Friday, September 22, 2017

Syriasly? US now Alone in Snubbing Paris (with one Other Failed State)

This headline amused me.

It comes from Climate Denial Crock of the Week.

And then there were two. 
This week, Nicaragua, one of the few holdouts from the Paris climate accords, did an about-face and said it will sign the agreement. 
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced that the Central American nation of 6 million people ― about the size of Maryland ― would sign the landmark pact voluntarily committing nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to El Nuevo Diario, one of the nation’s major newspapers. 
After President Obama, who orchestrated the pact bringing together more than 190 nations, only two nations had yet to sign the agreement in April of this year. 
One was Syria, which was and still is in the middle of a bloody civil war. The other was Nicaragua, which attended 2015 talks but refused to sign the accord. 
President Trump announced his intent to make the United States the third nonparticipant in the pact because of, as he said in a speech in June“the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country.”
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