The Paris agreement signals that deniers have lost the climate wars | Dana Nuccitelli

195 world nations have agreed to ignore climate science denial and cut carbon pollution as much as possible

In stark contrast to the shortcomings of previous international climate negotiations, the Paris COP21 talks have ended with an agreement stronger than most expected. Graham Readfearn summarized the agreement for The Guardian.

The guts of the agreement hang off the so-called "long-term goal" that commits almost 200 countries to hold the global average temperature to "well below 2C" above pre-industrial levels and to "pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C".

The long-term goal also states that "in accordance with best available science" that "in the second half of this century" the world should get to a point where the net emissions of greenhouse gases should be zero.