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发帖数: 29846 | 1 President Barack Obama held his first postelection press conference today,
Nov. 14, 2012, in the East room at the White House. The president took eight
questions from the White House press corps; one of those questions was on
the subject of Global Climate Change, and the President’s plan to “tackle
the issue of climate change”.
Mark Landler, part of the White House press corps and a journalist for the
New York Times, asked the President the following question on Global Climate
Change.
“Mr. President. In his endorsement of you a few weeks ago, Mayor
Bloomberg said he was motivated by the belief that you would do more to
confront the threat of climate change than your opponent. Tomorrow you’re
going up to New York City, where you’re going to, I assume, see people who
are still suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy, which many people say is
further evidence of how a warming globe is changing our weather. What
specifically do you plan to do in a second term to tackle the issue of
climate change? And do you think the political will exists in Washington to
pass legislation that could include some kind of a tax on carbon?”
President Obama News Conference
Video: President Obama News Conference
The president did not shy away from the question, saying, “I am a firm
believer that climate change is real, that it is impacted by human behavior
and carbon emissions.”
“You know, as you know, Mark, we can’t attribute any particular
weather event to climate change. What we do know is the temperature around
the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago. We do
know that the Arctic ice cap is melting faster than was predicted even five
years ago. We do know that there have been extraordinarily — there have
been an extraordinarily large number of severe weather events here in North
America, but also around the globe.”
“And I am a firm believer that climate change is real, that it is
impacted by human behavior and carbon emissions. And as a consequence, I
think we’ve got an obligation to future generations to do something about
it.”
President Obama then talks about what was done in his first term to help
curb carbon emissions, such as the new CAFE standards on cars and trucks, as
well as clean energy productions.
“Now, in my first term, we doubled fuel efficiency standards on cars
and trucks. That will have an impact. That will a lot of carbon out of the
atmosphere. We doubled the production of clean energy, which promises to
reduce the utilization of fossil fuels for power generation. And we continue
to invest in potential breakthrough technologies that could further remove
carbon from our atmosphere.”
“But we haven’t done as much as we need to. So what I’m going to be
doing over the next several weeks, next several months, is having a
conversation, a wide-ranging conversation with scientists, engineers and
elected officials to find out what can — what more can we do to make short-
term progress in reducing carbons, and then working through an education
process that I think is necessary, a discussion, the conversation across the
country about, you know, what realistically can we do long term to make
sure that this is not something we’re passing on to future generations that
’s going to be very expensive and very painful to deal with.”
President Obama said he did not know “what either Democrats or Republicans
are prepared to do at this point because it is a “partisan” issue today,
unlike the past when there was “bipartisan support.”
“So you know, you can expect that you’ll hear more from me in the
coming months and years about how we can shape an agenda that garners
bipartisan support and helps move this — moves this agenda forward.”
The president would like to move forward on this issue, but the only way to
move forward is if the Democrats and Republicans in congress work together,
so, it may take awhile. | G***G
发帖数: 16778 | 2 I don't agree with him on this either.
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: President Barack Obama held his first postelection press conference today,
: Nov. 14, 2012, in the East room at the White House. The president took eight
: questions from the White House press corps; one of those questions was on
: the subject of Global Climate Change, and the President’s plan to “tackle
: the issue of climate change”.
: Mark Landler, part of the White House press corps and a journalist for the
: New York Times, asked the President the following question on Global Climate
: Change.
: “Mr. President. In his endorsement of you a few weeks ago, Mayor
: Bloomberg said he was motivated by the belief that you would do more to
| l******a
发帖数: 3803 | 3
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tackle
Climate
just let this imbecile run the country for 4 mor yirs,
becomes a ultimate laughing stock so to make every hood
voter happy.
【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: President Barack Obama held his first postelection press conference today,
: Nov. 14, 2012, in the East room at the White House. The president took eight
: questions from the White House press corps; one of those questions was on
: the subject of Global Climate Change, and the President’s plan to “tackle
: the issue of climate change”.
: Mark Landler, part of the White House press corps and a journalist for the
: New York Times, asked the President the following question on Global Climate
: Change.
: “Mr. President. In his endorsement of you a few weeks ago, Mayor
: Bloomberg said he was motivated by the belief that you would do more to
| k****g
发帖数: 1509 | 4 He is a shit.
eight
tackle
Climate
【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: President Barack Obama held his first postelection press conference today,
: Nov. 14, 2012, in the East room at the White House. The president took eight
: questions from the White House press corps; one of those questions was on
: the subject of Global Climate Change, and the President’s plan to “tackle
: the issue of climate change”.
: Mark Landler, part of the White House press corps and a journalist for the
: New York Times, asked the President the following question on Global Climate
: Change.
: “Mr. President. In his endorsement of you a few weeks ago, Mayor
: Bloomberg said he was motivated by the belief that you would do more to
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