Posted on 11/30/2015 4:49:47 PM PST by jazusamo
(CNSNews.com) - Speaking today at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, President Barack Obama predicted that, unless the nations of the world acted now to combat climate change, countries would be submerged, cities would be abandoned, fields would no longer grown, and there would be new conflicts and floods of refugees.
Here is a key excerpt from the president's speech, which is available in full at the White House website :
This summer, I saw the effects of climate change firsthand in our northernmost state, Alaska, where the sea is already swallowing villages and eroding shorelines; where permafrost thaws and the tundra burns; where glaciers are melting at a pace unprecedented in modern times. And it was a preview of one possible future -- a glimpse of our children's fate if the climate keeps changing faster than our efforts to address it. Submerged countries. Abandoned cities. Fields that no longer grow. Political disruptions that trigger new conflict, and even more floods of desperate peoples seeking the sanctuary of nations not their own.
Obama's full speech at Paris conference
That future is not one of strong economies, nor is it one where fragile states can find their footing. That future is one that we have the power to change. Right here. Right now. But only if we rise to this moment. As one of America's governors has said, "We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change, and the last generation that can do something about it."
I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.
The f*%$ is going to ratchet up the rhetoric to a fever pitch, then declare he can no longer wait and whip out an EO.
Cruz will take every Obama EO and throw them in the bin. Live by the EO...die by the EO.
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo emitted more so-called greenhouse gases and pollutants than all of the activity generated by man throughout human history up until that moment.
And Mt. Pinatubo did more good for the environment in the long run than harm.
Can’t Hussein just abandon the Rainbow Mosque to save da Erf?
A few degress warmer and humanity thrives. It has happened before. It was warmer during the Minoan and Roman peroids.
Colder kills.
I wonder how much money he's planning on getting for the "CLIMATE CHANGE" bovine excrement he's been spewing for years.
My most fervent wish.
More per year than all the gasoline burned in US cars and light trucks.
What did narcissistic lying idiots ever do to be compared to Barack Obama? This is completely unfair to narcissistic lying idiots!
What is the action we must take now that they are proposing?
Amen to that.
Dogs and cats living together!!!
He was the one to keep them tides from rising. If only he were around for Atlantis!
ARE WE THERE YET!?
‘CUZ I SURE AS HELL AM TIRED OF WAITING!!!
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