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Obama warns of climate change in Yosemite Park remarks
2016-06-18 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama warned of the effects of climate change in remarks from Sentinel Bridge at Yosemite National Park on Saturday. Obama touted the National Park System, saying its a true expression of our democracy and is something we have in common, something we share. The president touted the Every Kind in a Park initiative, launched early last year to help elementary-school children visit national parks for free, while interacting with a crowd of children. "We want to make sure that...
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Barack Obama Touts Environmental Record On Family Outing To National Parks
2016-06-18 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: President Barack Obama and the first family celebrated America's cherished natural heritage. Yosemite National Park: President Barack Obama and the first family celebrated America's cherished natural heritage Saturday during a weekend tour marking the 100th anniversary of the nation's vaunted national park system. Obama, also using the occasion to tout his environmental record, is the first sitting president since John F. Kennedy in 1962 to visit California's Yosemite National Park. Obama...
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Obama touts the wonders of Yosemite and national parks, plus the realities of climate change
2016-06-18 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: With Yosemite Falls in the background, President Obama told an audience Saturday that climate change is already impacting America`s national parks. "Make no mistake, climate change is no longer just a threat - it`s already a reality," he said from a lectern near Sentinel Bridge in Yosemite National Park. The first family`s trip to what, with about 4 million visitors a year, is the nation`s fourth most-visited park, comes as the National Park Service is approaching its 100th anniversary in August....
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Obama: Climate change biggest threat to U.S. national parks
2016-06-18 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama says climate change is the biggest threat to U.S. national parks. Obama says meadows are already drying out at Yosemite National Park in California, where he spoke Saturday after spending the night in the park with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha. He adds that a rabbit-like animal known as a pika is being forced further upslope in Yosemite to escape warming temperatures. Obama and his family are spending the weekend at Yosemite after touring an underground...
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Obama says climate change already damaging national parks
2016-06-18 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama said Saturday that climate change is already damaging America's national parks, with rising temperatures causing Yosemite's meadows to dry out and raising the prospect of a glacier preserve without its glaciers someday. "Make no mistake. Climate change is no longer just a threat. It's already a reality," Obama said from a podium, with Yosemite Falls, one of the world's tallest at 2,425 feet, as a backdrop. At the California park, where Obama was spending the weekend with...
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