U.N. says record 155 countries to sign climate agreement

A good first step. Now comes the devil in the details of implementing the agreement,

And, btw, guess how much has been spent in the US denying climate change...

"The first peer-reviewed academic study on the topic added further detail. Robert Brulle, a Drexel University professor of sociology and environmental science, discovered that between 2003 and 2010 over half a billion dollars was spent on what he described as a massive “campaign to manipulate and mislead the public about the threat posed by climate change.”

-- http://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/time-to-wake-up-dark-money-and-climate-denial

It's cheap to sign up to a non-legally binding treaty so expect the record to be broken. Even the current record-holder and a supposedly legal one like the Law of the Sea has China as a signatory.

The law of the seas has been signed by JP and CN in the same month in 1996, while the US is still not on board.

It's no wonder why everyone dislikes the United States

"tackle climate change"

Trying to stop / reverse climate change? Is Mother Nature on board here?

"the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming: China, United States, Japan, India, Brazil, Australia and many European Union countries including Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Spain."

And up until 150 years ago, when there was virtually no man-made gas emissions, there was no climate change?

And up until 150 years ago, when there was virtually no man-made gas emissions, there was no climate change?

There has never been climate change at the rate that we have now. Never.

"There has never been climate change at the rate that we have now. Never."

How do you know that?

You know, that whole scientific method and peer reviewed science and all that.

I think in the bubble they call them 'myths'.

Stranger, the Earth is like billions of years old, man has only been around for the last few thousand years.

Stranger, the Earth is like billions of years old, man has only been around for the last few thousand years.

Which is exactly what gives us a comparison to see how the rate of climate change is different between the time before humans were around, and the past 100 years or so.

Or are you trying to say that humans cannot know anything that happened before humanity was around? Do you not believe in dinosaurs then? Maybe you think the world is only a few thousand years old and only appeared when humans did?

man has only been around for the last few thousand years.

More like 50,000 to 100,000 years, but why quibble?