The NY Times thinks this is a big deal
The World Met to Talk Climate Change. The U.S. Wasn’t Invited.
For the past week, diplomats from nearly 60 countries gathered in Colombia to discuss one of the most urgent and confounding questions of our day: how to move beyond fossil fuels.
60 countries is the world? Did they all take sailing ships or fossil fueled private jets?
The issue is urgent because emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas are rapidly warming the planet, leading to increasingly dire consequences.
By rapidly, they mean 1.7F since 1850
And it’s confounding because fossil fuels are the backbone of the modern economy, and alternatives don’t yet exist at nearly the scale needed. (Another factor: The U.S. was not invited, given the Trump administration’s refusal to engage with international climate talks, and several other big countries are not attending.)
Wait, how’d that get in there? Not the part about the US not being invited, because the Trump admin wouldn’t have bothered, but, the part about
And it’s confounding because fossil fuels are the backbone of the modern economy, and alternatives don’t yet exist at nearly the scale needed.
Huh. I wouldn’t be surprised if the NY Times edited this article and removes that.
