George Will : The Paris agreement is another false ‘turning point’ on the climate

George Will reports:

the 21st U.N. climate change conference since 1995, each heralded as a “turning point.” The climate conference, like God in Genesis, looked upon its work and found it very good. It did so in spite of, or perhaps because of, this fact: Any agreement about anything involving nearly 200 nations will necessarily be primarily aspirational, exhorting voluntary compliance with inconsequential expectations — to “report” on this and “monitor” that. A single word change that brought the agreement to fruition: I t replaced a command (nations “shall” do such and such ) with an entreaty (nations “should” do such and such ).

Secretary of State John F. Kerry knew that any agreement requiring U.S. expenditures and restrictions on wealth creation would founder on the reef of representative government.

Watermelon update: the greens that are red on the inside.