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*Trump looking at quickest way to quit Paris climate agreement, says 
report 
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/13/trump-looking-at-quickest-way-to-quit-paris-climate-agreement-says-report>*

    The president-elect wants to bypass the theoretical four-year
    procedure to exit the accord, according to a Reuters source
    Donald Trump is seeking quick ways of withdrawing from the Paris
    climate agreement in defiance of widening international backing for
    the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Reuters has reported...
    Since the US president-elect was chosen, governments ranging from
    China to small island states have reaffirmed support for the 2015
    Paris agreement at 200-nation climate talks running until 18
    November in Marrakesh, Morocco.... a source in the Trump transition
    team said the victorious Republican, who has called global warming a
    hoax, was considering ways to bypass a theoretical four-year
    procedure for leaving the accord...
    Despite the threat of a US withdrawal, US secretary of state John
    Kerry said on Sunday that he would continue his efforts to implement
    the Paris agreement until Barack Obama leaves office on 20 January....
    "Now the world’s scientific community has concluded that climate
    change is happening beyond any doubt. And the evidence is there for
    everybody to see," Kerry said.

    *What is the Paris agreement?*
    It's a climate change accord agreed by nearly 200 countries in
    December 2015, which came into force on 4 November 2016. The
    agreement commits world leaders to keeping global warming below 2C,
    seen as the threshold for safety by scientists, and pursuing a
    tougher target of 1.5C. The carbon emission curbs put forward by
    countries under Paris are not legally-binding but the framework of
    the accord, which includes a mechanism for periodically cranking
    those pledges up, is binding. The agreement also has a long-term
    goal for net zero emissions which would effectively phase out fossil
    fuels.

*China Warns Against Abandoning Climate Action 
<https://climatecrocks.com/2016/11/12/china-warns-against-abandoning-climate-action/>*

    Financial Times: China has warned Donald Trump that he will be
    defying the wishes of the entire planet if he acts on his vow to
    back away from the Paris climate agreement after he becomes US
    president next January.  In a sign of how far the world has shifted
    in recognizing the need to tackle global warming,  Beijing — once
    seen as an obstructive force in UN climate talks — is now leading
    the push for progress by responding to fears that Mr Trump would
    pull the US out of the landmark accord...
    "It is global society’s will that all want to co-operate to combat
    climate change," a senior Beijing negotiator said in Marrakesh on
    Friday, at the first round of UN talks since the Paris deal was
    sealed last December. The Chinese negotiators added that "any
    movement by the new US government" would not affect their transition
    towards becoming a greener economy...
    India also joined in the warnings, saying Mr Trump’s appointment
    would force countries to reassess an accord hailed as an end to the
    fossil fuel era....
    Recalling the way support for the earlier Kyoto protocol climate
    treaty crumbled after it was abandoned by another Republican
    president, George W Bush, Mr Prasad said he feared the Paris accord
    could suffer "a contagious disease that spreads" if the US withdrew.
    Mr Trump’s sweeping victory on Tuesday has shaken what had appeared
    to be an unstoppable bout of global action to tackle climate change
    in the run-up to the two-week Marrakesh talks, which began on Monday...


    Donald Trump,*climate*finance, and 'catastrophe'
    <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/donald-trump-climate-finance-catastrophe-161112133233776.html>

Aljazeera.com 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    President-elect Donald Trump's policies are likely to make it harder
    for developing nations to obtain the growing finance they need to
    combat*climate change*, threatening one pillar of a 2015
    international agreement to slow*global warming*. There is*...*


    Our Obligation to Humanity in the Face of*Climate Change*
    <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yasmine-sherif/our-obligation-to-humanit_b_12925940.html>

Huffington Post 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    Even if the ever-mounting evidence that climate change is and will
    disastrously affect our lives is proven otherwise, it behooves us to
    prepare for it and to mitigate its risks and threats. This is what
    any reasonable government, military, company or organization would
    do for unexpected scenarios. In the humanitarian world it’s called
    the ‘less-likely’ or ‘worst-case’ scenario...

    Fortunately, we have taken the first steps. The entry into force,
    this month, of theParis Climate Change Agreement
    <http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php>and the2015
    Adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
    <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs>, theCore Commitments of
    the World Humanitarian Summit based on the UN’s Agenda for Humanity
    of 2016
    <https://worldhumanitariansummit.org/sites/default/files/media/WHS%20Commitment%20to%20Action_8September2016.pdf>;
    and the entire body of Human Rights instruments, reflect and guide
    our collective responsibility to prevent, manage and reverse the
    disaster impact of climate change.

    Our global responsibility entails unpacking existing evidence of
    trends and current impacts, while also taking appropriate action. We
    have to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and look holistically
    and globally at economies, poverty, education, trade and human
    rights. And again, even if we are wrong about climate change, we
    will end up building a better world to equally serve humanity in all
    its corners.

    Meanwhile, let’s take afew figures from the NASA website
    <http://climate.nasa.gov/>to illustrate what global warming means.
    Nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. Sea
    levels are rising by 3.4 mm a year. 281 gigatonnes of land ice is
    today lost annually. Arctic Sea ice is disappearing at a rate of
    over 13% per decade.At the same time, around the world, our
    activities increased emissions of greenhouse gases by 35 percent
    from 1990 to 2010.
    <https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/greenhouse-gases>


*(History) Why the US/China Climate Deal is Real 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8zG6aVclI>*

    Video from 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8zG6aVclI


*This day in Climate History November 13, 2005* 
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/11/11/heat-is-on-case-global-warmin-989829467/>*  
 From D.R. Tucker  ----------*

    November 13, 2005: Fox News Channel airs "The Heat is On: The Case
    of Global Warming," [archived video not found] a special that
    reportedly (and surprisingly, considering Fox's track record) does
    not feature any climate-change deniers. After fossil-fuel-industry
    front groups attack Fox for not including their viewpoint, Fox runs
    a special several months later featuring the views of climate-change
    deniers.
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/11/11/heat-is-on-case-global-warmin-989829467/
    http://mediamatters.org/mobile/research/2012/10/24/timeline-fox-news-role-in-the-climate-of-doubt/190906

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