As someone who agrees with Obama that climate change is the largest threat to our nation and world , I ' m super relieved . Don ' t be . He changes his mind daily . There are reports that he ' s often influenced heavily by the last person he spoke to about the issue . Ultimately he ' s going to be governed by his wallet , and the wallets of his advisors . The entire Republican Party is in denial about climate change , so even if he did believe it was true he ' d be facing an uphill battle . and I don ' t think he really cares enough about most political battles to fight them , unless it becomes personalat which point he ' ll fight to the death . The thing to remember is that he ' s more interested in being president than he is in doing the job . This is an ego stroke , no more .