Comments on: Dear President Obama and Secretary Kerry: An Open Letter on Keystone XL https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/04/07/dear-president-obama-and-secretary-kerry-an-open-letter-on-keystone-xl/ Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:45:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: News and Analyses, A Foreign Perspective | themcglynn.com https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/04/07/dear-president-obama-and-secretary-kerry-an-open-letter-on-keystone-xl/#comment-479591 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:45:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=19281#comment-479591 […] month ago, more than 100 North American climate scientists and I warned President Obama and Secretary Kerry that they should reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline – indeed, that it would greaten the […]

]]> By: G https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/04/07/dear-president-obama-and-secretary-kerry-an-open-letter-on-keystone-xl/#comment-479590 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:52:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=19281#comment-479590 Excellent.

I’m inclined to think that Obama was delaying a decision on this until after the IPCC report, and is reading or has read it, and will end up deciding to veto the pipeline on the basis of the warnings in the report. This would be consistent with his approach to some other policy areas: “thinking about it,” collecting more information, then deciding in a manner that’s clearly influenced by the information.

]]> By: Smarter Than Your Average Bear https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/04/07/dear-president-obama-and-secretary-kerry-an-open-letter-on-keystone-xl/#comment-479589 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 05:26:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=19281#comment-479589 I hope it does some good but my cynicism is reaching astronomical heights these days. Science on the one hand,massive profits for a few on the other hand. Obama being the corporatist he is I fear will choose the latter over the former. Counting on him to walk his talk is not a safe, or imnsho, a wise bet. Not much alternative though with the majority of the politicians at almost every level of government fully bought and paid for.

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