Barack Obama isn't pulling any punches in Alaska.
The U.S. president spoke powerfully about the potentially severe effects of climate change around the world on Monday during a trip to Alaska, a state that has already seen physical changes as a result of global warming. Its glaciers are receding, erosion is wearing away land from coastal villages, wildfires have burned millions of acres in this year alone.
Arctic temperatures are rising about twice as fast as the global average, Obama said during his speech at the GLACIER Conference in Anchorage. Last year was Alaska’s warmest year on record, just as it was for the rest of the world.
And that's not all he said.
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