Fossil Fuel Fest: Obama and Climate Change

Fossil Fuel Fest: Obama and Climate Change: "Fossil Fuel Fest: Obama and Climate Change
Friday, 28 January 2011 00:12 Sandy LeonVest
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Only days before President Obama delivered this year’s State of the Union speech, a startlingly grim little piece appeared in the Inter Press News Service (IPS). The article, which highlighted a newly released assessment of global climate change by the International Energy Agency (IEA), was as definitive as it was dramatic.

'The year 2010 was the hottest ever measured since the beginning of the recordings, 130 years ago,' Dr. Anders Levermann, professor of climate system dynamics at the Physics Institute of the Potsdam University told IPS. Yet, despite repeated warnings regarding the “perilous nature” of unmitigated fossil fuel consumption, the IEA’s latest science-based research found that, “unprecedented climate change has Earth hurtling down a path of catastrophic proportions.”

These findings, wrote IPS’ Julio Godoy, “have prompted leading environmental experts to warn that humankind is racing towards destruction … Disaster appears imminent.”"