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From the satirical Borowitz Report in The New Yorker: WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling President Joe Biden “an authoritarian dictator of the most reprehensible kind,” Fox News has accused him of using the power of the federal government to improve the …

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Dr. Katharine Hayhoe’s presentation yesterday on global warming was fabulous. Of particular interest was her position on her Christian faith as it affects the role she plays as a scientist and advocate for climate change mitigation.

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From ThinkProgress: (As if you need to be told) Everything President Trump has said about President Obama’s climate plan and why he had to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord turns out to be a lie. 

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Quora.com bills itself as “a place to gain and share knowledge. It’s a platform (on which) to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers.”

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What should we make of the fact that the U.S. is the only country on Earth to withhold participation in the Paris Climate Accord?  Yes, this is a symbolic thumbing of the nose at the well-being of the world’s population, …

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The U.K. joins a growing list of nations that have committed to decommissioning all its coal-fired power plants, in this case by 2025.  

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We have a frequent commenter here who regularly voices his opinion that because the Paris Climate Accord is nonbinding that it’s merely symbolic. I respond:

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Yes, people of conscience are nauseated by the Unites States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and our using the 23rd U.N. Climate Convention as a venue to promote the continued and expanded use of fossil fuels.

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A reader asks: Craig, have you read the entire Paris Climate Accord document? I did! …..  It’s incredibly vague…. Why not step away from just spending money and maybe just maybe renegotiate the terms?   

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As we learned to our horror yesterday, the U.S. has again elected to make itself the pariah of the world, this time with its decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. But is there any reason to be surprised?  …

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