President Obama: Climate change plan is balanced and achievable
The cost of inaction is too high.   By BARACK OBAMA / For the
Register  President Obama: Climate change plan is balanced and
achievable  President Barack Obama gestures during a speech on
climate change, at Georgetown University, Tuesday, June 25, in
Washington, D.C.  On Tuesday, I unveiled a new national plan to
confront climate change. It's a plan that will reduce carbon
pollution to prevent the worst effects of climate change,
prepare our country for the effects we can't stop, and lead the
world in combating the growing threat of a changing climate.
Many Americans who already feel the effects of climate change
don't have time to deny it – they're busy dealing with it.
Firefighters are braving longer wildfire seasons. Farmers are
seeing crops wilt one year, and wash away the next. Western
families are worried about water that's drying up. And while we
know no single weather event is caused solely by climate change,
we also know that in an inc