Host you can also catch up with us on all of your favorite social media pages a very good sunday morning to you. Isrges Guns Everywhere law what we will be talking about in the first 45 minutes this morning. A few headlines in the past week from around the country in georgia, headline sweeping new gun law takes effect. ,rom Al Jazeera America georgia now has Guns Everywhere. One of the headlines from the Atlanta Journalconstitution, see if itke months to is a tempest in a teapot or an actual storm. For a breakdown of what the new law entails we turn to the Associated Press and their wrapup of the bill, noting that the georgia safe carry protection act criticized by one group as the Guns Everywhere bill expands where license carriers can take their weapons and affects the rules including bars, churches, schools, law that wes the will be talking about for the next 45 minutes or so. We are waiting for your phone calls and comments, but as we do we will give you an update on what is coming
Back into military action in the middle east. Russia has annexed part of ebola has rampaged across africa. President ow you obamas first appearance at the u. N. Summit. He spoke at the Climate Change summit. It is 15 minutes. [applause] mr. President , secretary , for allfellow leaders the media challenges we are gathered to address his week, terrorism, instability, there isdisease one issue that will define the contours of this it century more genetically than any other, that is the urgent and growing threat of changing climate. By years have passed since many of us met in copenhagen. Since then, our understanding of Climate Change has advanced to advanced. Both in the deepening science that says this once distance to threat has moved firmly into the present, and into the sting of more frequent extreme weather events that show us what these changes may mean for future generations. O nation is immune in america, the past decade has been the hottest on record. A longer eastern coast, th
We know what we have to do to avoid irreparable harm. We have to cut Carbon Pollution in our own country to prevent the worst effects of Climate Change. We have to adapt to the impacts that unfortunately we can no longer avoid. We have to Work Together as a Global Community to tackle this threat before it is too late. We cannot condemn our children and their children to a future that is beyond their capacity to repair. Not when we have the means, the technological innovation and scientific imagination to begin the work of repairing it right now. As one of americas governor said, we are the first generation to feel the impacts of Climate Change and the last generation that can do something about it. Today im here personally as leader of the Worlds Largest economy and its secondlargest emitter to say that we have begun to do something about it. The United States have made ambitious investments in clean energy, and reductions in our Carbon Emissions. We now harnessed three times as much f
Bring more and more people into, at least contact with some of these issues. That doesnt mean they will learn the right things but it opens doors. I think back all to what moved the needle. What changed the course of Human History here in our country and its always been popular movements. The civil rights movement, the womens movement, lgbt. Thats just national. Americans linked with people in west africa and even angola during the blood diamond years to help bring about change there. Popular movements are where things are rooted. I think thats where those folks that have a high profile that have sandwiched themselves in their artistic endevours. The light is coming at us and people like akon have taken the mirror and shifted it at this issue and listen to these people. I think thats what ive seen in most effective is when a celebrity goes into a country that offer very little. Lets let lets have this person tell the story from that country. Giving a platform to africans to tell their
Is that something that you want to speculate on . I think at already speculated. I will note that there is into the record and analysis. Looking at future power costs and actually anticipates their reaction. That is maybe for another hearing or another debate and discussion. Lets turn to our second panel if they could come forward. [inaudible conversations] welcome. It is great to have you all. Happy to introduce our second panel of witnesses. A Diverse Group including three individuals who will talk about how Climate Changes impacting their area of expertise and to minority witnesses who will present their perceptions on as Climate Change skeptics. I will go ahead and introduce everyone now. Then we will proceed with the testimony. Our first witnesses jamals which i am particularly delighted to have you here from oregon. Jim serves as the executive director of lake county resources initiative, an organization dedicated to improving Forest Management and National Forests expanding the