Obama Talks Climate Change at Summit
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Obama: Climate change 'growing and urgent threat'
President Barack Obama told a United Nations meeting on Tuesday that pollution must be contained to address climate change.
Specifically, he called out China, saying that the most populous country on Earth, with the fastest increase in carbon pollution, must join the United States to lead the rest of the world in carbon reduction.
"We have a responsibility to lead," Obama said to applause. "That's what big nations have to do."
Obama was speaking at the U.N. Climate Summit, a one-day meeting hosted by U.N. Sec
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Fact Check: Obama Spins Statistics in U.N. Speech on Climate Change
President Barack Obama glossed over some inconvenient truths Tuesday in his climate-change speech to the United Nations. For one, as the U.S. cleans up emissions at home, it’s sending dirty fuel abroad to pollute the same sky.
As well, the U.S. is not cleaning up quite as aggressively as Obama implied in his remarks.
Obama was among scores of world leaders at the gathering, which followed by days a mass demonstration in New York City in support of action to combat global warming. Among those who marched: Al Gore, whose...
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Obama Presses Chinese on Global Warming 
President Obama, emboldened by his use of executive powers to fight climate change at home, challenged China on Tuesday to make the same effort to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions and join a worldwide campaign to curb global warming.
Declaring that the United States and China — the world’s two largest economies and largest polluters — bear a “special responsibility to lead,” Mr. Obama said, “That’s what big nations have to do.”
The president’s remarks at the United Nations Climate Summit, delivered in a packed chamber of the General Assembly, were...
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