Obama vows to take personal charge of climate change in second term
Source: The Guardian
Barack Obama claimed climate change as a personal mission of his second term on Wednesday, offering for the first time to take charge of the effort to find a bipartisan solution to the existential crisis.
Obama, speaking in the first White House press conference since his re-election, acknowledged his first term had made only limited progress on climate change. But he promised to remain personally engaged in getting Republicans and Democrats to agree on a course of action.
"So what I am going to be doing over the next several weeks, the next several months, is having a conversation – a wide-ranging conversation – with scientists, engineers and elected officials to find out what more we can do to make short term progress," he said. "You can expect that you will hear more from me in the coming months and years about how we can shape an agenda that garners bipartisan support and help moves this agenda forward."
The comments were Obama's most expansive in years on the dangers of climate change and his strategy for addressing the problem. It was also the first time Obama said he would take personal charge of climate change.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk//environment/2012/nov/14/obama-climate-change-second-term
Ho-hum, minimal reporting on this in US mainstream media.
This excellent Guardian article, however, is well worth reading in full.
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I totally missed it, must have been because of where they positioned it and its faint/italic format.
Interesting they chose to use it at all, though.
