2829 There are a few things that you can pretty much guarantee will appear in a State of the Union address: discussions of the economy and national security, and since Reagan at least, a description of the state of the union as “strong” (even in the bleak days of early 2010, President Obama affirmed that “despite our hardships, our union is strong”). One thing that has changed in the President's speeches over the last six years is the tack he has taken on climate change—when he’s addressed it at all. On Tuesday night, environmentalists, including May Boeve, Executive Director of the climate organization 350.org, hailed the SOTU, in which the President dedicated four full paragraphs to the climate crisis. It was, Boeve said, “a testament to the hard work of the millions of people who are a part of the growing climate movement.” The past year has been big for climate awareness, in large part thanks to September’s Peoples Climate March, which brought 400,000...