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Page 4A NATION East Oregonian Tuesday, September 1, 2015 Obama depicts stark future without climate action By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alas- ka — Submerged countries, DEDQGRQHG FLWLHV DQG ÀRRGV of refugees await the world barring urgent action on climate change, President Barack Obama warned Mon- day, painting a doomsday scenario as he opened a his- toric visit to Alaska. In a bid to further his en- vironmental legacy, Obama brought the power of the presidential pulpit to An- chorage and called on other nations to take swift action as negotiations for a global cli- mate treaty near a close. His speech to an Arctic climate summit set the tone for a three-day tour of Alaska that will put the state’s liquefying glaciers and sinking villages on graphic display. “On this issue — of all is- sues —there is such a thing as being too late,” Obama said. “And that moment is almost upon us.” During his tour of Alas- ka, Obama planned to hike DJODFLHUFRQYHUVHZLWK¿VK- ermen and tape a reality TV show with survivalist Bear Grylls — all part of a high- ly orchestrated White House campaign to illustrate how climate change has damaged Alaska’s stunning landscape. The goal at each stop is to create powerful visuals that show real-world effects of climate change and drive home Obama’s message that the crisis is already occur- ring. Obama has two audienc- es in mind as he traverses Alaska this week: Alaskans, who are hungry for more en- 1980 Andy Newman/Holland America Line via AP Mount McKinley pierces through the clouds above De- nali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Obama renames America’s tallest peak WASHINGTON (AP) — Ahead of a historic trip to the Arctic, President Barack Obama erased a former Republican President Barack Obama, right, accompanied by Secretary of State John Kerry, left, president’s name from North America’s tallest peak in a move speaks at the Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engage- applauded in Alaska and derided more than 3,000 miles away ment and Resilience (GLACIER) Conference at Dena’ina Civic and Convention Cen- in Ohio. More contentious matters concerning climate change ter in Anchorage, Alaska, Monday. Obama opened a three-day trip to Alaska aimed and Arctic drilling awaited. at showing solidarity with a state often overlooked by Washington, while using its Obama departed Monday morning to Anchorage for the changing landscape as an urgent call to action on climate change. start of a three-day visit, bringing the American leader up ergy development to boost production, including oil and development which is the close to shrinking glaciers, Arctic temperatures and a mix of the state’s sagging oil reve- gas. Environmental groups lifeblood of our economy messy energy politics. His tour of the nation’s largest state is nues, and the broader public, took particular offense at can exist in tandem with, closely choreographed to call attention to the ways Obama whose focus Obama hopes the administration’s move DQG VLJQL¿FDQWO\ HQKDQFH says climate change is already damaging Alaska’s stunning to concentrate on the need to allow expanded drilling our traditional way of life,” scenery. Showing solidarity with Alaska Natives, Obama an- for drastic action to combat off Alaska’s northwest coast leaders of the Arctic Slope nounced Sunday that his administration would rename Mount global warming, including a — just a few weeks before Regional Corporation, which climate treaty that he hopes Obama arrived in Alaska to represents Inupiat Eskimo McKinley as Denali, its traditional Athabascan name. Alas- will help solidify his environ- preach on climate change. shareholders, wrote Monday ka’s governor and congressional delegation praised the long- sought change. But stripping the mountain of its name honor- mental legacy. Even Alaska Natives, who in a letter to Obama. Whether Obama can have echoed Obama’s warn- :DONLQJ D ¿QH OLQH ing former President William McKinley, a son of Ohio, drew successfully navigate those ings, have urged him to allow Obama sought to portray the loud condemnations from Ohio lawmakers. competing interests — en- more oil and gas to be sucked U.S. as doing its part even as ergy and the environment out of Alaska’s soil and wa- it develops energy resources GRHVQ¶WKDYHWREHDFRQÀLFW children to a planet beyond — remained the prevailing ters. Alaska faces a roughly it will need during the lon- between a sound environ- their capacity to repair.” In question of his trip. ELOOLRQ GH¿FLW WKLV \HDU ger-term transition to cleaner, ment and strong economic the Arctic, which is warm- ing faster than any other The president has strug- as a result of falling oil pric- renewable fuels. He ticked goals,” he said. Evoking ominous conse- corner of the globe, Obama gled to explain how his dire es, forcing state budget cuts through a list of steps he’s warnings and call to action to that have wreaked havoc on taken to cut greenhouse gas quences, Obama said that cli- said melting permafrost and cut greenhouse gases square rural services. emissions and said America mate change left unchecked disintegrating sea ice risk would soon trigger global ÀRRGV ¿UHV DQG XQLPDJ- with other steps he’s taken “History has shown us is doing its part. or allowed to expand energy that the responsible energy “We’re proving that there FRQÀLFW DQG ³FRQGHPQ RXU inable economic damage. 35 AP Photo/Andrew Harnik years 2015 Cari Broker www.deansathletic.com C HAMBER N EWS & E VENTS Trustime Retirement Plan Specialists, Inc. 75 SE Byers • PO Box 250 Pendleton, OR 97801 (541) 276-0121 Toll Free 866-355-8150 fax (541) 276-4216 pduso@trustime.com Safeco Insurance • Allstate Mutual of Enumclaw • Chubb • Travelers 121 S. 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After two days on the ground, she decided to crawl 150 yards down a rocky, shrub-covered ravine to a spot where she heard running water, Fresno County sheriff’s Deputy Jason Vinogradoff said. “‘I can die here, or I can at least get to the water and sur- vive,”’ she told Vinogradoff, who talked with her Saturday, just moments after she sounded her whistle to alert rescuers. She was shivering, pale and crying tears of joy when search- ers found her, Vinogradoff said, adding that she asked about her family. Vinogradoff described Har- wood’s survival as a miracle and said the avid hiker is a strong- willed person who did not com- plain of extreme pain. He be- lieves the whistle saved her life. Once she was secured in the helicopter, the group of 15 res- cuers erupted in applause. “Everybody was pretty hap- py that she got the outcome that she did,” California Highway 3DWURO KHOLFRSWHU SLORW 2I¿FHU Riley Dixon said. Harwood, a resident of Fol- Fresno County Sheriff’s Office via AP This Aug. 26 photo shows Fresno County Sheriff’s search and rescue team being airlifted to the remote area of the Sierra National Forest, Calif. to search for missing hiker Mi- yuki Harwood. VRPZDVÀRZQWRDKRVSLWDOLQ Fresno about 100 miles away and underwent surgery to set broken bones. She has declined requests for interviews. Harwood had been on an extended hiking trip organized by the Sierra Club. The group searched for her after she disap- peared and reported her missing, prompting the search led by the )UHVQR&RXQW\6KHULII¶V2I¿FH The effort was joined by more than 50 people on foot, horseback and helicopter. 6PRNHIURPDPDVVLYHZLOG¿UH several miles away hampered searchers in aircraft. Harwood ate nothing during the nine days she was missing, EXWVKHKDGDZDWHU¿OWHU9LQR- gradoff said she was wearing hiking pants, a long-sleeved shirt and a down jacket. She sought shelter under a tree. With each passing day, fears grew among rescuers. After be- LQJQRWL¿HGWKDWVKHZDVDOLYH Dixon set out from Fresno in his helicopter. :LOG¿UH VPRNH IRUFHG KLP to take a longer route. He land- ed on a granite slab at an eleva- tion of 9,200 feet and watched rescuers carry Harwood on a stretcher toward him. Survival instructor Cliff Hodges, founder of Adventure Out LLC, said that without the water from the stream, Har- wood would not have survived for nine days. He said the whis- tle was also a lifesaver, and she was fortunate to be lost in the summer. She could not have endured frigid winter temperatures with- out shelter, he said, adding that her will to survive undoubtedly played a role. East Oregonian • Health • Crop www.bisnett.com Office locations: Pendleton • Baker City • Milton-Freewater • Medford • John Day • Hood River • Lake Oswego • Ketchum, ID • Scottsdale, AZ 45926DS Imagine Better Health... New Member Welcome Brian von Eggers 203 NW 5th St, Pendleton (541) 310-9338 State Dept. releases 7,000 pages of Clinton emails WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department released roughly 7,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails Monday, including about 150 emails that have been censored because they contain information that is now GHHPHGFODVVL¿HG 'HSDUWPHQWRI¿FLDOVVDLGWKHUHGDFWHG LQIRUPDWLRQZDVFODVVL¿HGLQSUHSDUDWLRQ for the public release of the emails and QRWLGHQWL¿HGDVFODVVL¿HGDWWKHWLPH Clinton sent or received the messages. All the censored material in the latest group RIHPDLOVLVFODVVL¿HGDWWKH³FRQ¿GHQWLDO´ level, not at higher “top secret” or compartmentalized levels, they said. “It’s somewhere around 150 that have been subsequently upgraded” LQFODVVL¿FDWLRQ6WDWH'HSDUWPHQW spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. Still, the increasing amounts of blacked- out information from Clinton’s email history as secretary of state will surely prompt additional questions about her handling of government secrets while in RI¿FHDQGWKDWRIKHUPRVWWUXVWHGDGYLVHUV The Democratic presidential front-runner now says her use of a home email server for government business was a mistake, and government inspectors have pointed to exchanges that never should have been sent via unsecured channels. 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