It was Tuesday evening in the United States when President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced their nations had come to a historic agreement on climate change that supposedly represented a “breakthrough.” The United States pledged to reduce its carbon emissions to 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. The Chinese pledged that they would stop their own emissions from increasing after they peak in 2030.

Obama’s backers crowed, finally having gotten some good news this month. It was a huge development, right?

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