Protecting the environment, he said, won’t happen “if we pretend a snowball in winter means nothing’s wrong.if we boast about how we’re going to scrap global treaties”.
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Mr. Trump has referred to climate change as a “hoax”.
So far, the USA has spent $635 million, California $759 million, Nevada $124 million, local governments $99 million, and private groups $339 million.
Congress approved a measure in 2003 allowing the sale of federal lands in Nevada to finance an initial $300 million investment at the lake over 10 years to be matched by private entities and state and local governments.
Before returning to Washington, Obama also was to become the first sitting president to visit Laos, where he’ll meet with the country’s leaders and attend a pair of regional summits.
Obama stressed the importance of conserving the environment.
He says he’ll have to drive instead of ride in Marine One.
Democratic Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada launched the gathering 20 years ago to draw attention to reductions in the alpine lake’s famed clarity.
Against the backdrop of the picturesque Lake Tahoe, President Barack Obama said environmental conservation is a key part of fighting the impact of global warming.
The water isn’t mixing as deeply and it lost nearly five feet of clarity this year.
“This is the best opportunity we have had in years to make a real difference for the more than 650,000 people who live around the Salton Sea, as well as the millions of birds and other wildlife that depend on the sea for their survival”, said Audubon president and chief executive David Yarnold.
Thousands of people are crowding into an outdoor arena in a casino parking lot at Lake Tahoe where President Obama is to give the keynote address at the 20th annual environmental summit addressing the lake’s ecological challenges. Boxer also is retiring after serving for more than two decades in the Senate.
Obama was speaking at the Lake Tahoe National Park a week after celebrating the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service by expanding the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument off of the coast of Hawaii to create the largest marine protected area in the world.
Reid and Feinstein praised the unprecedented, bipartisan work that has been done to protect Lake Tahoe over the past two decades. Ronald Reagan and Paul Laxalt. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said in a tweet he believes “global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make USA manufacturing non-competitive”.
Rep. Tom McClintock, a Republican from Elk Grove whose district includes the California side of the lake and who has called for less-expansive Tahoe funding, and is focused primarily on fire prevention, said he was not invited. “And the human imagination is so encouraged and nourished by it that Republicans and Democrats actually worked together to do good for Tahoe”.
Obama’s emphasis on dealing with climate change comes at a time when more Americans agree that something should be done.
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“This is still a pristine wonder”, Brown said. The lake’s temperature has risen faster over the past four years than any time on record.
