Barack Obama
Related: About this forumThe Paris Climate Deal Is President Obama’s Biggest Accomplishment
1. Climate change is different from other issues. The Obama administration has enacted important reforms to prevent a Great Depression, reform health care, overhaul the financial system and education, and craft important breakthroughs with Iran and Cuba. But climate change occupies a category of its own. The damage from climate change is irreversible. Melted glaciers cannot be easily refrozen; extinct species cannot be reborn; flooded coastal cities are unlikely to be rebuilt. Action to mitigate climate change has an urgency nothing else can match.
2. Paris is a BFD. In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for a global treaty to limit the effects of greenhouse-gas emissions. The United Nations spent the next quarter century trying, and failing, to organize effective world action, despite increasingly dire warnings of massive, deadly, irreversible change that would threaten human life as we know it. An extremely simple conclusion can be drawn from this timeline: A worldwide-climate-change agreement is incredibly hard to do. If the Paris agreement were a simple matter of serving some nice French meals and writing some vague feel-good goals, it would have taken less than a quarter-century to happen.
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It's a BFD Obama Supporters!
Jeff Gauvin @JeffersonObama
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I want to Thank SOS John Kerry and all the Leaders across the Planet who worked so long and hard for this Historic Paris Climate Change Agreement.
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This is the face of a man who knows something awesome is about to happen #COP21
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President Obama's Group~Mahalo~
steve2470
(37,468 posts)Cha
(305,386 posts)liberal N proud
(60,945 posts)Such as saving the economy from total collapse
Cha
(305,386 posts)for this? I doubt it.
At least it will go a long way to helping Climate Change.. that's the main thing!
Cha
(305,386 posts)These were the officials who helped set the US negotiating position for the talks or, perhaps more accurately, helped craft the deal according to US specifications in order to insulate Obama and the agreement from attacks.
When it came to Republicans in Congress, they wanted the agreement to be bullet-proof. That was no easy feat in a negotiation over an immensely complicated challenge involving nearly 200 countries, and half a dozen rival negotiating blocs.
We met the moment, Obama said in his address. The Paris agreement on its own would not end climate change, he said, but this agreement will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change, and will pave the way for even more progress, in successive stages, over the coming years.
The rest of the fascinating story..
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/13/climate-change-paris-deal-cop21-obama-administration-congress-republicans-environment?CMP=share_btn_tw
Brilliant! Thanks Obama!
William769
(55,815 posts)Cha
(305,386 posts)brer cat
(26,258 posts)his patience has been rewarded, and he has played his game to perfection. Simply amazing what he has accomplished.
K&R and thanks, Cha.
Cha
(305,386 posts)of history!
You're Welcome
KMOD
(7,906 posts)Thank you, President Obama.
Cha
(305,386 posts)Thank you!
Hekate
(94,626 posts)Cha
(305,386 posts)"failure of leadership". He is so on the wrong side of history.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,443 posts)Cha
(305,386 posts)At 11.30pm Paris time, a small group of White House officials dashed into a temporary plywood hut in the exhibition hall where, a few hours earlier, a historic legal agreement to cut emissions causing climate change was secured. They were just in time to catch a live feed of Barack Obama declaring a turning point for the world.
These were the officials who helped set the US negotiating position for the talks or, perhaps more accurately, helped craft the deal according to US specifications in order to insulate Obama and the agreement from attacks.
When it came to Republicans in Congress, they wanted the agreement to be bullet-proof. That was no easy feat in a negotiation over an immensely complicated challenge involving nearly 200 countries, and half a dozen rival negotiating blocs.
We met the moment, Obama said in his address. The Paris agreement on its own would not end climate change, he said, but this agreement will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change, and will pave the way for even more progress, in successive stages, over the coming years.
The rest of the fascinating story..
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/13/climate-change-paris-deal-cop21-obama-administration-congress-republicans-environment?CMP=share_btn_tw
Thank you, Tarheel!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Keep telling me there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans!
Cha
(305,386 posts)History will show how important this is.. and people who acknowledge and appreciate it are on the right side of history now.
Mahalo yalerdawg!
I love the neon sign!
Cha
(305,386 posts)Thank you!
Thank you Cha !
This is a BFD! Thank you President Obama and SOS Kerry.
Cha
(305,386 posts)Herman4747
(1,825 posts)Congratulations to him, and to President Obama.
I have doubts about the degree to which signatory countries will comply with their agreements