Name: President Obama Speaks on Climate Change
Uploaded: 2019-06-10T10:14:49.000Z
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And my first announcement today is that you should all take off

and it is a great privilege to speak from the steps of this

historic hall that welcomed Presidents going back

I want to thank your President, President DeGioia,

I want to thank the many members of my Cabinet

I want to thank Leader Pelosi and the members of Congress

And I want to say thank you to the Hoyas in the house for

It was important for me to speak directly to your

generation, because the decisions that we make now and

in the years ahead will have a profound impact on the world

On Christmas Eve, 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8 did a

So Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders -- the first

humans to orbit the moon -- described what they saw,

and they read Scripture from the Book of Genesis to the rest

And later that night, they took a photo that would change

the way we see and think about our world.

It was an image of Earth -- beautiful; breathtaking;

a glowing marble of blue oceans, and green forests,

and brown mountains brushed with white clouds,

And while the sight of our planet from space might seem

routine today, imagine what it looked like to those of us

seeing our home, our planet, for the first time.

Imagine what it looked like to children like me.

"It makes you realize," Lovell would say,

"just what you have back there on Earth."

And around the same time we began exploring space,

scientists were studying changes taking place

Now, scientists had known since the 1800s that greenhouse gases

like carbon dioxide trap heat, and that burning fossil fuels

But in the late 1950s, the National Weather Service began

measuring the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere,

with the worry that rising levels might someday disrupt the

fragile balance that makes our planet so hospitable.

is that the levels of carbon pollution in our atmosphere have

That science, accumulated and reviewed over decades,

tells us that our planet is changing in ways that will have

The 12 warmest years in recorded history have all come

Last year, temperatures in some areas of the ocean reached

record highs, and ice in the Arctic shrank to its smallest

size on record -- faster than most models had

Now, we know that no single weather event is caused solely

Droughts and fires and floods, they go back to ancient times.

But we also know that in a world that's warmer than it used to

be, all weather events are affected by a warming planet.

The fact that sea level in New York, in New York Harbor,

are now a foot higher than a century ago -- that didn't cause

Hurricane Sandy, but it certainly contributed to the

destruction that left large parts of our mightiest city

The potential impacts go beyond rising sea levels.

Here at home, 2012 was the warmest year in our history.

Midwest farms were parched by the worst drought since the Dust

Bowl, and then drenched by the wettest spring on record.

Western wildfires scorched an area larger than

Just last week, a heat wave in Alaska shot temperatures

And we know that the costs of these events can be measured in

lost lives and lost livelihoods, lost homes, lost businesses,

hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency services

In fact, those who are already feeling the effects of climate

change don't have time to deny it -- they're busy

Firefighters are braving longer wildfire seasons,

and states and federal governments have to figure out

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