The prominence of climate change has risen to the point that the issue is discussed in the White House Situation Room, President Obama said during a State Department forum for oceanic matters Thursday morning.

The president credited Secretary of State John Kerry for “elevating” the subject in public discourse, adding that doing so helps the administration more completely address the policies pertaining to it.

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