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US President Barack Obama has toured Resurrection Bay in the US state of Alaska. Obama is counting on Alaska’s deteriorating landscape to elicit a
US President Barack Obama has toured Resurrection Bay in the US state of Alaska.
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Obama is counting on Alaska’s deteriorating landscape to elicit a sense of urgency for his call to action on climate change.
Earlier this week, he told a meeting for foreign ministers in Alaska that world leaders must agree to cut carbon emissions at a UN summit planned for December in Paris.
He said the Alaska had “some of the swiftest shoreline erosion rates in the world.”