The Patriot Post® · The U.S.-China Climate Accord Is Futile

David Harsanyi: “At a Beijing news conference, President Barack Obama called a new China-United States climate deal a ‘historic agreement.’ … [T]here are two problems with treating the deal as big news. 1) We’re not really doing anything we weren’t going to do anyway. 2) Neither is China. … The New York Times (which says the deal allowed Obama ‘to reclaim some of the momentum he lost at home’) and others treat the deal as a big political victory for the president. Despite voters’ tendency to tell pollsters climate change concerns them, the fact is that not a single midterm race was primarily focused on climate change. Not a single candidate, denier or not, lost an election because of his or her position on climate change. Can Democrats say the same about issues such as coal production and the Keystone XL pipeline?”