Sentences with phrase «what obama»

What the Obama administration action shows is that there have been some serious gaps in the public debate in Australia about the true cost of our «cheap» coal - fired electricity.

Even if you've fully digested the details, Cambridge Analytica's use of personal data for the Trump campaign in 2016 wasn't significantly different than what the Obama campaign pioneered four years earlier — although the machinations that Cambridge Analytica used to obtain the data were unquestionably much sketchier.

After Facebook «realized» what the Obama campaign staffers had been doing, they preferred to turn a blind eye for one simple reason: «they were on our side,» Davidsen claimed.

The better solutionI is what Obama and a number of American lawyers and law professors propose — reduce law school to two years.

Canada should have a Chief Technology Officer, similar to what Obama is doing in the US.

The theme du jour is Inventor's Day, and true to form, the review discusses a variety of innovation - related topics, such as what an Obama administration means for technology and IP and the Bilski decision, which sets more rigorous standards of eligibility for business methods patents.

This blawg keeps tabs on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, devours and analyzes draft reports on gene patents, and speculates on what the Obama administration will mean to patent law.

What Obama said is that climate change is a bigger threat to the US population.

This is what Obama is about to punish us for: inevitable variability.

Given President Obama's focus on the climate and green jobs, it may be a surprise that much of what the Obama administration has done on those issues is implementing a bill that Congress passed with bipartisan support and President George W. Bush signed: the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA).

What Obama apparently doesn't realize is that the phrase carbon pollution can cause climate change, but not as he and most people understand.

The G8 meeting last week — the last get - together of the leaders of the world's major industrialized nations before the United Nations climate summit in December — was loaded with expectations as to what Obama & Co might give climate negotiators to take with them to Copenhagen.

The many self - referencing blog lists and op pieces on «what Obama should do» are so similar, it's as if a mind virus has taken over the self - appointed spokespersons of all things environmental.

And, at the very least, that's what an Obama - backed EPA would do.

Here's The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza: «No matter what Obama and his advisers said... there is now no chance that the Administration's climate - change proposal will come up for a vote in the Senate prior to the 2010 election.

And it's still unclear what Obama could accomplish even if Sandy rebirthed him as a die - hard climate activist.

And it seems to be what the Obama administration via the EPA is trying to get through the back door on the USA.

In fact, if Congress can't pass a climate bill this year, this is exactly what the Obama administration should do.

That 2020 target is what Obama pledged at Copenhagen, but it's still remarkably weak if we're trying to help avert a 2 °C rise in temperature.

More recently, what Obama claimed was an Arab Spring of democracy with riots in Egypt that overthrew Hosni Mubarak's government, were actually food riots.

I wonder just what Obama is really up to, he just can't really believe in his spouted ideology.

He told the Washington Post back in October that the sale wasn't really news — just what Obama had proposed, plus a few percent.

The delegation should also clarify what the Obama Administration will do to put the US on track to the near - elimination of emissions by mid-century called for by the scientific community.

But that necessary first step is exactly what Obama is doing everything in his power to take with his remaining time.

We asked a well known climate expert, Dr. Timothy Ball, if what Obama's NOAA / NCDC climate scientists are doing is common in the general science community: that is, is it common to constantly revise historical empirical evidence?

But we're in some sense responsible for the former, though not the latter, which is why speculation — as to what Obama's environment czarina will do next month, or whether democracy is finished — is a legitimate part of all political debate.

You are referring to a deliberate distortion of what Obama said to a guy who distorted his own credentials and was used as a pet «victim» by the Republican presidential campaign.

Portions of the Met Office submission read a little like what Obama might write in defense of Obamacare — pretty comical.

But what Obama did not tell Americans, and will undoubtedly not admit tonight, is that the accord is dangerously flawed.

That includes the agency's regulatory budget being dropped $ 43 million from fiscal 2016 and $ 187 million below what Obama asked for in his fiscal 2017 request...

But rather than ask for an equitable distribution of the pain that goes with substantial across - the - board reductions in carbon emissions, what the Obama Administration did instead was to bundle GHG reductions with reductions in other kinds of pollutants such as mercury and sulfur into a single plan targeted mostly at the coal industry — thus guaranteeing that their plan would be highly vulnerable to lawsuits of the kind that Lawrence Tribe is now leading.

This two - day meeting, which begins on Monday in Paris (after informal discussions today), is the second of three sessions under what the Obama administration calls the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate.

And that's what the Obama administration did today on the Keystone XL Pipeline, which has been proposed as a way to carry bitumen, a tarry oil precursor, from vast Canadian deposits to American refineries.

Here's what Obama said in a memorandum to Congress in 2014:

First up, a look at what Obama's got in store for US transportation — like more funding for a massive high speed rail system and ideas for a controversial tax that will charge car owners a fee for every mile they drive.The proposed budget would take effect in the fiscal year 2010 (which begins October 1st, 2009 — hey, I don't make the rules.

Here's part of what Obama said:

No matter what the Obama's wind up with — a dog is a dog is a dog; or better yet, how about two dogs?

Many falsely claim that this option is now made available by a new government program or policy sponsored by U.S. President Barak Obama (read about what Obama Student Loan Forgiveness really is).

In effect, the higher premium is a done deal, if that's what the Obama Administration wants.

Remember what it felt like the last eight years when you tried to question what Obama did and were told to shut up, that questioning him made you a racist or a traitor.

What Obama and his government need to decide right now is who is the more powerful, them or Amazon.

And it could signal a return of the mindset that prevailed last decade, with some states dumbing down standardized tests so their schools would look successful, in what Obama has derided as a «race to the bottom.»

«There is actually not that big a space between his record and what Obama has done.»

What Obama made sound like a revolution seems more like a slog, such accounts and recent reports indicate.

«Our laws that we have in place here in our state do not really kind of match up with what the Obama administration is looking for,» he said last month.

I suppose that is what Obama's speech — and educators» reactions to it — shows: that Obama is in a unique position to guide education into the 21st century, even if he has too many, mostly borrowed ideas.

What Obama doesn't seem to buy yet is that the government already does a lot.

We're rolling into the final sprint to the election; this makes it a good time to look back at what the Obama administration has done with its time in office.

What Obama does not realize is that if he does let Iran acquire nuclear capability, his «legacy» will be just like that of Britain's Neville Chamberlain — a historical laughing - stock — who held up a piece of paper he foolishly thought assured peace with Hitler.

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