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John, thank you for your reporting there. this has been described as a sweeping agreement. for an environmental law professor that we spoke to earlier, this is very sobering. here's what patrick parenteau had to say. >> this is more of a political agreement than legal document, frankly. it's important, certainly for the nations to commit to what they've committed to and to commit to ratcheting up the pledges that have been made. but the time frame is very short. the amount of carbon that we're putting into the atmosphere every year on order of 36 billion tons is still going into the atmosphe...

Yes. we're going to be hearing and talking than two degrees and all the ramifications for some time now, derek. >> that's right. leading up to paris in early december. in fact this week's viewer question comes to us from a viewer in chicago. have a listen. >> hi. my name is satya, and i am from chicago, illinois. my question is climate change associated with the natural disasters we have been currently experiencing? >> all right. this is about the second most popular question that i receive as a cnn meteorologist behind will it rain on my wedding day or will it rain on my son's birthday party....