Chait: The Paris Climate Deal Is President Obama’s Biggest Accomplishment
President Barack Obama touts the climate agreement. Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Jonathan Chait argues that last week’s climate deal is the most significant of Obama’s long list of accomplishments. I tend to agree. See Chait’s recent piece below, and while I’m at it, here are some other recent contributions on the crucial issue of climate change.
- TNR – What Paris Climate Deal? GOP Candidates Move On As If Nothing Happened In the wake of the two-week climate conference in Paris, at which 195 countries agreed to significantly curb carbon emissions, the world has moved on to the question of how to implement such an ambitious plan. The fifth Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, however, will move in its own orbit. When Republicans have talked about climate change, it hasn’t been to propose solutions, but to ra…
- James Fallows – Obama: Chessmaster, not Pawn Four years ago at this time, I was in the middle of writing what became a cover story with the (immodest) title “Obama, Explained.” In it, I examined whether the slow, understated, long-game approach of a one-term president about to run…
- Jonathan Chait – The Paris Climate Deal Is President Obama’s Biggest Accomplishment This weekend, leaders from 196 countries approved the first global agreement to limit greenhouse-gas emissions in human history. The pact is a triumph of international diplomacy shared by diplomats across the planet. It also represents the culmination of a patient strategy by the Obama administration that unfolded over years, and…
- TNR – Ted Cruz’s Tiny Army of Climate-Denying Scientists Ted Cruz doesn’t believe in man-made climate change or the science behind it. So while diplomats in Paris attempt to negotiate an international deal to fight global warming, Cruz is in Washington railing against mainstream climate science and “partisan dogma and ideology.”On Tuesday, Cruz invited scientists who doubt the scientific consensus that climate change is real and driven by human activity…
- Matt Yglesias – Moneybox – Economists: Buckle Up, Climate Change Is Going to Be a Rough Ride With just two or three days remaining of official negotiations, the end game has arrived in the Paris climate talks. Round-the-clock negotiations are set to begin on Wednesday night, and there’s still a lot to be decided. What’s not up for negotiation is the eventual impact humanity may feel if governments continue on their current path. Nearly every country has pledged to do something, but those…
- Jonathan Chait – Whether Up Is Down or Down Is Up , There’s Never a Need to Reduce Emissions at The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page For a few years now, President Obama has had this crazy idea in his head that he could work together with China to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But The Wall Street Journal editorial page understood all along that this preposterous scheme could never work. “Mr. Obama’s logic seems to be that…
- Paul Krugman (column) – Republicans’ Climate Change Denial Denial Elected Republicans deny climate change and moderate unelected Republicans who recognize it are in denial that the deniers will smarten up.
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