The Presidents Climate Action Plan was interesting to read through and enlightening.  I was curious to find that it really does take a stance in saying that climate change is an occurring phenomenon and it wasn’t wish-washy on the subject.  It even goes so far as to blame greenhouse gases as the catalyst in the system, admitting to the fact that we are driving global warming essentially.   While I may not be an expert on White House policy, I didn’t know they would take such an attackable position on the matter and in fact I’m glad that they do.  I believe that they’re correct in their statements.

I would also like to talk about their expanding clean energy and cut energy waste section. It consists of mostly as follows:

• Financing and regulatory support for renewable and clean energy projects
• Actions to promote fuel switching from oil and coal to natural gas or renewables
• Support for the safe and secure use of nuclear power
• Cooperation on clean coal technologies
• Programs to improve and disseminate energy efficient technologies

Short in my opinion.  This is far too short of a summary of goals for such an important world topic and I was bummed to see that be the case.  While these are good goals they really are just a start and I would have hoped for more out of our government.

The International efforts to address global climate change section was also a little short in my opinion and relatively devoid of any plan of action.  The way it addressed how we wanted to interact with other nations was weak and I believe a more aggressive position needs to be taken than what they propose.  Then again it is something and a tiny step in the right direction is still a step in the right direction.

Overall I think that the “plan” is more of a general addressing of the issues not really a plan.  While this may be the intended nature of the report I would hope for something a little more in depth and hopefully more promising.