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Climate accord promised and almost three years later those at the cop 24 climate change conference are still raising red flags about climate change. our nick payton walsh has this look for you. reporter: december 2015, the paris climate agreement gave those sounding alarm bells about the future a renewed hope for the planet. nearly 200 countries pledging to do their part to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels, with hopes of capping that number at 1.5. this agreement represents the best chance we ve had to save the one planet that we ve got. reporter: the call to action, say most experts, not a moment too soon. hurricane ands typhoons are growing in strength and frequency, leaving paths of intense devastation in their wake. two blazing hotter and scorching the earth more often with more ....
So we went down totally out of control. and of course, we crashed into barbara bush, who broke her leg after that. so that s why he sent me this picture. so we had a really great time up there at camp david. and like i said, it was a great learning experience, hanging out around him. he was kind of like a mentor. and kind of like a father figure at the same time. that s wonderful. you saw a side of him that a lot of people didn t see. that athletic side. you said earlier this week that you love to hear president bush surprise people with his wild side, mentioning his skydiving just a few years ago. what might surprise people about george h.w. bush the man? i think, first of all, what would surprise people is that not many people talk about is that he was a great environmentalist. i mean, if you think about it, i m going right now, i m in europe because i m going up to cop-24, which is in poland, and it was created under bush. ....
He negotiated with the u.n., with the fcc in 1992 that happened. so since then, cop-21, cop-22, cop-23, cop-24, and they have been able to accomplish really great things to make people make a commitment to reducing the greenhouse gases all over the world, and he s also one that inspired me when i was governor of california. i was very adamant and very strong with trying to make a commitment reducing our greenhouse gases by 25% by the year 2020 in california. it all came from him. people don t know that he was so into the environment. he also negotiated, as you remember, the acid rain. as a matter of fact, the first kind of cap and trade system that really worked well, and we got rid of the acid rain. this was, again, in the late 80s, early 90s. so he was really a great leader in this area and always talked about that. that s one side i think that people don t know about him. ....