The United Nations climate summit in Poland stalled over the weekend as the U.S. joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in declining to "welcome" a landmark study on worldwide climate change.
All four oil-producing nations are calling for the report to be "noted" rather than "welcomed," a semantic difference that the State Department said draws a line between a U.S. acknowledgement and a full-out endorsement, The Associated Press reported.
"The United States was willing to note the report and express appreciation to the scientists who developed it, but not to welcome it, as that would denote endorsement of the report,” the State Department said in a statement, according to the AP.
The report, released in October by the the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warns that the world might be on a path toward catastrophic climate change if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t cut dramatically by 2030.
“As we have made clear in the IPCC and other bodies, the United States has not endorsed the findings of the report," the State Department continued.
(MADISON, Wis.) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers said Sunday he’s not optimistic that outgoing governor Scott Walker will veto bills approved by the Republican-dominated Legislature that would limit the new governor’s power.
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Evers said he talked by telephone with Walker recently and appealed to him to veto the legislation, but that Walker was noncommittal.
What thoroughly bankrupt thinking. Monopolies are the natural end point of these "free markets". To avoid them you need BIG GUBMINT. I know it's difficult for conservative types, but try thinking any one idea through as far as you are able to prevent these embarrassing ideological contradictions.
witch hunt
A new hire at the Denver's Sheriff's office. Seems nice.
Those Russians are every where...hardest working agent provocateurs in the business...someone should make sure they get good yelp reviews
Brexit? Russia
Trump? Russia
Le Pen? Russia
AfD? Russia
Babis? Russia
Salvini? Russia
#GiletsJaunes? Russia
Every form of backlash against the Neo liberal world order that has failed the people is not organic at all and it’s all tied to Russia. Imagine believing this.