++The most underreported story this week is how Mitch McConnell is using his office to try and scuttle the global climate talks in Paris. Apparently he is secretly contacted foreign governments to let them to know any agreement the Obama administration will reach there will be null and void under a Republican administration.
++So far the foreign governments are ignoring the Republican's plea to step back from a ground-breaking agreement. But the threat is there as the GOP has even threatened to impeach Gina McCarthy, the head of the EPA. The EPA has been winning court battles but losing some.
++The Republican fight machine turned into overdrive after President Obama made a point of focusing on climate change during his trip to Alaska.
++Meanwhile America's governor, Jerry Brown has embarked on the most ambitious climate change agenda of any state, promising 50% renewables by 2050.
++Brown trolled GOP candidate Ben Carson when he denied humans were the cause of climate change. Brown sent him the United Nations report on the subject.
++The Paris Talks will conclude as the GOP heads into Iowa and New Hampshire. Climate change will become one of the primary ekection issues in 2016 whether you like it or not.
++Mitch McConnell's actions seem eerily parallel to Senator Cotton and 47 Republican Senators trying to sabotage the Iran Nuclear talks by writing the Ayatollah Khamenei to ignore the President of the United States because Congress has the final say-- which they did not.
++It's been many a year since Partisanship stopped at the water's edge.
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