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Hollande: US Must Respect 'Irreversible' Climate Deal
"July 2016 Was The Hottest Month Ever Recorded"
By karl ritter, associated press
MARRAKECH, Morocco — Nov 15, 2016, 10:27 AM ET
WATCH Carbon Dioxide Levels in the Atmosphere Reach New Heights
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French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday urged the United States to respect the "irreversible" Paris Agreement on climate change, and said France will lead a dialogue on the topic with President-elect Donald Trump "on behalf of the 100 countries that have ratified" the deal.
Speaking to a U.N. climate conference in Morocco, Hollande praised U.S. President Barack Obama for his role in getting the landmark pact adopted in the French capital last year.
"The United States, the most powerful economy in the world, the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases .. http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/energy/greenhouse-gases.htm , must respect the commitments that were made," he said. "It's not simply their duty, it's in their interest."
Scientists say oil and other fossil fuels are the biggest contributors to man-made warming. Trump, however, has called global warming .. http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/energy/global-warming.htm .. a "hoax" and pledged during his campaign to "cancel" the Paris deal.
"The agreement was historic," Hollande said. "But what we must say here is that this agreement is irreversible."
Earlier, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hopes Trump will shift his course on global warming and "understand the seriousness and urgency" of addressing the problem.
"As president of the United States, I'm sure that he will understand this, he will listen and he will evaluate his campaign remarks," Ban told reporters in Marrakech.
The Paris Agreement was signed by more than 190 countries and has been formally approved
by more than 100 of them, including the United States and even oil-rich Saudi Arabia ..
http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/saudi-arabia.htm .
Ban called international climate action "unstoppable" and said that no country, "however resourceful or powerful," is immune from the impacts of global warming.
"We have no right to gamble with the fate of future generations — or imperil the survival of other species that share our planet," Ban told the conference.
Trump's election has created uncertainty about the U.S. role in the Paris deal, which calls on all countries to reduce or curb their greenhouse gas emissions and encourages rich countries to help poor ones deal with climate change.
King Mohammed VI of Morocco urged delegates at the conference to translate their commitments into actions.
"What's at stake is the very existence of man," the king said. "It is therefore our joint duty to work hand in hand to protect humanity."
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Associated Press writer Samia Errazzouki contributed to this report.
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Dot Earth - New York Times blog
Prospects for the Climate, and Environmentalism, Under President Trump
By Andrew C. Revkin November 9, 2016 1:09 pm
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/prospects-for-the-environment-and-environmentalism-under-president-trump/?_r=1
That is a long one with many links, one of them leading to this one.
Forget Canada. Stay and Fight for American Democracy.
By Jonathan Chait
Photo: The Washington Post/Washington Post/Getty Images
Before the election, like many liberals, I made a lot of jokes about moving to Canada. It was a way for people to deal with our anxiety. It’s not funny anymore, and people discussing it — reportedly, Canada’s immigration website has crashed due to excessive interest — are beginning to disgust me. I love this country. I believe in it. I’m not leaving. I’m sorry to sound hokey, but I’m going to stay and defend truth and democracy.
Never in my lifetime has the United States seen a period of darkness like the one that lies ahead of us. But we have seen periods of darkness before — segregation, McCarthyism, the internment of the Japanese, the Civil War, slavery. The American story is fitful progress punctuated by frequent reversals, some of which appeared at the time like they would last forever. None of them did.
The Trump years will be a horror. When I set out to write my long story in the magazine .. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/the-gops-age-of-authoritarianism-has-only-just-begun.html .. about Trumpism and the future of the Republican Party, I originally intended to focus on the immediate possibilities that lay before the Republican Party if it could capture full control of Washington. As this scenario grew less likely, I gave it less emphasis, but it is there. The Republicans will pass massive regressive tax cuts; they will take access to medical care from the poor and sick; they will deregulate the financial industry and fossil-fuel emitters.
And that is just the beginning, the best-case scenario. Trump is an impulsive, egotistical bully, intolerant of criticism and dissent and drawn to the ruthless application of power. Many liberals have been warning that American democracy is far weaker than we believed, and this was before any of us imagined a monster like Trump commanding the Executive branch. Trump will shake the Republic to its foundations. And the Republicans will shake it with him. If there is a central point I tried to drive home, it is that Trumpism grows out of a decades-long trend toward authoritarianism as the dominant tendency of Republican politics. I don’t know what American government will look like after four years of Trump — or if it will only last four years, or even if it will only last eight.
But I do not believe that the people who elected Trump will be helped by his program in any way. Trump avoided policy specifics to a comical degree. His health-care plan is “something terrific” that will take care of everybody at no cost to anybody. His wall paid for by Mexico is not even a punch line — it is a symbol of his supporters’ fascistic willingness to subordinate all critical faculties and endorse an obvious absurdity. What he will do is sign a quick succession of donor-driven laws written by Paul Ryan whose authentic support is confined to a trivial proportion of the party outside its big-money wing. To whatever extent people voted for Trump for reasons other than racial and cultural resentment, Trump will do nothing for them. He is a buffoon surrounded by a party apparatus that is unable to govern, as the Republican elite demonstrated during the George W. Bush era, and that has grown worse.
At the end of this month, the president-elect of the United States will face trial .. https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pending-lawsuits-75a49b1db1ee#.el5uqbxch .. for committing massive fraud through Trump University. He openly vows to have his children run his family business, which will enrich him through his office in the manner of a post-Soviet kleptocrat. The depths of a Trump presidency defy our imagination. It is safe to assume it will not be popular. Trump and his party will probably respond with vicious anti-democratic measures. But fighting for democracy is part of America’s heritage, from abolitionists to suffragettes to the progressive reformers. Maybe you thought that fight was confined to history. It will go on.
And Trump does not represent the future. He only barely represents its present. His party controls all three branches in large part because its voters are overrepresented in the House, the Senate, and the Electoral College. He represents a rage against the direction of America they have no way of stopping. Even a complete halt to all of illegal immigration and a total deportation of every undocumented immigrant will not prevent the growth of nonwhites into an eventual majority. Republicans are increasingly focused on voter suppression and other anti-democratic measures to allow their shrinking cohort to rule. Trump is the perfect champion of their project.
But I do not believe they will win, at least not over the long run. As the shock of a Trump presidency set in, I told my children Tuesday night that I did not want to hear anything about fleeing. We are not going anywhere. And the America I have raised them to believe in will one day prevail.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/forget-canada-stay-and-fight-for-american-democracy.html
See also:
Obama formally joins US into climate pact
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124951151
World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns ..
with a 2nd article .. Data app pushes Chinese factories to cut pollution
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126348760
"July 2016 Was The Hottest Month Ever Recorded"
By karl ritter, associated press
MARRAKECH, Morocco — Nov 15, 2016, 10:27 AM ET
WATCH Carbon Dioxide Levels in the Atmosphere Reach New Heights
Insert You Tube
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday urged the United States to respect the "irreversible" Paris Agreement on climate change, and said France will lead a dialogue on the topic with President-elect Donald Trump "on behalf of the 100 countries that have ratified" the deal.
Speaking to a U.N. climate conference in Morocco, Hollande praised U.S. President Barack Obama for his role in getting the landmark pact adopted in the French capital last year.
"The United States, the most powerful economy in the world, the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases .. http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/energy/greenhouse-gases.htm , must respect the commitments that were made," he said. "It's not simply their duty, it's in their interest."
Scientists say oil and other fossil fuels are the biggest contributors to man-made warming. Trump, however, has called global warming .. http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/energy/global-warming.htm .. a "hoax" and pledged during his campaign to "cancel" the Paris deal.
"The agreement was historic," Hollande said. "But what we must say here is that this agreement is irreversible."
Earlier, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hopes Trump will shift his course on global warming and "understand the seriousness and urgency" of addressing the problem.
"As president of the United States, I'm sure that he will understand this, he will listen and he will evaluate his campaign remarks," Ban told reporters in Marrakech.
The Paris Agreement was signed by more than 190 countries and has been formally approved
by more than 100 of them, including the United States and even oil-rich Saudi Arabia ..
http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/saudi-arabia.htm .
Ban called international climate action "unstoppable" and said that no country, "however resourceful or powerful," is immune from the impacts of global warming.
"We have no right to gamble with the fate of future generations — or imperil the survival of other species that share our planet," Ban told the conference.
Trump's election has created uncertainty about the U.S. role in the Paris deal, which calls on all countries to reduce or curb their greenhouse gas emissions and encourages rich countries to help poor ones deal with climate change.
King Mohammed VI of Morocco urged delegates at the conference to translate their commitments into actions.
"What's at stake is the very existence of man," the king said. "It is therefore our joint duty to work hand in hand to protect humanity."
———
Associated Press writer Samia Errazzouki contributed to this report.
---
Dot Earth - New York Times blog
Prospects for the Climate, and Environmentalism, Under President Trump
By Andrew C. Revkin November 9, 2016 1:09 pm
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/prospects-for-the-environment-and-environmentalism-under-president-trump/?_r=1
That is a long one with many links, one of them leading to this one.
Forget Canada. Stay and Fight for American Democracy.
By Jonathan Chait
Photo: The Washington Post/Washington Post/Getty Images
Before the election, like many liberals, I made a lot of jokes about moving to Canada. It was a way for people to deal with our anxiety. It’s not funny anymore, and people discussing it — reportedly, Canada’s immigration website has crashed due to excessive interest — are beginning to disgust me. I love this country. I believe in it. I’m not leaving. I’m sorry to sound hokey, but I’m going to stay and defend truth and democracy.
Never in my lifetime has the United States seen a period of darkness like the one that lies ahead of us. But we have seen periods of darkness before — segregation, McCarthyism, the internment of the Japanese, the Civil War, slavery. The American story is fitful progress punctuated by frequent reversals, some of which appeared at the time like they would last forever. None of them did.
The Trump years will be a horror. When I set out to write my long story in the magazine .. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/the-gops-age-of-authoritarianism-has-only-just-begun.html .. about Trumpism and the future of the Republican Party, I originally intended to focus on the immediate possibilities that lay before the Republican Party if it could capture full control of Washington. As this scenario grew less likely, I gave it less emphasis, but it is there. The Republicans will pass massive regressive tax cuts; they will take access to medical care from the poor and sick; they will deregulate the financial industry and fossil-fuel emitters.
And that is just the beginning, the best-case scenario. Trump is an impulsive, egotistical bully, intolerant of criticism and dissent and drawn to the ruthless application of power. Many liberals have been warning that American democracy is far weaker than we believed, and this was before any of us imagined a monster like Trump commanding the Executive branch. Trump will shake the Republic to its foundations. And the Republicans will shake it with him. If there is a central point I tried to drive home, it is that Trumpism grows out of a decades-long trend toward authoritarianism as the dominant tendency of Republican politics. I don’t know what American government will look like after four years of Trump — or if it will only last four years, or even if it will only last eight.
But I do not believe that the people who elected Trump will be helped by his program in any way. Trump avoided policy specifics to a comical degree. His health-care plan is “something terrific” that will take care of everybody at no cost to anybody. His wall paid for by Mexico is not even a punch line — it is a symbol of his supporters’ fascistic willingness to subordinate all critical faculties and endorse an obvious absurdity. What he will do is sign a quick succession of donor-driven laws written by Paul Ryan whose authentic support is confined to a trivial proportion of the party outside its big-money wing. To whatever extent people voted for Trump for reasons other than racial and cultural resentment, Trump will do nothing for them. He is a buffoon surrounded by a party apparatus that is unable to govern, as the Republican elite demonstrated during the George W. Bush era, and that has grown worse.
At the end of this month, the president-elect of the United States will face trial .. https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pending-lawsuits-75a49b1db1ee#.el5uqbxch .. for committing massive fraud through Trump University. He openly vows to have his children run his family business, which will enrich him through his office in the manner of a post-Soviet kleptocrat. The depths of a Trump presidency defy our imagination. It is safe to assume it will not be popular. Trump and his party will probably respond with vicious anti-democratic measures. But fighting for democracy is part of America’s heritage, from abolitionists to suffragettes to the progressive reformers. Maybe you thought that fight was confined to history. It will go on.
And Trump does not represent the future. He only barely represents its present. His party controls all three branches in large part because its voters are overrepresented in the House, the Senate, and the Electoral College. He represents a rage against the direction of America they have no way of stopping. Even a complete halt to all of illegal immigration and a total deportation of every undocumented immigrant will not prevent the growth of nonwhites into an eventual majority. Republicans are increasingly focused on voter suppression and other anti-democratic measures to allow their shrinking cohort to rule. Trump is the perfect champion of their project.
But I do not believe they will win, at least not over the long run. As the shock of a Trump presidency set in, I told my children Tuesday night that I did not want to hear anything about fleeing. We are not going anywhere. And the America I have raised them to believe in will one day prevail.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/forget-canada-stay-and-fight-for-american-democracy.html
See also:
Obama formally joins US into climate pact
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124951151
World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns ..
with a 2nd article .. Data app pushes Chinese factories to cut pollution
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126348760
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