Claim: Barack Obama told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy "that the number one threat to the military and the world today is global warming."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: "A Global Threat Emerges".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: He announced an increase in U.S. troop levels to 17,000 military personnel in February 2009 to "stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan," an area he said had not received the "strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Expressing puzzlement over questions about whether he is "black enough," Obama told an August 2007 meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists that "we're still locked in this notion that if you appeal to white folks then there must be something wrong."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Some climate researchers and activists have characterized it as an existential threat to civilization.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: During his presidency, Obama described global warming as the greatest long-term threat facing the world.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: President Obama said in September 2009 that if the international community would not act swiftly to deal with climate change that "we risk consigning future generations to an irreversible catastrophe...The security and stability of each nation and all peoples—our prosperity, our health, and our safety—are in jeopardy, and the time we have to reverse this tide is running out.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In 2009, President Barack Obama in the inaugural address called for the expanded use of renewable energy to meet the twin challenges of energy security and climate change.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In his January 24, 2012, State of the Union address, President Barack Obama restated his commitment to renewable energy, stating that he “will not walk away from the promise of clean energy.” Obama called for a commitment by the Defense Department to purchase 1,000 MW of renewable energy.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, in a 19 June 2017 interview with CNBC, acknowledged the existence of climate change and impact from humans, but said that he did not agree with the idea that carbon dioxide was the primary driver of global warming pointing instead to "the ocean waters and this environment that we live in".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, gave his first public address before a joint session of the United States Congress on Tuesday, February 24, 2009.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating anthropogenic climate change (global warming) that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The White House announced on 25 November 2009 that President Barack Obama is offering a U.S. target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Executive Order 13491 is an Executive Order issued on January 22, 2009 by United States President Barack Obama ordering compliance with US domestic law, and its international agreements, in its treatment of captives.