"Obama Insists Climate Deal Will Outlast GOP 'Climate Denial'"

"With a Paris climate agreement just over a week old, President Obama is singling out the GOP on climate change. In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, the president lambasted Republicans, whom he views as excessively contrarian on the issue.

'The Republican Party in the United States is perhaps literally the only major party in the developed world that is still engaging in climate denial,' he said. Here's his explanation for calling the GOP's stance an outlier on climate, even compared with 'far-right' parties in other places:

The statement echoes comments he made in a Friday press conference.

Conservatives in other major democracies are often less likely than liberals — sometimes by wide margins — to believe that climate change will harm them personally and that rich countries should do more to stop climate change. The Pew Research Center found these sorts of trends (to varying degrees) in Australia, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom, as well as the U.S."

Danielle Kurtzleben reports for NPR December 21, 2015.