President Barack Obama arrived in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday. He got straight down to business and delivered valuable, long-awaited remarks at the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER for short).
His speech was peppered with insightful, astounding facts and an aching of urgency. His words were a call to action, hopefully inspiring concrete, lasting change throughout the Arctic.
Referencing climate change deniers, he stated a favorite quote of the evening: "Those who want to ignore the science, they are increasingly alone. They’re on their own shrinking island." Read the full transcript at the Alaska Dispatch News.
Aerial photo from Southeast Alaska near Admiralty Island, home to one of the world's largest concentrations of brown bears.