US President Barack Obama will trek through the wilderness in Alaska this week with British TV adventurer Bear Grylls, the NBC channel has announced. He is due to tape an episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls to observe the effects of climate change on the area, it said. He is the first president to appear on the show, to be aired later this year.
President Obama is on a three-day tour of Alaska aimed at highlighting the pace of climate change. It is part of his administration's efforts to build support for new legislation significantly capping carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the US, as well as raise attention to the ways climate change has damaged Alaska's natural landscape.
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Wednesday September 02 2015, @05:41PM
If you specifically go back to 1850 or so, a large part of the difference is due to the ending of the "Little Ice Age". In some winters towards the end of the 18th century, New York harbor froze solid. The Little Ice Age officially ended around 1850. Sure, people have an influence on the climate, but it is easy to forget that nature plays a huge role as well.
In any case, this is the next "stupid political trick". Whenever a politician does something like this, you have to ask: what is he really after? Watch the money - someone, or some company, or some organization is intended to benefit from this. Professional politicians don't do anything "for a good cause".
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.