The hubris is unreal - from Yahoo/Reuters comes this report from yet another wonderfully cushy resort town with great amenities and to which, all of the participants flew in their private jets - use Skype? The horrors...
France, UN tell Trump action on climate change unstoppable
MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - France and the United Nations on Tuesday stepped up warnings to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump about the risks of quitting a 2015 global plan to combat climate change, saying a historic shift from fossil fuels is unstoppable.
French President Francois Hollande, addressing almost 200 nations meeting in Morocco on ways to slow global warming, said that inaction would be "disastrous for future generations and it would be dangerous for peace".
Both he and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Trump, who has called man-made global warming a hoax, to drop a campaign pledge to cancel the global 2015 Paris Agreement that aims to shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energies.
"The United States, the largest economic power in the world, the second largest greenhouse gas emitter, must respect the commitments it has undertaken," Hollande said to applause. The agreement was "irreversible", he said.
In such U.N. meetings, it is very rare for leaders to single out others for even veiled criticism. Both Hollande and Ban were among the architects of the Paris Agreement.
First of all, the USA is not the second largest worldwide CO2 emitter - the Oceans are the first, Earth's land masses are the second. Earth's volcanoes are third. China comes in at a very distant fourth and we are greatly smaller at fifth.
As for "irreversible" - I am betting that Trump's reply - if not turning around and walking out from the conference call - will be: Watch This. It is going to be a lot of fun watching hippies heads exploding over the next eight-plus years. It will be doubleplusgood.
UPDATE: Go here and read: Climate Report to UN: Trump right, UN wrong – Skeptics Deliver Consensus Busting ‘State of the Climate Report’ to UN Summit
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