++The Paris deal was greeted with matter of fact explanation by the Wall Street Journal ,Business Insider and the Financial Times . All of whom seemed to focus on the business opportunities presented by the deal.
++Mitch McConnell huffed and puffed about "shredding the deal" within 13 months time--that is if a Republican becomes President. I always enjoy older white males "warning" President Obama "don't do this or we'll get mad."
++Climate change may not be a settled issue in our Congress or among Republicans but Paris settled it globally once and for all.
++The right's response was to sneer about Al Gore showing up in photos and refuse to acknowledge that whatever you think this showed American leadership. The other comments were that this was about "wealth redistribution"--something the right loves if it goes upwards.
++I never knew why the Right really loathes Al Gore. I suspect it may be a guilty conscience over stealing the 2000 election. But then we have to realize Gore had shared the Noble Peace Prize for his efforts to educate people on global climate change.
++While it has been said that this is an issue only Hollywood cared about, it was clear that the "civil society" around the world demanded an agreement.
++The New York Times gave the climate deal the appropriate "historic" coverage it deserved.
++But I talked to several people my age yesterday and found that there was either indifference to the deal or just cynical remarks about how bad were the State Department negotiators this time.
++It wasn't that these people had any political leanings or another,for some in my age group it just doesn't excite interest the way it does with millennials.
++I won't go into the problems with the deal now but it expects enormous technological innovations in the near future that will make the deal's goals achievable.
++If you could get a deal from 200 nations on chicken farming, it would be amazing. This was absolutely miraculous.
++John Podesta said that this was "core Obama" but he couldn't move until the United States was perceived as being a leader in climate change. And that's why he moved on the domestic front to take actions to set our emissions limits. Through the administration's efforts America's emissions are now the lowest in twenty years.
++The Obama Administration set the standard and either the next one surpasses it or fails. But the language of the debate is his and will not be surrendered to the climate deniers in the GOP.
++Does anyone remember in the 2008 election that both President Obama and John McCain agreed that there was a problem? It was that they disagreed on methods of tackling it. How long ago that seems.
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