President Obama Monday night blamed human activity for disrupting the Earth’s climate quicker than thought, while condemning climate change deniers.

“Human activity is disrupting the climate … faster than we previously thought,” he told a group of global leaders assembled in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the impact of climate change on the Arctic. “The science is stark. It is sharpening. It proves that this once-distant threat is very much in the present.

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