China-US climate deal a gamechanger we must follow. The sound bites make me proud to vote Green

I've caught a few tweets and the ABC coverage of this one and it really looks like the big emitters are finally listening to Christine. What a deal - historic - amazing!

My Greens twitter feed melted down. My Green friends were in tears. A celebration was in order for such an historic event. We popped a few bottles of very expensive red wine at a very nice inner suburban restaurant over a great meal of sustainably caught quinoa, eco friendly barramundi and organic ice cream sourced from free range King Island cows.

 

Christine, Scott and Naomi Klein gave us the policy detail over Twitter, the ABC gave us the headlines.

Naomi Klein told it how it was.

"Most significantly, commitments made by China under the deal take away what has historically been the most effective argument in defense of climate negligence in the US: “Why should we stop polluting if China won’t?”

Christine gave more even detail in this statement. Congratulations China and the US!

As reported in Bloomberg, China has really stuck its neck out and made huge commitments?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-12/u-s-china-agree-to-new-cuts-to-combat-climate-change.html

Here's how the NY Times reported it:

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/world/asia/climate-change-china-xi-jinping-obama-apec.html?_r=0

So all in all a great result for the World, Christine and Naomi.
 

The world's largest carbon emitter China, has promised to do nothing to curb its emissions until 2030 (when they are forecast to peak anyway) and will invest heavily in Nuclear power and Hydro electricity, building new Dams!
 

A great result for the Greens of the world and worth a celebration!