[jveritas]

He did not back down at all, he simply told them deal with it when he is not President anymore. In fact all his years in office he never submitted to any treaty regarding global warming.

[Capt. Tom]

He did not back down at all, he simply told them deal with it when he is not President anymore. In fact all his years in office he never submitted to any treaty regarding global warming.

That was my take also.
We just kicked the alleged problem down the road.
In a couple of years Global Warming might be seen in a different light. - Tom

[torchthemummy]

He did not back down at all, he simply told them deal with it when he is not President anymore. In fact all his years in office he never submitted to any treaty regarding global warming.

Thank-you. The vanity headline is completely misleading. As others said the issue has been kicked down the road. This article is desperately trying to create an image of "progress" when there has been basically none.

Any predictions made for 2100 means there are 92 years before that prediction can be disproved. Of course at that point the mass manipulation of data and the complete politicizing of science would disallow anything to be proved otherwise.

And if I hear the term "industrialized nations" as a criteria one more time without including China and India I'm going to explode.