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Re: Nearly 200 Nations Adopt Climate Agreement At COP21 Talks In Paris

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nearly 200 Nations Adopt Climate Agreement At COP21 Talks In Paris
>> http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/12/459464621/final-draft-of-world-climate-agreement-goes-to-a-vote-in-paris-saturday
> 
> 
>> In what supporters hope is a landmark achievement, 196 nations
>> attending the COP21 climate meetings outside Paris voted to ratify a
>> draft agreement Saturday. Their respective governments will now need
>> to adopt the deal.

That is not going to happen.

>> Presenting the agreement aimed at curbing global warming hours before
>> the final vote was taken, France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius
>> told the delegations, "You go into this room to decide a historic
>> agreement. The world holds its breath and it counts on you."

Puerile nonsense.

>> The agreement, which was publicly released Saturday morning (ET),
>> sets the goal of limiting the world's rise in average temperature to
>> "well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and pursuing
>> efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius."

My goal is to win the state Lotto this week; I have a better chance of
reaching my goal.

>> Reporting on details of the deal, NPR's Christopher Joyce says, "To
>> help developing countries switch from fossil fuels to greener sources
>> of energy and adapt to the effects of climate change, the developed
>> world will provide $100 billion a year."
 
That is not going to happen. 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Nearly 200 Nations Adopt Climate Agreement At COP21 Talks In Paris Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-12 13:21 -0600
  Re: Nearly 200 Nations Adopt Climate Agreement At COP21 Talks In Paris jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-12 20:12 +0000
  Re: Nearly 200 Nations Adopt Climate Agreement At COP21 Talks In Paris Plexippus Kritikos <plexik@laertesegidio.org> - 2015-12-12 20:27 +0000
    Re: Nearly 200 Nations Adopt Climate Agreement At COP21 Talks In Paris Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-12-12 12:55 -0800
  Re: Nearly 200 Nations Adopt Climate Agreement At COP21 Talks In Paris Plexippus Kritikos <plexik@laertesegidio.org> - 2015-12-12 21:49 +0000
  Re: Nearly 200 Nations Adopt Climate Agreement At COP21 Talks In Paris gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-12 20:29 -0600

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