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http://news.yahoo.com/obama-readies-climate-change-push-un-summit-223139159.html

Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama will seek to galvanize international support in the fight against climate change on Tuesday when he addresses the United Nations, with time running out on his hopes of leaving a lasting environmental legacy.

Obama has warned that failure to act on climate change would be a "betrayal" of future generations, but faced with a Congress reluctant to even limit greenhouse gas emissions -- let alone ratify an international agreement -- his options appear limited.

Tuesday's climate summit in New York kicks off a process that will culminate in Paris at the end of 2015, where the world's powers will hope to seal a new global climate change pact.

"Internationally, this is the opportunity for the president to leave his mark on the issue," said Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Washington-based think-tank.

Obama's last meeting with heads of state to try to strike a climate deal, in Copenhagen five years ago, ended in bitter disappointment.

"I think that people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen," Obama said at the time, lamenting the failure to agree a timetable to reduce emissions over the coming decades.

RFK Jr. looses his cool at global warmin rally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKWRRnS-BQ&feature=youtu.be

I didn't think that he had any to begin with.

Google recently announced they will fall in line with the loons:

Google is breaking ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a prominent network of conservative state legislators that, among other projects, works to roll back laws that promote solar and wind power, the company's chairman said Monday..

The decision marks a major victory for a campaign by environmentalists, union activists and other liberal groups that have pushed companies to drop support for ALEC. Microsoft ended its ties to the group a few weeks ago.

“The consensus within the company was that that was some sort of mistake,” Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said, referring to the initial decision to support ALEC.

“Everyone understands climate change is occurring, and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place," Schmidt said in an interview with National Public Radio’s Diane Rehm. "And so we should not be aligned with such people -- they're just, they're just literally lying.”

Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune welcomed Google's decision to end its ALEC membership. “We should not be electing climate deniers into office and we should not be supporting them in the marketplace,” he said. “I think maybe the left hand was not aware of what the right hand was doing.”

In a statement, Lisa Nelson, ALEC's chief executive, attributed Google’s move to “public pressure from left-leaning individuals and organizations who intentionally confuse free market policy perspectives for climate change denial.”

evan.halper@latimes.com