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Climate-denying politicians ‘not fit to lead’ – President Obama

President Barack Obama attacks climate change denying politicians as not being fit to lead, ABC Radio Will Ockenden reported this story on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 ELEANOR HALL: The president of the United States has issued a warning to other world leaders about the need to act urgently to reduce carbon emissions.

Barack Obama says climate change is happening faster than efforts to fix it and that any world leader unwilling to take the problem seriously is “not fit to lead”. The US president says, while there should be debate on the best way to address climate change, the science on global warming is settled and the time to act is now.

Will Ockenden reports.

WILL OCKENDEN: President Barack Obama says the world has reached a fork in the road on climate change.

One route is to continue on, without doing anything.

BARACK OBAMA: There’s not going to be a nation on this Earth that’s not impacted negatively. People will suffer. Economies will suffer. Entire nations will find themselves under severe, severe problems; more drought, more floods, rising sea levels, greater migration, more refugees, more scarcity, more conflict.

WILL OCKENDEN: The other, a global agreement to cut emissions.

BARACK OBAMA: The other path is to embrace the human ingenuity that can do something about it. The time to heed the critics and the cynics and the deniers is past. The time to plead ignorance is surely past.

Those who want to ignore the science, they are increasingly alone; they’re on their own shrinking island.

WILL OCKENDEN: President Obama’s comments were addressed at the opening of the GLACIER conference in Anchorage, Alaska.

GLACIER stands for Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience.

The comments come ahead of a key meeting, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is scheduled to be held in Paris in December…..http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2015/s4303846.htm

September 3, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general