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Obama calls out climate deniers, asks young people to force climate change issue
2014-06-16 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In giving the commencement address at the University of California-Irvine on Saturday, President Obama called on young people to push the climate change issue past its current partisan divide. The speech was particularly notable for Obamas forthright confrontation of climate change deniers. He took oblique shots at the silly pseudo-scientific proclamations of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). (Inhofe claimed last year that We`re in a cycle now that all the scientists...
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Australia Sees Obama Climate Change Plan as All Talk, No Action
2014-06-15 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Australias chief trade-deals negotiator has labeled the bid by President Barack Obama to cut U.S. power-plant emissions as lacking substance. Theres no action associated with it, Trade Minister Andrew Robb said in a Sky News interview from Houston, Texas, where he was accompanying Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Abbott, who is seeking to dismantle Australias carbon-price mechanism before it hosts Group of 20 leaders in November, isnt supporting Obamas bid to pressure India, China...
Obama lambastes climate change deniers as radical fringe' in California speech
2014-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
McClatchy: President Obama on Saturday tore into those in Congress and the media who deny climate change, calling them a radical fringe that threatens the future by shutting down debate even among those who might agree with the warnings. "Today's Congress is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence. They'll tell you climate change is a hoax, or a fad. One says the world might actually be cooling," he said in a commencement address to 8,000 graduates of the University...
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Obama ridicules critics over climate change
2014-06-15 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: President Obama, apparently frustrated at opposition to his proposals to combat climate, resorted to ridicule Saturday. "It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody who says the problem you're trying to solve simply doesn't exist," Obama said during commencement exercises Saturday at the University of California-Irvine. When President Kennedy vowed to send astronauts to the moon during the 1960s, Obama said by way of example, critics said the mission might be too long or expensive. "But...
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Obama Bashes Climate Deniers Who Fear Being Ousted 'By A Radical Fringe'
2014-06-15 07:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama said denying climate change is like arguing the moon is made of cheese, as he issued a call to action on global warming to Saturday's graduates of the University of California, Irvine. Obama issued the call to the tens of thousands gathered at Angel Stadium even though he said Congress "is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence" and say climate change is a hoax or fad. Obama said others duck the question. "They say, 'Hey, look,...
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