There is - as previously noted - only one major political party in the developed world that denies the science of climate change. This forces them into strange arguments, because they can't engage the scientific merit of change, so they make political arguments about China or India or they make spurious economic arguments that switching to renewables will bankrupt...someone.
They will no doubt crap all over the current accord, because they really have no other alternative. They have backed themselves into a corner and like the toddlers they are, they won't budge until everyone agrees to watch SpongeBob.
Ultimately, the climate talks will succeed or fail based on the technological advances that we seem to be creeping up on. Hopefully at some point, the 47% American people will move past their Oppositional Defiance Disorder if non-fossil fuels get cheap enough, because I have few illusions that the party that is bought and paid for by the coal industry will budge in time.
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