHt, dear Amk. Sleep tiGHt! ;)
That Missing 18/19 yrs old from Campus…..
I hope that she is found soon.
I was always taught to be aware of my surroundings….who’s watching me, who’s following me, and just be aware while you are out walking or driving.
Mother Earth……Mother Nature is incredibly forceful.
What a wonder…..breathtakingly beautiful.
Wow…..Now listening to WH presser for a few minutes…..and Earnest is asked about Debbie W-S? Wow…..Josh just gave a thunderous check-lists of the Job DW-S has done. Worth Listening to…… He mentioned that Ms DW-S is not a showboat….my verbiage…..not his.
Yeah, I saw the headline about PBO supposedly not liking DW-S. I thought to myself, “Really?” and moved on without opening the link.
Congratulations to Bill for the top spot. Off topic, but just for fun and in honor of the remarkable series, The Roosevelts:
Oh Judith, what an extraordinary photo and how very fortunate you were to meet Mrs. Roosevelt-truly one of my favorite people of all time.
Thanks, Jackie. That meeting left an indelible impression on me.
Well, well…..The Grey Lady is 163 yrs old.
MSNBC discussing ” ISIS takes more territory ” while showing a video that is a month old.
MSNBC = Libertarian garbage DUMP!
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/18/chat-away-438/