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At dinner tables, restless Obama finds intellectual escape
2014-07-15 04:23:35| Automakers - Topix.net
President Obama had just disembarked from Air Force One and was still on the tarmac in Rome when he turned to his host, John R. Phillips, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, with an unexpected request: How about a dinner party tomorrow night? Over the next 24 hours, the startled Phillips and his wife, the former Obama aide Linda Douglass, scrambled to ... (more)
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Obama takes on Big Oil: Will presidents final, radical climate push be enough?
2014-07-13 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Standing before University of California at Irvine`s graduating class this June, Barack Obama did something no U.S. president has done before: He stood up for climate science. Not only did the president make a strong case for taking immediate action to mitigate global warming, he delivered a withering critique of climate deniers, whom he likened to those who would suggest the moon was "made of cheese. Even more outrageous, writes journalist Mark Hertsgaard, is a comment Obama made on Showtime`s...
Obama adviser on front lines of climate fight
2014-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Speaking to a friendly audience of environmental advocates last week, President Obama mocked members of Congress who duck the question, as he put it, of whether climate change is real by saying that they are not scientists. I mean, Im not a scientist either, the president told the League of Conservation Voters in Washington. But Ive got this guy, John Holdren. Hes a scientist. The line got a laugh, in part because Mr. Holdren, a physicist and the White House science adviser since the...
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Obama Admin Announces Massive Climate Change Funding
2014-07-03 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: President Obama's new climate change push was reaffirmed on Thursday when the Department of Energy announced that it will make $4 billion in loans available to clean energy projects. In a statement, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said: As the President emphasized in his Climate Action Plan, it is critical that we take an all-of-the above approach to energy in order to cut carbon pollution, help address the effects of climate change and protect our childrens future. Investments in clean, low-carbon...
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"China Flexes Muscle, Obama Frets Over Its Weakness"
2014-07-01 03:51:31| Footwear - Topix.net
While China often voices suspicion that the U.S. is trying to undermine it , president Barack Obama told NPR in May that "we do not have an interest in stopping China from becoming successful.
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