Climate deal: Barack Obama agrees with China to weaken the US China gets a good deal: permission to keep raising emissions for 16 years while the US - its great strategic rival - promises to make its electricity even dearer quicker: Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Obama struck a deal Wednesday to limit greenhouse gases, with China committing for the first time to cap carbon emissions and Obama unveiling a plan for deeper U.S. emissions reductions through 2025. China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, pledged in the far-reaching agreement to cap its rapidly growing carbon emissions by 2030, or earlier if possible. It also set a daunting goal of increasing the share of non-fossil fuels to 20 percent of the country's energy mix by 2030. Obama announced a target to cut U.S. emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, the first time the president has set a goal beyond the existing 17 percent target by 2020. Meanwhile in the US: St. Cloud, Minn., got 13.2 inches of snow Monday, breaking the all-time November calendar-day record of 12 inches set on Nov. 21, 1898. Does the Labor/Greens response mean a Labor/Greens Government, if elected in 2016, will give us the carbon tax again? [Opposition leader Bill] Shorten said on Wednesday the "historic and ambitious" agreement showed global leadership from the US and China. At the G20 this week, Australia will hold the embarrassing title of being the only nation going backwards on climate change... And Greens leader Christine Milne said the deal should be a "massive wake-up call to Tony Abbott. His continued climate denial and his destruction of the environment is reckless. Senator Milne lashed Mr Abbott for unwinding climate policies such as the carbon tax ...