US undermining 'last chance' climate talks, experts charge

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Source: CNN




Updated 4:44 PM ET, Mon December 10, 2018


Don't believe these climate change lies 02:35

Katowice, Poland (CNN)The American delegation came to promote coal.
And the kids laughed in their faces.


That was the bizarre and symbolic scene that unfolded Monday at the UN COP24 climate talks at a spaceship-shaped conference center in Polish coal country.

The nations of the world are meeting here to hash out a "rulebook" to help ensure the viability of humanity -- preventing runaway global warming from causing even greater calamity in the form of superstorms, searing droughts and deadly heat waves.

That work, which follows up on the 2015 Paris Agreement, is seen as more critical now than ever. A damning report from the United Nations this fall said there's only about a decade left to avoid the worst of climate change. The message: cut fossil fuel pollution to "net zero" in just a few decades...............................................

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/world/climate-change-us-coal-cop24/index.html

[melm00se]

1. and yet

not a peep about China (who has the largest carbon emissions foot print) or India (whose carbon emissions are expected to increase by 6+% this year).

This is a global problem and thus all countries must be held equally accountable.