1.0Climate Change Dispatchhttps://climatechangedispatch.comThomas Richardhttps://climatechangedispatch.com/author/ccdeditor/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="liKUObvaw4"><a href="https://climatechangedispatch.com/president-obama-not-green-enough-for-the-hardcore-greens/">President Obama, Not Green Enough for the Hardcore Greens</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://climatechangedispatch.com/president-obama-not-green-enough-for-the-hardcore-greens/embed/#?secret=liKUObvaw4" width="600" height="338" title="“President Obama, Not Green Enough for the Hardcore Greens” — Climate Change Dispatch" data-secret="liKUObvaw4" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> Once, "climate-change denier" referred to people who say that climate change isn't happening, isn't dangerous, or, if it is happening, not caused by human activity. But no more. Environmentalists are purging their own ranks to get rid of temporizers. The epithet "climate denier" now gets affixed to insufficiently radical climate affirmers. In a New York Times opinion page last week, nationally renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben accused President Obama of "catastrophic climate-change denial." This, for a president who has declared there is "no greater threat" than climate change, who has set about harnessing coal plants with punishing regulations, and who has signaled his intention to pledge at the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris to reduce  greenhouse-gas emissions a whopping 28 percent by 2025. The president has himself had some choice words for "deniers" in the past; during his commencement address at the University of California, Irvine, last year, he compared skeptics of anthropogenic global warming to those who believed the moon was "made of cheese."https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_obama.jpg