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Obama Says Climate Change Can No Longer Be Ignored as Jeb Bush Admits Hes Concerned
2015-04-20 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In honor of Earth Day this Wednesday, President Obamas weekly Saturday morning address to the nation was titled Climate Change Can No Longer Be Ignored. He opened with an oblique dig at Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, head of the Senate Environment Committee, who disproved global warming on the floor of the Senate by throwing a snowball. 2014 was the planets warmest year on record, said Obama. Fourteen of the 15 hottest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century....
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President Obama and climate change: 5 things I learned
2015-04-11 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: President Barack Obama took part in a roundtable discussion this week on climate change, refocusing on the issue from a public health vantage point. After the event at Washington's Howard University on Tuesday, Obama sat down with me for a one-on-one interview. I asked him about the science behind climate change and public health and the message he wants the average American to take away, as well as how enforceable his action plan is. Here are five things I learned: 1. College was an eye-opener....
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Why Obama linked climate change to his daughters asthma
2015-04-10 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: YOU HEAR THAT? Its President Obama dropping another climate gauntlet. The core of the presidents announcements late Tuesday was a set of initiatives meant to track, mitigate, and inform the public about the dangers of diseases exacerbated by human-caused global warming. But the vehicle for these policies was in its own way even more interesting: an anecdote about his daughter Malias childhood struggles with asthma. Malia had asthma when she was 4, and because we had good health insurance,...
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Obama: Daughter's asthma attack made climate change personal
2015-04-08 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that his push to address climate change has been partly influenced by a frightening moment when his daughter Malia had an asthma attack as a 4-year-old. What I can relate to is the fear a parent has, when your 4-year-old daughter comes up to you and says, Daddy, Im having trouble breathing. The fright you feel is terrible, the president said on ABCs Good Morning America Wednesday. And if we can make sure that our responses to...
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Obama Says Climate Change Is Hazardous to Your Health
2015-04-08 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This week, President Obama is launching a slew of new initiatives to focus on how climate change affects community health and how those effects can be better addressed. He kicked it off by declaring April 6-12 National Public Health Week to emphasize the importance of engaging the public health system as well as private companies and local governments to take action to mitigate the health impacts of climate change. We know climate change is not a distant threat, said the White House press release....
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