Guardian: “The US is claiming credit for “enormous” efforts on climate change – delivered in part by the carbon reductions from its investments in the controversial practice of “fracking” for shale gas. The claim came as nearly 200 governments gathered in Doha, Qatar, for two weeks of talks aimed at forging an agreement on the climate. Governments have until 2015 to draw up a binding treaty, the first since the 1997 Kyoto protocol, to cut greenhouse gas emissions and avoid dangerous global warming.”“Jonathan Pershing, a senior negotiator for the US, said: “Those who don’t know what the US is doing may not be informed of the scale and extent of the effort, but it’s enormous.” The United Nations’ top climate official, Christiana Figueres, called on countries to step up their efforts to reach an agreement. The Kyoto protocol took five years to draft, so the new deadline is tight, and scientific warnings have grown more stark in recent years.”
JL thought: Persching’s view is simply Orwellian. His gas industry climate-action heroes include people who speak in private of being able to kill off renewables.
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