Dropping the Ball on Climate Change – It is a Big Club
Talk is cheap when our local pols offer press statements about climate change instead of taking clear actions. http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14411-dropping-the-ball-on-climate-change-it-is-a-big-club DICK PLATKIN, CityWatch LA, 22 NOVEMBER 2017 LOS ANGELES PLATKIN ON PLANNING-- For those who care about the planet’s future, it has not been a good week. There are no shortages of public officials who have dropped the ball, despite their power and bully pulpit to do good. (Graphic above: Maps of planet earth documenting observed global warming.) The most egregious example took place at the recent United Nations Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany, where holdouts Syria and Nicaragua finally signed the Paris Climate Accords. This leaves the United States as the sole country that is not a signatory. At Bonn the U.S. delegation also made the peculiar case for the continued burning of fossil fuels, including coal, as a mitigation