Earth Day: 175 Nations Sign Historic Paris Climate Deal (usatoday.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from USA Today: World leaders from 175 countries signed the historic Paris climate accord Friday, using Earth Day as a backdrop for the ceremonial inking of a long-fought deal that aims to slow the rise of harmful greenhouse gases. The deal sets a target of limiting global warming by 2100 to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees F), as compared to pre-industrial levels. To accomplish that, each nation sets its own target for reducing emissions and updates that mark each year. Friday's signing sets a record for the number of countries signing an agreement on the first available day, the Associated Press reported. The old record goes back to the Law of the Sea in Montego Bay, which was signed by 119 countries in 1982, according to AccuWeather. Signing the accord is only one step in the process. The leaders must now go back to their home countries' governments to ratify and approve the agreement, which could take months or years. The deal goes into effect once 55 countries representing at least 55% of global emissions formally join.

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Meaningless

[afidel]

Unless the rural parts of the US stop sending useful idiots to Congress we'll never be able to implement it and if we don't then there's zero chance that China does and the two of us represent about 45% of current GHG emissions.

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[KiloByte]

Fuck Allah. Fuck Jesus. Fuck Yahveh. Fuck Jehovah. Fuck Vishnu. Fuck Xenu. Fuck Kim Il Sung (as much a god as the rest). Fuck Ahura Mazda. Fuck all the rest.

Sorry, but religions are the single worst plague that befalls humanity. Christianity alone put the world's scientific progress back by ~1500 years. There's not a single good thing to be said about Islam. Juche turns the lives of its (often forced, like in Islam) worshippers into a hellhole. And so on, so on.

Religion deserves strictly less respect than Yersinia pestis or syphillis, as it claimed far more casualties and hurt the quality of life of surviving victims than those.