PRESIDENT OBAMA PUBLICLY DECLARES THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS OF HIS PRESIDENCY A FAILURE:

● COP21: Obama on risk of ‘submerged countries, abandoned cities.’
—Headline, the BBC, today.

● “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
—Then-Sen. Obama, as transcribed on 11/05/2008 in “Obama’s Nomination Victory Speech In St. Paul” at the Huffington Post.

Related: “The Paris Climate Talks Will Emit 300,000 Tons of CO₂, by Our Math. Hope It’s Worth It,”

—Wired magazine, broadcasting from Condé Nast’s giant air-conditioned server farm, which apparently they haven’t yet voluntarily shuttered as an example for the rest of us as to how serious this all is.