UN climate summit stalls as US backs dispute over science report
Source: The Hill
The United Nations climate summit in Poland stalled over the weekend as the U.S. joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in declining to "welcome" a landmark study on worldwide climate change.
All four oil-producing nations are calling for the report to be "noted" rather than "welcomed," a semantic difference that the State Department said draws a line between a U.S. acknowledgement and a full-out endorsement, The Associated Press reported.
"The United States was willing to note the report and express appreciation to the scientists who developed it, but not to welcome it, as that would denote endorsement of the report, the State Department said in a statement, according to the AP.
The report, released in October by the the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warns that the world might be on a path toward catastrophic climate change if greenhouse gas emissions arent cut dramatically by 2030.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/420484-un-climate-summit-stalls-as-us-backs-dispute-over-science-report
Guppy
(444 posts)What the hell is wrong with the republican party.
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calimary
(80,700 posts)Good Grief I HATE these stories. Deeply frustrating and frightening! We're running out of time (to keep this planet habitable)...
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Doesn't that qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors"?
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(33,987 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)I've heard science from both sides.
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