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Budi

(15,325 posts)
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 01:56 PM Nov 2021

The Weather Channel is running some great COP26 Climate clips. Biden, Kerry, & more

They aired: Biden's speech earlier & many informative interviews.
John Kerry is always a solid speaker on Climate matters. Like Al Gore, they have been sounding the alarm on Global Climate for decades.

President Biden's speech at COP26:



John Kerry interview on Climate:
2 weeks ago


VP Al Gore on climate July 14, 1998
https://www.science.org/content/article/gore-rips-congress-over-climate-change
Gore Rips Congress Over Climate Change
14 JUL 1998

WASHINGTON, D.C.--A riled-up Vice President Al Gore sharply criticized Congress's stance on the global warming issue today, protesting at a press conference what he called a "gag order" on the Administration's efforts to inform the public about the Kyoto climate treaty.

Flanked by climate scientists and charts chronicling this year's unusually hot temperatures, Gore blasted a House of Representatives panel *for instructions to the Administration to stop talking about the Kyoto treaty*, which calls for 38 industrialized nations, including the United States, to cut their greenhouse gas emissions early next century.
MORE..
An excellent read on the long tireless fight for Climate by Al Gore


🌐 WHAT IS COP?

"COP is not a policeman.
It is the shorthand for Conference of the Parties, and that's the name of the United Nations global climate summit".


Also interviewed Mark Hertsgaard, exec correspondent covering COP26
His Twitter for more of his reporting:
https://mobile.twitter.com/markhertsgaard


The Weather Channel
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/climate-change/news/2021-11-01-cop26-climate-summit-commences-in-glasgow

Twitter:
https://mobile.twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/1454904256520245254

"COP26 goes back to the 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil, where all the Nations of the world, including the United States, signed a treaty that established the United Nations climate infrastructure"
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