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Obama Insists Climate Deal Will Outlast GOP 'Climate Denial'
2015-12-21 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: With a Paris climate agreement just over a week old, President Obama is singling out the GOP on climate change. In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, the president lambasted Republicans, whom he views as excessively contrarian on the issue. "The Republican Party in the United States is perhaps literally the only major party in the developed world that is still engaging in climate denial," he said. Here's his explanation for calling the GOP's stance an outlier on climate, even compared with...
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Obama says Paris climate pact will boost clean energy next decade
2015-12-18 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday said that the international agreement on climate change reached in Paris has set in place a demand for clean energy that will not be dependent on U.S. congressional action. "We now have a global marketplace for clean energy that is stable and accelerating over the course of the next decade," Obama said in a White House press conference. "That then creates a different dynamic that is independent of what Congress does, but also helps to shape what Congress...
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Obama: Paris climate pact can be a turning point for the world
2015-12-14 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama is celebrating victory in getting an international climate accord Saturday, saying it will help stop some of the worst effects of climate change from occurring. In a Saturday evening address at the White House, Obama took significant credit for the United States leading role in the the process toward the agreement. Today, the American people can be proud, because this historic agreement is a tribute to American leadership, he said, highlighting both the domestic climate actions...
Paris accord big win for Obama, climate dangers still loom
2015-12-12 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: On this unseasonably mild December Saturday in Washington, President Barack Obama had reason to bask in the sun. Across the Atlantic, international climate negotiators in Paris were poised to approve an agreement that owed much of its success to the willingness of the U.S. president to take on congressional Republicans and fossil-fuel-industry executives on an issue that consistently ranks among the lowest priorities for American voters. Though the international agreement still leaves the world...
Obama speaks to France's Hollande about Paris climate talks progress
2015-12-10 21:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande spoke by phone on Thursday to discuss progress in international climate change talks taking place in Paris, the White House said. "President Obama and President Hollande reviewed the progress that has been made and underscored their firm commitment to work together to reach an ambitious and durable climate change agreement," the White House said in a statement.
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