Posted on 11/07/2017 10:04:06 AM PST by Trump20162020
WASHINGTON Then there was one.
Syria announced during United Nations climate talks on Tuesday that it would sign the Paris agreement on climate change. The move, which comes on the heels of Nicaragua signing the accord last month, will leave the United States as the only country that has rejected the global pact.
According to several people who were in a plenary session at the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, a Syrian delegate announced that the country was poised to send its ratification of the Paris agreement to the United Nations.
This is the very last country that actually announced, so everyone has joined and the U.S. is now so isolated, said Safa Al Jayoussi, executive director of IndyAct, an environmental organization based in Lebanon that works with Arab countries on climate change.
A White House spokeswoman, Kelly Love, pointed reporters to a statement the administration made when Nicaragua joined the pact, noting there had been no change in the United States position.
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BBC said now the World will Isolate the US ,LOL
Without billions from the US, the while thing will implode.
Well, if Syria, the home of a large number of the world’s most intelligent people (GUFFAW!) is on board, that tears it! Where do we sign up? /sarc
BBC said now the World will Isolate the US ,LOL
Is that a promise?
BBC said now the World will Isolate the US ,LOL
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Good, the good old USA can “pollute” all we want, because the rest of the world has cleaned up their acts.
I wish I had my 1979 Ford Ltd wagon. We took off the catalytic converters. If I gunned the gas, the car backfire and blow a plume of smoke. Scared the heck out of a ton of tailgaters.
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