Guest essay by Craig Rucker, CFACT.org

The UN is celebrating at COP 21, but what did they really achieve?

President Obama called the Paris climate agreement the best chance we’ve had to “save” the planet.

Not even close, Mr. President. We’ll put that bit of hyperbole right up there with your election being “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

The good news is that the final agreement is substantially weaker than the drafts that led up to it. French Soclialist Laurent Fabius, who presided over COP 21, must have spent all of Friday night yanking the teeth out of it to come up with a document everyone would sign.

China and India will be pleased that this agreement permits them to go on burning coal and expanding their economies all they want. The President will be pleased that the agreement is weak enough that he can attempt to bypass Senate ratification.

You can read the whole thing at CFACT.org.

Marc Morano asked, “Does this mean we never have to hear about ‘solving’ global warming again!?” Marc’s full commentary was posted to the top of the Drudge Report.

CFACT senior policy advisor Paul Driessen warns that although he believes the final agreement is no more than “mush,” attempting to voluntarily abide by it will cause terrible economic harm and human suffering. You can read his full analysis at CFACT.org.

This agreement will not meaningfully alter the temperature of the Earth, even under the UN’s own computer models.

The bad news is that it plants the seeds of a new UN climate regime that left unchecked will swell into a bureaucratic behemoth.

The good news is that the agreement’s soft commitments, lack of penalties for noncompliance, and long dates buy time for more scientific data to come in.

The more scientific evidence we examine, the weaker the case for economy-wrecking global warming policies becomes.

Science may provide the way out.

If we can keep the data honest.

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