Rising global temperatures may have
already molten frozen soil and caused methane gas to erupt from underground. More
giant craters have appeared in Siberian permafrost in Russia – a country that
believes it would
somewhat benefit from climate change! More climate unknown unknowns like this
would become known and fearful even before our state leaders make meaningful
pledges. On 12 November 2014, at the APEC Summit, many hailed the US-China
climate agreement as something “highly significant” and “adding impetus” into
the Paris negotiations later this year, but will it be the case? The US-China emissions-cutting
pledges have not changed much my views on the likely COP21 outcome when I was
commenting the EU’s
2030 package last year. It is because neither
the US’ nor China’s
pledges are ambitious enough while India refuses to follow their lead, worse
still, these so
called “pledges” are
not always the same thing by its name.
