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Obama rolls out climate change challenge
2014-06-14 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama laid out a billion-dollar climate change challenge on Saturday, urging the nation to help combat the effects of natural disasters. Can you imagine a more worthy goal, a more worthy legacy, than protecting the world we leave to our children, the president said as he delivered the commencement address at the University of California, Irvine. "U.S. action is critical on climate change, as the world is watching and will follow the U.S.s lead, he said. This is a fight America must...
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Obama calls for climate change action in California commencement speech
2014-06-14 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama on Saturday repeated his recent appeals for action to prevent climate change, while speaking at the University of California, Irvine graduation ceremony. The question is not whether we need to act, the president said, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. The overwhelming judgement of science, accumulated and reviewed over decades, has put the that to rest. The question is whether were willing to act. Obama, who was speaking to mark 50th anniversary of the ceremony at which the UC...
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Obama says climate change deniers ignoring science
2014-06-14 21:13:00| 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 a call to action 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. "Many others duck the question by saying, 'Hey, I'm not...
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Obama Went On Huge Rant Against Climate Deniers In Commencement Speech
2014-06-14 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: With a feisty tone and a touch of aggravation, President Barack Obama on Saturday laid into Republicans who question the science of climate change and urged graduating college students to take on global warming as a cause. A few weeks after unveiling rules to limit carbon emissions from power plants, Obama used a commencement address for the University of California, Irvine, to rally support from young people and slam opponents for denying that climate change is real. "When President Kennedy...
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Obama renews climate change push
2014-06-14 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: President Barack Obama renewed his campaign to curb carbon emissions Saturday, saying the debate over climate change is over. Obama, who made the battle against climate change a core promise of his 2008 election campaign, has been stymied at the federal level by opposition from lawmakers. Congress "is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence," Obama told a crowd of more than 30,641 people, including thousands of graduates at the University of California,...
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