Former President Barack Obama on Monday urged world leaders to ramp up efforts to combat climate change, lamenting what he referred to as “active hostility toward climate science” from Republicans and the Trump administration.
In his speech before the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Obama criticized former President Donald Trump and other Republicans for reversing policies implemented under the Obama administration and obstructing comprehensive action in Congress.
“When it comes to climate, time really is running out. We have not done nearly enough to address this crisis,” Obama said during the conference, with John Kerry, his former secretary of state and now President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, in the audience.
Obama said that “progress stalled” on climate change when his “successor decided to unilaterally pull out of the Paris Agreement in his first year in office,” referring to Trump. “I wasn’t real happy about that,” he added.
Despite “four years of active hostility toward climate science coming from the very top of our federal government,” Obama said, the U.S. wound up meeting its original commitment under the Paris Agreement.
Obama, however, emphasized that the U.S. and other countries must step up their response to the changing climate, cautioning, “It’s not just that we can’t afford to go backward — we can’t afford to stay where we are.”
Obama said that he would have done more to address the issue during his eight years in office if he had “a stable congressional majority that was willing and eager to take action.” He said that he didn’t have that majority for the bulk of his presidency.
“Gaining such majorities require an engaged citizenry willing to do what it takes to reward politicians who take this problem seriously and send out of office those who don’t,” said Obama, who said that Biden’s $1.75 trillion social safety net package, if passed, would be “historic and a huge plus for U.S. action on climate change.”
The legislation would allocate more than $550 billion to tackle the climate crisis by expanding clean energy tax credits and lowering carbon emissions, among other things.
Obama said that both he and Biden have been “constrained by the absence of a robust majority.” He added that they’ve been hamstrung “in large part by the fact that one of our two major parties has decided not only to sit on the sidelines, but express active hostility toward climate science and make climate change a partisan issue.”
The former president concluded his speech by encouraging people to pressure companies to “do the right thing” when it comes to climate change and to persuade people to change their minds on the issue. He said that people who are eligible to vote should “vote like your life depends on it, because it does.”
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Original Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/obama-denounces-trump-gop-active-hostility-toward-climate-science-cop26-n1283473
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Oh, go suck your own dick, you paedophile tranny!
Climate Change? Really Another bunch of Horse Crap to Drive the USA into Poverty! Go to realclimatescience.com
He has All the REAL Facts! Damn Government!
GREAT idea…I am so SICK and TIRED of this Freak……
Obama your a dick so screw yourself because nobody don’t want you no more and take you he man Mich with you.
Climate change has been going on since the being of time. China, India and few others have influenced their own counys, but Not enough to effect the Plant, so stop with this and investigate yourself find out the real truth.
If these people believed in God they would realize that they are neither more intelligent nor more powerful than The Almighty. They are more akin to Satan. They will not win this war between good and evil.
Maybe stay involved guarding their lives a little bit the climate will change God controls climate. We cannot change the climate. This is Obozos third term, Biden is senile and he’s doing exactly what BHO tells him to say and do. They are hell-bent on destroying this whole country.
If Trump would have still been in office , and if there is a way to combat climate change TRUMP would have taken care of that problem already instead of just talking chit and lying about everything like this present administration. TRUMP talks the talk and he walks the walk for America and its people . With Biden every thing he has done so far has HURT AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE. Our worst enemy has never hurt America so bad as BIDEN has. I just wonder WHY IS HE DOING THIS AND WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG FOR OUR GOVERNMENT TO PUT A STOP TO THIS CONSPIRACY AND START ARRESTING THESE TRAITORS BEFORE ITS TO LATE.
If Obama was so concerned about climate change an hurricanes an all that goes with it. Why did he buy property on sn island?
It’s a shame the criminal democrats have been trying to take over God’s place. These stupids think they are smarter than God. It is another gimmick to throw away tax payer money and they are getting away with it. Practically everything these criminals have done in the last few years has been unlawful. They continue to get away with these unlawful acts and the confiscatory tax payer cash. Now wouldn’t you think that there would be a qualified law person or judge that could and would put a stop to these unlawful acts, but it seems we poor folks are going to have to suffer these criminals without them even being questioned about their criminality.
It’s a shame the criminal democrats have been trying to take over God’s place. These stupids think they are smarter than God. It is another gimmick to throw away tax payer money and they are getting away with it. Practically everything these criminals have done in the last few years has been unlawful. They continue to get away with these unlawful acts and the confiscatory tax payer cash. Now wouldn’t you think that there would be a qualified law person or judge that could and would put a stop to these unlawful acts, but it seems we poor folks are going to have to suffer these criminals without them even being questioned about their criminality.
It’s a shame the criminal democrats have been trying to take over God’s place. These stupids think they are smarter than God. It is another gimmick to throw away tax payer money and they are getting away with it. Practically everything these criminals have done in the last few years has been unlawful. They continue to get away with these unlawful acts and the confiscatory tax payer cash. Now wouldn’t you think that there would be a qualified law person or judge that could and would put a stop to these unlawful acts, but it seems we poor folks are going to have to suffer these criminals without them even being questioned about their criminality.
Obama and that giant man he’s married to are a huge embarrassment, they both need to shut up and go away.
Our commies, racists, Marxists, and other components of the Democrat Party now in power never tire of blowing the trumpet of New Ice Age (in the 1970’s), Global Warming (in the 1990’s), and now Climate Change caused by the criminal Republicans and capitalists. Their remedy however stays the same – nationalize everything with them in total charge!
The continuing attacks on our republic by the communists, socialists, Democrats and other such low-lives ever since the 1970’s are being revived under the “leadership” of our present racist-Marxist president. First it was “The new ice age” in the 1970’s; the in the 1980’s we got hit with “The Global Warming” scam in the 1990’s; and now after zero climate change we are faced with – what do they call it now?
-Trump lives in Obama’s mind 24/7.
-Does Obama know that Trump is no longer in the White House, so how could Trump be “actively hostile” against anything?
-Is Obama using “Trump” as a strawman to blame, when it is actually “moderate democrats” and “republicans” that Obama Hates?
-As Trump said, “They are after you. I’m just in the way.”
-If Obama is so “concerned” about “climate change”, then why did he buy a beachfront home on Martha’s Vineyard island in Massachusetts in 2019?
-If, according to all the climate change fearmongers, it would be underwater in 12 years?
-If all the attendees of the climate summit were REALLY concerned about “climate change”, then why did so many of them take private jets to the summit?
-And how is an additional “tax” to the U.S., who is among the countries actively pursuing climate change, going to stop climate change?
-The largest polluters, China and India, do not plan to make any changes, in fact are ramping up using coal.
-Obama needs to bully them, instead of the U.S.
-But we all know it is not about the “pollution”, it is about shaving money off the taxes and putting it into their own pockets.
And to think if it wasn’t for guilt ridden WHITE people, especially white women, Obama would not have been able to wreak havoc on this country for 8 years as President and daily since then.
Hey Obutthead, you aren’trelevant anymore. Why don’t youand Rahm go to one of the gay bathhouses in Chicago so you can F each other. You both liked screwing the sate and country so you ladies should feel right at home screwing each other. Take Pervy Biden with you and you can make it a threesome!
There is no climate change attributed to humans .
They claim “their” science is true while everybody else’s science is false… Kinda like religion.
The do nothing scumbag president elected only because of his skin color by the scoialist leftist creeping crud in our country is pissed at Trump and his America loving voters because if he doesn’t fund his fake BS greeplan it will hurt their agenda to rush in their socialist polices on America, and slow down the free money give away to illegal creeping crud and future demorat communist voters, & also will slow the free money program to lazy minorities living off of the other cultures hard working tax dollars, screw Obongo.