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Paris Climate Deal Adopted
jones_supa writes: 195 countries have adopted the first global pact to fight climate change by reducing emissions. Countries will have to publish greenhouse gas reduction targets and revise them upward every 5 years, while striving to drive down their carbon output as soon as possible, under the ambitious climate-change pact announced Saturday morning at UN talks in Paris. The agreement commits countries to keeping global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and hopes to limit it to 1.5 C, with the goal of a carbon-neutral world sometime after 2050. The 31-page text called the Paris Agreement (PDF) was distributed to countries for them to assess, then agreed to at a plenary session.
Now we need conferences to control our planets orbit and another to control the sun.
I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
As an American, I'm angry that our President has chosen to take time away from pressing maters here at home to waste in discussing what amounts to a political fantasy with like minded idiots and self interested opportunists from Europe, Africa and Asia. Everybody knows or should know that the US Congress will never ratify any agreement from Paris and that many Americans strongly disagree with President Obama on what our domestic and foreign priorities are. To put it plainly, President Obama is a lame duck with no meaningful support in Congress nor frankly among the American people. The Paris agreement is dead on arrival. It means nothing and I hope that future American Presidents will ignore it completely.
Based on the signatories' examples, I'd say taking frequent Jet-trips to conferences is definitely well within the allowable activities.
Seriously.. they couldn't teleconference this one? Are they trying to send the message that it's all bullshit?
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