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Obama Administration Abandons Two-Degree Commitment Made In 2010
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Obama Administration Abandons Two-Degree Commitment Made In 2010 | ThinkProgressAs climate change accelerates, it appears the Obama administration is in retreat. In an address on Thursday, the top climate negotiator for the United States rejected the administrations formal commitment to keeping global warming less than two degrees Celsius (3.6°F) above pre-industrial levels.
This about-face from agreements endorsed by President Barack Obama in 2009 and 2010 indicates a rejection of the United Nations climate negotiations process, as well as an implicit assertion that catastrophic global warming is now politically impossible to prevent.
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