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'We Need to Act': Transcript of Obama's Climate Change Speech
2013-06-26 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Transcript of President Barack Obama's speech at Georgetown University announcing his new climate-change policy: On Christmas Eve, 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8 did a live broadcast from lunar orbit. So Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders -- the first humans to orbit the moon -- described what they saw, and they read Scripture from the Book of Genesis to the rest of us back here. And later that night, they took a photo that would change the way we see and think about our world. It was...
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Obama's Climate Strategy Doesn't Require Congressional Approval
2013-06-26 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: President Obama unveiled a sweeping plan Tuesday designed to deal with climate change. For the first time, carbon emissions from power plants would be regulated. The policy, which can be implemented by the administration without congressional approval, calls for a broad range of actions, including steps to deal with extreme weather events that are already occurring. It wasn't a coincidence that the president chose to give this speech to a young crowd - at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C....
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Obama's Challenge on Climate Change
2013-06-25 23:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obama today announced a broad attack on climate change. His hope is to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and he aims at every target imaginable -- every target within his authority, that is. Included in his plan are solar and wind projects on U.S. public lands, new energy-efficiency standards and fuel-economy requirements, and greater limits on greenhouse-gas emissions of all kinds. Unfortunately, he had to leave out any strong action Congress could take. That includes a meaningful...
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Obama's climate speech: 'It is time for Congress to share his ambition'
2013-06-25 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science President Obama's speech was very clear on the scale of dangers posed by climate change and the responsibility of the United States and other countries to act. Recent experience shows that the United States can cut emissions and grow. The United States, with its technology and entrepreneurship, can lead this new low-carbon growth story. The president...
First Take: Looking at President Obamas Climate Action Plan
2013-06-25 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: With todays announcement of a national climate action plan, President Obama is pushing forward to tackle the urgent challenge of climate change. This is the most comprehensive climate plan by a U.S. president to date. If fully and swiftly implemented, the Obama Administration can truly reset the climate agenda for this country. The plan looks to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions in a comprehensive way and takes on the question of how to protect the country from the devastating climate-related...
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