Earth Equity News

Obama Makes Urgent Appeal for Climate Action at Alaska Conference. By Julie Hirshfield Davis and Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 8/31/2015. "In remarks that bordered on the apocalyptic, Mr. Obama warned that the effects of global warming that have hit the Arctic the hardest would soon engulf the world — submerging entire countries, annihilating cities and leaving fields barren — unless more was done to reduce emissions. Four times in a 24-minute speech, he repeated his assertion that “we’re not acting fast enough.”