Barack Obama inconvenienced hundreds of vacationers and tourists on Saturday in yet another hypocrisy-laden publicity stunt.
“Obama’s visit to Yosemite via helicopter caused major congestion in a park already heaving with summer visitors,” writes Oliver Milman in The Guardian. “Yosemite advised people to enter the park either before 8am or after 6pm to avoid the worst of the disruption. All parking, trails and climbing routes in the Lower Yosemite Falls area were shut down to allow Obama, wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia to do some hiking.”
Obama warned that climate change could ravage many of America’s national parks, and criticized political opponents who “pay lip service” to areas of natural beauty while opposing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
I loved Eric Worrall’s reaction to this.
“I will start believing President Obama thinks climate is a serious issue, when he finds a way to burn less than a month of my fossil fuel budget on a single helicopter trip to give a climate speech which demands an end to “lip service”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/18/yosemite-obama-national-parks-climate-change
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/19/obama-helicopters-into-yosemite-to-demand-an-end-to-climate-lip-service/
Thanks to Andrew Stranglen for these links
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