Obama Pursuing Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty.

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress.

In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the world’s largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. But under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.

To sidestep that requirement, President Obama’s climate negotiators are devising what they call a “politically binding” deal that would “name and shame” countries into cutting their emissions. The deal is likely to face strong objections from Republicans on Capitol Hill and from poor countries around the world, but negotiators say it may be the only realistic path.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/us/politics/obama-pursuing-climate-accord-in-lieu-of-treaty.html

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1. Here's one quick reaction from the far-right:

Obama Set to Prove the Maxim that If You Give Democrats an Inch, They’ll Shred the Constitution

In 1992 President George H. W. Bush signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Senate ratified that treaty as it was written at that time, as the Constitution specifies must happen for any treaty to be valid, and President Bush signed it on October 15, 1992 — just a couple of weeks before he would lose to Bill Clinton (and spoiler Ross Perot).

Decades later, President Barack Obama is seeking to use that treaty as a Trojan Horse to push his extreme environmental agenda onto an unsuspecting, and ailing, US economy, according to the New York Times.

Aware that the Democrats are likely to lose the Senate, Obama will pursue his agenda without the people’s representatives, and will knowingly set up a constitutional controversy, maybe even a crisis, for the sake of “climate change.”

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/08/27/obama-set-to-prove-the-maxim-that-if-you-give-democrats-an-inch-theyll-shred-the-constitution/

From your post:

... to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions ...

This will get the right wing "national sovereignty" lobby very agitated. Just imagine an international organization "compelling" a sovereign nation to do something. Is it any wonder that they fear the United Nations during into a One World Government?