Obama Heads to Alaska Urging Aggressive Climate Action in Arctic

President Barack Obama is making Alaska the last leg of a 14,000-mile trip focusing on climate change in advance of a critical international meeting. Scientists say this year the average glacier will lose 30 inches of thickness.

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