The day after the conclusion of the United States Presidential (And Other) Elections November 3, 2020 was ironically the day that the United States formally withdrew from the International Paris Climate Treaty. Reducing the production of greenhouse gases that are causing the increase of global warming was first proposed by President Obama in 2015. 200 countries, backed by the vast majority of the world’s climate scientists, agreed to reduce the production of so-called “greenhouse” gasses with a goal of slowing down the warming of the earth’s climate and slowing down the melting of the polar ice caps, causing sea levels to rise which are expected to cause world wide damage and many other unpleasant and unhealthy consequences. But the politicians who have been financed by the fossil fuel industry in alliance with other special interests tried to stop the Paris Climate Agreement from being implemented when President Trump announced that the US was withdrawing from the treaty due to the “fake” ideas of climate change and global warming. Amazingly, no other country agreed with President Trump’s plan and as a matter of fact such major polluters as the People’s Republic of China realized that they must make even more efforts than they first thought to reduce carbon emissions as soon as possible. For more information on this topic there is an NPR audio podcast on the topic at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/short-wave/id1482575855?i=1000497452785. There is also a longer article https://www.nrdc.org/stories/Paris-climate-agreement-everything-you-need-know. The good news is that the newly elected US President Joseph Biden has pledged to re-enter the Paris Climate Agreement on his first day in office! Elections have consequences! So keep tuned about this topic—we will be following it closely.