President Obama Would Like You To Know Climate Change Is Real

President Obama went to Las Vegas today. (How many people do you think have already made the joke ‘a little less conversation, a little more action please’?) While out there Obama managed to smooth over the recent rough relations with the city and held a town hall where he discussed, among other things, the recent extreme weather conditions across the country. No matter what some parts of the conservative party would have you believe, says Obama, climate change is real. His remarks and video below.

When the Conservatives have their conventions (ahem) and they yell at me and say how terrible I am, along with health care this is thing they usually point out. Which is, the president wants to create this cap and trade system, and it’s going to be a job killer, and it’s one more step in the government takeover of the American economy…first of all, we just got five feet of snow in Washington, so a lot of people who are the opponents of climate change they say ‘see, look at that, there’s all this snow on the ground, this doesn’t mean anything.’ I want to be just be clear that the science of climate change doesn’t mean that every place is getting warmer, it means the planet as a whole is getting warmer. But what it may mean is, for example, Vancouver, which is supposed to be getting snow during the Olympics, suddenly is at 55*, and Dallas is suddenly getting seven inches of snow.

The idea is that the planet as a whole gets warmer, you start seeing changing weather patterns and that creates more violent storm systems, more unpredictable weather, so any single place might end up being warmer, another place might end up being cooler, there might be more precipitation in the air, more monsoons, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more droughts in some places, floods in other places. So that’s aspect of the science I think everybody should understand.