Obama will visit the Florida Everglades on Earth Day — to talk about climate change

Saturday morning, President Obama gave a speech on climate change — to preview a bigger speech on climate change. In the President’s weekly Saturday morning address, he declared that he’s headed to the Florida Everglades Wednesday — Earth Day — to “talk about the way that climate change threatens our economy.” “The Everglades is one of the most special places in our country,” the president said. “But it’s also one of the most fragile.  Rising sea levels are putting a national treasure — and an economic engine for the South Florida tourism industry — at risk.” “Climate change can no longer be denied — or ignored,” said Obama. By going to Florida to address climate change, then, President Obama could force more of a focus on the state’s unique vulnerability — where flooding and spoiling of water supplies by saltwater are already recurrent problems — and where its politicians stand on that...more