Las Vegas and Ninth Ward

Ninth Ward: This week alone he invoked the perils of climate change during visits to the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas and New Orleans’ storm ravaged Lower Ninth Ward to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, according to MSNBC. No challenge poses a greater threat to our future than climate change, the president told a crowd in Las Vegas. The trip to the Alaskan Arctic — the first by a sitting president — is the culmination of an increasingly forceful climate change policy push over the past two years by the Obama administration. *Related: Obama announces new green energy initiatives in Las Vegas* The White House has honed in on climate change as a core policy priority with a domestic and international approach that has met with mixed response among both liberals and conservatives. With these trips, along with his trek to Alaska where he will speak at a State Department-sponsored conference on the Arctic, Obama is attempting to set the stage for a major international climate change agreement he hopes will come from a summit in Paris in December. The president has from the beginning recognized that climate change is an existential challenge to the country and the world. That agreement could help secure his legacy as the first sitting president to address global climate change in a substantive way, environmental policy experts said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.