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“There have been challenges in the negotiations with the United States,” one of these officials said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to northern Finland for the two-day session next week with fellow foreign ministers from Nordic nations, Canada and Russia. The meeting is the first high-level gathering of the Arctic Council since the United States announced in June 2017 its withdrawal in from the 2016 Paris global agreement on reducing carbon emissions.
Two officials said they do not expect the document to refer to the Paris agreement, now that the United States is pulling out — an apparent compromise. The other seven Arctic nations are all signatories. The Obama administration, particularly former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, saw the Arctic Council — which includes the United States, Canada, Russia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland — as a vehicle for talking about climate change because of the dramatic pace of events in the region.
The council and its agenda are more important for other members, most of which have a national identity intertwined with the region and consider the body the pre-eminent forum for addressing Arctic issues. The United States is a member because of Alaska. “Go look at the countries that are still in the Paris agreement and see what their CO2 emissions were. It’s one thing to sign a document; it’s another thing to actually change your behavior,” Pompeo said.
“It is the central issue for the Arctic Council to address. The joint statement of ministers of the Arctic Council must reflect the urgency of Arctic decline and the commitment of governments to act with absolute urgency to respond,” Pomerance said. “The fate of Greenland is the fate of Miami.”
Let’s face it he’s just DUMB
.realDonaldTrump admin is driving environmental policies detrimental to Americans and the world as well as the One Million species currently facing extinction.
Human driven Climate Change & Global Warming are the Real National Emergency. Our planetary ecosystem is pushed into smaller areas. It can not keep up with our waste, deforestation, damaging mining & continuous population growth. It dies, every thing dies. ThereIsNoPlanetB
Superman’s dad was right about Kryton. What happens when ignore the scientists.
Denying climat change is utter stupidity.
And?
As always it's about OIL...and Russia is drilling too.
So shocking and so sad !! Terrible for our grandchildren and our planets other inhabitants the animal kingdom
Jerks!
Because they want the ice to melt so Exxon and Russia can get the 7 billion gallons of oil under there.
Good. Removing the made up BS is a good thing.
This is an order from Putin
Removing the words climatechange does not change the reality of ClimateCrisis
Fantastic
I mean if your really for protecting the world from clement change, then you should be okay with not using a car or any special hair care products, nothing. You can’t use anything that contributes to climate change, if you really believe in this shit. Then don’t drive a car.
How crazy is that?
Because the truth is not really the truth. - Giuliani
MalcolmNance !984. Ignore what you see and hear. it's only true if POTUS says it. People! GOP!!!! Wake Up!!!
The man is ignorant and incurious. He was raised not to care, inquire, or think. He was raised to survey for opportunity, then scheme, cheat, defraud, and default to enrich himself. He long ago ceased to be capable of any action outside those parameters.
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JanJanWard djt sad sorry excuse for a human
We're in the second half of this Donald Trump movie and it's still a horror show. And unlike Get Out, it's not funny and we can't get out.
MalcolmNance insanity...🤦🏻♀️
WHAT.?....and WHY?
MalcolmNance Our Secretary of State is no different then Barr or any other trump stooge
this planet is in crisis. trump wanting this done to prevent backlash from his giving drilling rights to company he/his family has connection to.
MalcolmNance Of course
Trump and his enablers are not only a national menace but an international one as well.
I mean what do you expect from an administration of idiots. smh UnAmerican WhiteHouse ClimateChangeIsReal
Wellllll, .....IF.....THE GOVERNMENT would stop geo engineering (chem trails ) THERE WOULD BE NO climate change, Other than GOD CONTROLLED changes.
Just because you take it out don’t make it so.
We need to get him and his entire admin, out of office. Now.
Sorry. It’s Climate Crisis now.
rolandsmartin Don’t like the phrase “climate change?” How about climate catastrophe? Let’s hide grandpa’s heart meds while we’re at it.
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One day MAGAts, &/or their children/grandchildren, will suffer results of Trump's/GOP's deleterious stance on climate change & their elimination of protective regulations. They are shortsighted & uninformed. Their ignorance WILL NOT be bliss.
This 'If I can't have our environment, you can't, either!' approach is idiotic, SecPompeo. Climate change doesn't care about your ideology. You want your base to survive to vote for Trump, don't you?
Russia is getting what it paid for.
Because it’s bullshit!
Mentions of climate change don’t sit well with the Koch brothers.
That would be massively stupid. Get these know-nothings out of government!
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So they’re going to make it politically correct not factually correct because the president doesn’t like it.
Climate change is like the Liberals Russian collision. It's all a hoax so Dems can tax, taxpayers more so Dems can give their special interest groups free money at taxpayers expenses. If you remember climate change is to be global warming. Liberals changed it to CC. All a hoax.
rhonda_harbison Brother, I these idiots make me sick.....
Trump has to go, he has no idea what he's doing, he's literally being harmful to the country he was elected to protect.
The administration’s initial position threatened a standoff in which the U.S. would not sign off on a statement that included climate discussion, and other members of the Arctic Council would not agree to a version that left it out
I don't think the climate crisis will get much action until he's gone and then there will be a massive clean up operation launched to undo the damage he's doing.
Corrupt inept 🤬🇺🇸
Sure, because melting polar ice caps have no bearing whatsoever on Arctic policy.
Post is toast.
Wonderful news. Climate hoax is the largest elite tax grab in the history of humanity.
Can’t we just strip Presidency from his title?
Omg what a scandal!!!
It's their trigger word.
Will there be ice cube throwing at the next committee hearing in protest?
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Well, I mean, of course.
And the Hits keep coming!