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June 21, 2016
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Barack Obama warned on Saturday that climate change could ravage many of Americas vaunted national parks, criticizing political opponents who pay lip service to areas of natural beauty while opposing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
During a visit to Yosemite national park, Obama said climate change was no longer a threat, its a reality. The first sitting president to visit Yosemite since John F Kennedy in 1962 said the famed glacial valley was already experiencing changes due to rising temperatures.
Here in Yosemite, meadows are drying up, bird ranges are shifting farther northward, mammals are being forced further upslope, Obama said. Yosemites famous glacier, once a mile wide, is almost gone. We are also facing longer, more expensive wildfire seasons.
Rising temperatures could mean no more glaciers in Glacier national park, no more Joshua trees in Joshua Tree national park. Rising seas can destroy vital ecosystems in the Everglades and at some point could even threaten icons like the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Thats not the America I want to pass on to the next generation.
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Great photos at link
Obama at Yosemite attacks 'lip service' to natural beauty amid climate inaction
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/18/yosemite-obama-national-parks-climate-change<snip>
Barack Obama warned on Saturday that climate change could ravage many of Americas vaunted national parks, criticizing political opponents who pay lip service to areas of natural beauty while opposing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
During a visit to Yosemite national park, Obama said climate change was no longer a threat, its a reality. The first sitting president to visit Yosemite since John F Kennedy in 1962 said the famed glacial valley was already experiencing changes due to rising temperatures.
Here in Yosemite, meadows are drying up, bird ranges are shifting farther northward, mammals are being forced further upslope, Obama said. Yosemites famous glacier, once a mile wide, is almost gone. We are also facing longer, more expensive wildfire seasons.
Rising temperatures could mean no more glaciers in Glacier national park, no more Joshua trees in Joshua Tree national park. Rising seas can destroy vital ecosystems in the Everglades and at some point could even threaten icons like the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Thats not the America I want to pass on to the next generation.
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Great photos at link
May 14, 2016
This tells me a lot about Lesy
I wanted to convey in the film the real pathos contained in a four line newspaper report that simultaneously records and dismisses the end of someones life.[1]
March 2, 2016
DUzy
January 19, 2016
Rachel got a 'big up' from the mayor and Chris Hayes
Michael Moore will be on Chris Hayes tomorrow night.
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