{"id":6685,"date":"2012-01-08T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T08:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6685"},"modified":"2012-01-08T00:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T08:01:58","slug":"do-you-want-a-global-climate-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/do-you-want-a-global-climate-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want a Global Climate Agreement?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year, the global mean temperature rises.  Every year, more of the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets disappear.  Every year, the climate in different parts of the world continue to change.  Every year we become more aware of the need for a global climate agreement, if we hope to survive as a species.  And every year, Republicans stick their heads deeper into the sand, not to mention other locations, pretending that none of this even exists.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"6GOPClimate\"World leaders struck a deal<\/a><\/font> last month during the Durban United Nations conference that sets a path to a global climate deal by 2015 \u2014 a precarious agreement including major developing countries like China and India. However, a report by the research branch of the HSBC bank predicts a deal would be trashed if President Obama is not reelected. With climate denial and opposition to emissions limits rampant in the GOP field, HSBC finds a global deal would be \u201calmost impossible\u201d if a Republican wins the White House<\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n

[The] prospects for a new global climate deal in 2015 depend considerably on the election of a pro-climate action president. The election of a President opposed to climate action<\/strong><\/span> will not only damage growth prospects for low-carbon solutions in the USA itself, but will make the hard task of negotiating a new global agreement by 2015 almost impossible.<\/strong><\/span> If Obama is re-elected with support in both houses, we expect modest measures to introduce a federal clean energy standard for electricity; a stripped down cap and trade programme could re-emerge<\/strong><\/span> building on the regional scheme on the West and East coasts.<\/font><\/p>\n

Though some GOP contenders haven\u2019t always positioned themselves as climate zombies, everyone from Mitt Romney<\/a><\/font>, Newt Gingrich<\/a><\/font>, to Jon Huntsman<\/a><\/font> have doubted climate change science leading up to the primaries\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>] <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Now, I will be the first to admit that Obama\u2019s record on greenhouse gases is less than perfect.  For example, while he favors cap and trade, I favor a carbon tax with all the proceeds targeted to subsidizing research and development of green energy.  Nevertheless, Obama does favor both the development of green energy and the negotiation of a global agreement to curtail greenhouse gases.  Any vote in 2012 that does not serve to keep Republicans out of the White House, the House and the Senate is a vote to kiss our planet goodbye!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year, the global mean temperature rises.  Every year, more of the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets disappear.  Every year, the climate in different parts of the world continue to change.  Every year we become more aware of the need for a global climate agreement, if we hope to survive as a species.  And every […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}