U.S. and 170 other nations sign historic climate agreement

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Secretary of State John F. Kerry joined the leaders of 170 nations Friday morning in signing an agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions as part of a global effort to ward off potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change.

The event, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, coincided with Earth Day and marked “the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement in a single day,” said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

“We are breaking records in this chambers, and this is good news. But there are also records being broken outside,” Ki-moon said, referencing the hotter-than-ever recorded temperatures of the first three months of 2016. Other events tied to climate change also have triggered sharp concern globally: Greenland’s massive ice sheet has experienced more melting this spring than researchers have ever seen. Coral reefs known for their eye-catching colors are turning white in warming seas, with the Great Barrier Reef experiencing unprecedented bleaching right now.

“We are in a race against time,”Ki-moon said.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/04/22/united-states-and-170-nations-sign-historic-climate-agreement/

 
Canadian attacks climate deal:


Cruz is criticizing the climate agreement being signed by the U.S. and 170 other countries on Friday as the Obama administration’s latest attack on American families.

“Rather than turning attention and resources to real national security threats, such as radical Islamic terrorists who want to kill us, the Obama administration is instead focused on the SUV parked in your driveway,” the conservative Texas senator said in a statement.

Cruz says the White House is “full of global warming alarmists.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-latest-un-says-history-in-making-at-climate-signing/2016/04/22/8e0a1718-088e-11e6-bfed-ef65dff5970d_story.html

And all across America, what is the issue being fought by conservatives?

Trans bathrooms! :rofl2:
 
Prime Minister Enele Sosene Sopoaga of Tuvalu, which has seen four of its small islands disappear into the Pacific Ocean since 2000, says the historic climate agreement has to be transformed into “an international call to action” that will change the world and the lives of future generations.

He said Tuvalu was not only signing but ratifying the Paris agreement on Friday and urged all countries to make sure it enters into force at the soonest possible time to ensure “that climate change is not irreversible.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-latest-un-says-history-in-making-at-climate-signing/2016/04/22/8e0a1718-088e-11e6-bfed-ef65dff5970d_story.html
 
Leonthecat said:
The only hope can be that it is not too little, too late.
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It may be too late, Brother Leon.

The deniers are still being funded by the producers of fossil fuels, aren't they?

Our planet may be like someone who already had lung cancer after the tobacco defense failed.
 
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