article_snippet.sent: The White House doubled down today on President Barack Obama's Earth Day message that climate change is 'a problem now' and knocked political figures who disagree with President Barack Obama as climate deniers and opportunists. '
article_snippet.sent: The preponderance of scientific evidence is on the side of President ' in making this argument.
article_snippet.sent: And President ' believes that to deny the existence of climate change is to deny an observable fact that is substantiated by science,' press secretary Josh Earnest said today after ' press secretary Josh Earnest was asked about a Duke study that claimed the earth isn't heating up as quickly as expected.
article_snippet.sent: The White House doubled down today on President Barack Obama's Earth Day message that climate change is 'a problem now' and knocked political figures who disagree with President Barack Obama as climate deniers and opportunists.
article_snippet.sent: There  President Barack Obama mocked opponents of climate change and said global warming is a 'problem now' There President Barack Obama preached about the harmful effects of global warming on the environment and the economy and mocked skeptics of man-made climate change. '
article_snippet.sent: Climate change can no longer be denied,' President Barack Obama said. '
article_snippet.sent: President Barack Obama's spokesman did not name-check opponents of Obama's argument on climate change today
article_snippet.sent: but it was evident that President Barack Obama was referring to conservatives such as Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe.
article_snippet.sent: The author of the anti-global warming book, The Greatest Hoax, Inhofe, has been a vocal critic of the administration's environmental policies.
article_snippet.sent: Taking a shot at Florida Governor Rick Scott, who allegedly banned the phrase climate change from the Republican lawmaker employees' vernacular, Obama said that 'simply refusing to say the words "climate changed" doesn’t mean that climate change isn’t happening.'
article_snippet.sent: the Republican lawmaker said at another point in the Republican lawmaker remarks that climate change cannot be 'edited out' or 'omitted from the conversation.' '
article_snippet.sent: There are some who are involved in politics that choose to deny' that global warming is happening 'because it's inconvenient to their case and it might be inconvenient to some of their strongest political supporters,' Obama's spokesman, Josh Earnest, said today .
article_snippet.sent: Responding to the question today about the Duke study, Earnest said  'the president is demonstrating genuine leadership by challenging the country and the world to confront [global warming].'
highlights_snippet.sent: President 'believes that to deny the existence of climate change is to deny an observable fact that is substantiated by science,' press secretary said .
  