Obama to Congress: Act on Climate Change, or I Will Salvatore Cardoni - TakePart
go to original February 13, 2013

President Obama urges Congress to do more to combat climate change in his 2013 State of the Union address. (Show Me)

For the second time in three weeks, President Obama laid down the gauntlet on global warming, telling the nation in his State of the Union address that if Congress fails to pass “bi-partisan, market-based” climate change legislation to “protect future generations, I will.”

"This much is clear about President Obama and climate change - he’s now willing to say all the right things. What remains to be seen, however, is if he will actually do any of them."

“We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science - and act before it’s too late,” he said.

While the President didn’t explicitly say what steps he would take to circumnavigate the current Congress, which has precisely zero appetite for passing any climate change legislation, let alone the kind that will make a meaningful dent in the greenhouse gases we emit into our atmosphere, green bloggers and environmental activists were by and large pleased about the demonstrativeness of Obama's call to action.

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