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So you have been following this. in terms of climate change summits, put this in perspective for us. what are they hoping to accomplish? it s unprecedented. you have 196 countries in the world agreeing that global warming is an issue and virtually all of them pledged to cut the pollution that causes global warming. we have a debate about it. the rest of the sworld gathering in paris and saying, okay, it s settled. it is a problem. we re coming the table. what makes it an interesting human drama is president obama is trying to lead on the issue. at the opening ceremonies, given three minutes to speak and he went nine minutes. he is trying to lead. meanwhile, he has delegation of members of congress there talking to his colleagues, to his co-negotiators trying to undermine the deal. they think it s rue nous for the american economy. it s high stakes. the idea is to walk away with a pledge, right? some kind of agreement on how to lower carbon emissions? ....