New Climate Agreement

See here for essential background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/cop-21-begins.html.

And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/climate-change-2015.html.

The COP 21 conference in Paris has ended in success. After an extra weekend of negotiations, the event has finally closed a deal christened, as I predicted, "The Paris Pact". This treaty has been called by US President Obama "The best chance we have to save the one planet we have.". All one hundred and ninety-five countries represented at the conference have signed up. This deal is different to previous ones because instead of specifying figures of Carbon™ emission reduction, it instead specifies a limit on global temperature rise; this must stay to below two degrees centigrade. How can anybody possibly predict temperature rises based on our action? It means there are no limits on how much Carbon™ nations can compel their people and industries to restrict. What if the Pact conditions demand that the only way to keep the heat below two degrees is to reduce Carbon™ emissions in China by 90 %? This could potentially be a mandate for forced mass deindustrialization, see here for more details: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/deindustrialization-confession.html. Also if we start getting up into the 1.8's and 1.9's the Paris Pact could be applied to justify overt geoengineering to stop it slipping over the two degree threshold. Frustratingly, in the wake of the announcement there have been protests by climate change pressure groups demanding even more action. One of them was in Paris, and strangely this is the only protest the French authorities have permitted since the terrorist attacks in the city last month. We now have an internationally imposed target to keep global temperatures from reaching more than two degrees above "pre-industrial levels"; presumably that doesn't mean the medieval warm period when the world's temperatures were naturally more than two degrees higher than today anyhow, or Roman times when there were vineyards in Cumbria. I'm curious to find out how the Oxford Martin School will react to this development, see links above. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35086346.