President Obama this morning issued an appeal to world leaders to help avert "an irreversible catastrophe" in the Earth's climate, accepting a portion of blame for global warming on behalf of the United States but also urging the world's biggest polluters to change their ways. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Basically a dry recitation of the major points in Obama’s global warming speech to the UN. Given the dire consequences in the face of inaction he described, the speech must have seemed quite sardonic to other countries after listening to eight years of Bush administration’s indifference, foot-dragging—even denial that global warming even existed.
I feel that this is decent journalism I t does a good job of summarizing the events that took place here so the reader in general should feel well informed.
Interesting article I think environmental issues do have a distinct amount of importance but I personally feel it is blown well out of proportion. There are other issues that need to be focused on more than just environmental ones. There is so much conflict among nations I would rather have attention focused there let car companies build their "green" cars but for now environment to me is not very important.
Notably, he did not call for the Senate to pass a bill before the Copenhagen meeting in December, or even to get one out of committee by then. More »
This is quality journalism in the sense that it states what President Obama said in the address. However it is very unclear where President Obama's sources were coming from. There were also very few examples given to what global warming has done, but that isn't the journalists fault.
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