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.
All the time he was speaking he was happy and smiling. Must have been excited about driving another stake in our economy.
Well if the lying jackass is so concerned about the environment what the hell is his crooked lying ass doing in Paris after emitting all that carbon flying there and the carbon spewed by security and his sycophants that followed him there. HYPOCRITE !!!!!!
Wow, Obama has now reached straightjacket time.
What is Earth’s normal temperature?
This has nothing to do with the climate, and he is laughing at how stupid and gullible the masses are. I am hoping that those who are educated about the true facts concerning this will speak up and fight this as a group. There must be a massive effort to dispute this before too many more freedoms are lost...which is the ultimate leftist goal in all of this.
Think not art for thee art for thou. It could also be the opposite but his carbon footprint and those of the change of climate who preach are invisible, or at least totally worth it!
I am going wacky trying to imagine what he (and the AGW slyentist crowd) could possibly be thinking. I don’t think I could force my mind into that shape by effort of will. I’m sure the devil could do it but I ain’t going to ask for that. They have got the world with its tail on fire and for the sake of what? A speculation? Based on calculations that have way fewer equations than variables? By people who are challenged to tell you the weather next week?
Well said, totally agree.
There isn’t one, that’s the thing. It has swung widely, with ice covering the planet for more time than it has been like it is now. We are overdue for another ice age. If one wants to wory about climate change, worry about that. The Sun will cycle down again and earth will get very cold again. We could not produce enough CO2 to stop it. (CO2 has no bearing on temperature, anyway)
Spiritually we know what the devil is pushing... PSST! THERE AIN’T ANY GOD OR ELSE HE IS SUPER INCOMPETENT!
Mass hysteria.
He did promise with his election the seas would stop their rise.
Pity he didn’t realize or care that they weren’t.
Actually, historically, much warmer than now - 8-10 degrees warmer.
It was only after South America broke apart from Antarctica that a polar current could form that kept the cold air there from following sea currents north, so Antarctica shifted from Pacific Northwest weather to Alaska.
And at the same time, the Himalayas rose, pulling CO2 from the atmosphere from their weathering of rock at a much faster rate than the historical norm. Less CO2, lower greenhouse temps.
The end result is a much colder planet. After all, the Ice Ages only started 40 or so million years ago, though there may have been 100K warm/chill cycles before the 100K ice age cycles we see today.
And a lot of global warming alarmists forget we are in a WARM period between ice ages. And at 12K years into a warm period that lasts on average 10-20K years, we could easily slip back into a new ice age.
If you look at just the last 40 million years with ice age cycles, the average warm period is around now’s temperature, with highs and lows around that. But factor in the ice age periods, and we’re unusually warm. It has to be, when you had millennia of mile thick ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere.
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