Obama tells young reporters: Climate change a top challenge for young people

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Obama tells young reporters: Climate change a top challenge for young people By Andrew Restuccia - 08/30/11 01:21 PM ET

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing young people, President Obama said in a recent interview with young reporters from Scholastic News.

“Another big challenge that your generation is going to face is the environmental challenge,” Obama said in an interview with Scholastic News Press Corp. that was conducted in July but posted online this month.

“Although we’ve made big improvements over the last 20 or 30 years in making our air clean and our water clean, there are some big challenges around climate change.”

Obama said climate change is caused by “pollution that we’re sending up into the air, the carbon that we’re releasing."

The president's comments come as Republican presidential candidates, including Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), are questioning climate science on the campaign trail.

The vast majority of the world's scientists say climate change is occurring and is caused in large part by human activity.

Climate change could result in more hurricanes in Florida or drought in other areas of the country, Obama said.

“So we’ve got to get started trying to deal with this issue and we’ve got to make sure that your generation finds better ways to use energy more efficiently so we’re not sending out as much pollution into the air,” Obama said. “So that’s going to be something that we’re really going to have to focus on.”

The Obama administration has made energy and environmental policy a major focus of his agenda in recent months. The Environmental Protection Agency, for example, is moving forward with a series of regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change.

Republicans and some centrist Democrats oppose the administration’s efforts, pushing legislation to limit or outright block major EPA air regulations.

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“Climate change a top challenge for young people...”

The biggest for these children will be the effects of obesity and the healthcare they WON"T be getting due to Obamacare.

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Over the next few years ‘reporters’ are going to have to work EXTRA hard if they want to keep up the charade.

Yes it will be very hard as Obama has a (bad) record to run on and blaming Bush will not satisfy the "swing voters' this time.

It will be intering to see if these ‘reporters’ value their reputations as journalist(cough, cough) and save their jobs or continue as shills for the Democrats and save Obama's job

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He should admit that envirowackos fu**ed up. Instead of heading into a new ice age we are now turning the Earth into a fireball.