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US vows to double cash for poor to deal with climate change
[ARABNEWS] The United States vowed Wednesday to double the money it spends helping poorer countries deal with the immediate effects of climate change.
Because we own the finest printing press in the world, bar none.
"We will not leave the most vulnerable nations among us to, quite literally, weather the storm alone," Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 told the UN climate summit in Gay Paree.
Congress approved this?
American officials said the US budget for so-called climate "adaptation" would double from around $430 million in 2014 to more than $800 million by 2020.

The increase would not come at the cost of Washington's existing climate commitments, but Congress will be asked to re-prioritise State Department and Treasury budgets.
Ah. Congress has not approved this, or even been presented with it.
The extra funding will be used for grant-based support for countries, a bigwig said, including schemes to protect mangrove forests or improve local weather forecasts.

"Obviously, the world's largest economies -- including the United States -- need to play a major role," Kerry said. "That's just common sense. That's why the United States has pledged $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund."
No, actually. The American president's Second Smartest Man in the Room has made commitments neither he nor the president can be sure will be kept.

Posted by: Fred 2015-12-10
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