Obama’s talking climate change, but is anyone listening?

[LuckyTheDog]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will seek to make the case Friday for the urgency of fighting climate change with a speech at a California Wal-Mart, but he's faced with apathy among the public and hostility from congressional Republicans.

Obama has launched a public relations campaign in the wake of Tuesday's release of the National Climate Assessment, in which federal scientists focused on individual regions of the country as they warned of rising sea levels, extreme storms, heat waves, droughts and other impacts of a warming planet.

The White House expended considerable effort on the subject this week: Obama conducted interviews with local and national TV meteorologists from the White House Rose Garden to promote the report, and he'll highlight the issue in the Friday speech in California about making buildings more energy-efficient.

But the president's efforts are landing with a thud in a Congress that has little interest in climate change legislation. The House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans, at least some of whom question the scientific consensus that human activities are primarily responsible for the warming of the planet.

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[cilla4progress]

1. No - we are seeing a return of an ugly thread in human behavior

with Cruz, the Kochs, and the 'baggers. They are monopolizing the airwaves with their hate-filled rhetoric. They are the descendants of Joe McCarthy at least, and far worse.

I wonder if they will succeed in brainwashing America.