Barack Obama in Alaska: global fight against climate change starts here
by Dan Roberts in Washington from on (#K1Z1)
President says massive areas of ice disappearing every year are not some far-off problem but 'a leading indicator of what the entire planet faces'
Shrinking Alaskan glaciers served as a vivid backdrop for Barack Obama's latest push for action on climate change in Anchorage on Monday night as he warned that the equivalent of 75 blocks of ice the size of the national mall in Washington were melting from the state every year.
The president, who will visit the nearby Seward glacier on Tuesday to see its shrinkage for himself, urged international participants at the Glacier conference to act fast before it was too late to limit the impact not just on the region but the whole world.
