A document with a vague sounding name like Paris Agreement being bandied about in the cable news doesn’t garner much attention from the general public, even somebody like me who lives and breathes this stuff about 15 hours every day in one form or another. The “mentions” have become more prominent now as the Agreement has become a source of contention between our outgoing president and the incoming Trump administration. The Paris Agreement has to do with global warming, or climate change as the proponents now choose to call it. The Agreement stems from a meeting in Paris held in December, 2015 at the 21st Conference of the Parties by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries and adopted by consensus on December 15 of that year. It went into effect on November 4 of this year, which explains the more than usual interest in recent weeks. The goal of the Agre