All the News You Are Glad You MissedA climate circus, a butter shortage, and Holocaust revisionism.Weekly Standard, Nov 18, 2017, Irwin M. Stelzer
The president was in Asia attempting to prevent both North Korea from going nuclear and a rigged trading system from destroying the American economy. Roy Moore was attempting to hang in there so he can turn Alabama blue and turn the Senate over to the Democrats. Congress was trying to pass a tax bill that will benefit big (but not small) business and repeal the mandate that undergirds health care for the old and the sick. With all of that going on, you might have missed the really important news. Here it is:
In Bonn the 25,000 delegates gathered to consider the next step in implementing the Paris agreement to reduce CO2 emissions didn’t have Donald Trump to kick around anymore—he was busy trying to avoid a nuclear clash with North Korea and anyhow doesn’t agree with Ivanka that the globe is heating up.
So a quartet of politicians became “Next in Line to Lead on Climate Change,” as the New York Times put it. China’s Xi Jinping declared his country had taken the “driving seat” in international cooperation to respond to climate change. Canada’s Justin Trudeau declared his country “unwavering in our commitment to fight climate change.” And the E.U. duo of Germany’s “climate chancellor” Angela Merkel, and French president Emmanuel Macron have pledged to fill the gap created by the absence of American leadership.
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