“…Only 37 of 194 nations signed the treaty that replaces the Kyoto Protocol, which expires December 31. That means the new agreement is legally non-binding…”
“…when the Atlantic hurricane season starts next June 1, it will have been 2,777 days since the last time a category 3, 4, or 5 hurricane made landfall along the U.S. coast — the longest such period since 1900. 2012 also marked the quietest U.S. tornado season on record; only twelve tornadoes touched down in the United States in July 2012, shattering the July 1960 record low of 42….”
I’ve read elsewhere that because the UN politicos couldn’t get the new treaty passed, they then voted to extend Kyoto thru 2020.
That would be a typical diplomat maneuver. Allows them to say this conference at Doha affirmed the importance of the Kyoto Treaty. The fact that the conference objective was to proclaim a new treaty going beyond Kyoto, well that doesn’t have to be in the diplomatic cable.