U.S., China Agree To Climate Emissions Deal

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Is it just me or is the U.S. becoming a really special kind of stupid under the current administration?
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China gets a good deal: permission to keep raising emissions for 16 years while the US - its great strategic rival - promises to make its electricity even dearer quicker: 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Obama struck a deal Wednesday to limit greenhouse gases, with China committing for the first time to cap carbon emissions and Obama unveiling a plan for deeper U.S. emissions reductions through 2025.

China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, pledged in the far-reaching agreement to cap its rapidly growing carbon emissions by 2030, or earlier if possible. It also set a daunting goal of increasing the share of non-fossil fuels to 20 percent of the country’s energy mix by 2030.

Obama announced a target to cut U.S. emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, the first time the president has set a goal beyond the existing 17 percent target by 2020.(Climate Change Dispatch)

...so let me get this straight: they get to cut their emissions on a far-longer timeline, while we have a far-shorter timeline to cut emissions (if that's even possible sometimes)...what, is President Obama stuck on stupid or something?


Meanwhile, back here in the U.S.:

St. Cloud, Minn., got 13.2 inches of snow Monday, breaking the all-time November calendar-day record of 12 inches set on Nov. 21, 1898.(Climate Change Dispatch)

 

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