Band Members of 98 Degrees Irate Over Climate Change Agreement

Members of American band 98 Degrees took to Twitter Saturday
 to voice their displeasure over the Paris agreement.

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After nearly four years of negotiations, nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, imploring the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution.

Under the deal, countries will have to publish greenhouse gas reduction targets and revise them upward every five years, while striving to drive down their carbon output "as soon as possible."

The final text of the agreement commits countries to keeping global warming "to well below 2 degrees C" and hopes to limit it to 1.5 C, with the goal of a carbon-neutral world sometime after 2050. 

However, not everyone is happy with the historic Paris agreement. Shortly after being announced by French Foreign Minister and president of the COP21 Laurent Fabius, members of the popular American band 98 Degrees began tweeting their displeasure, as the legally binding document calls for the "immediate disposal of all released albums as well as future appearances of the environmentally harmful band 98 Degrees. In this new age when we are committing to limiting global warming to less than two degrees, the band's continued existence flies in the face of this."

The band formed in 1995 and consists of brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons, and Justin Jeffre. They quickly garnered a large fan base among teenage girls and grown men of various sexual persuasions. 

"I don't give a f*** what the entire world says. We're here, we're hot, we're not going anywhere, " tweeted Nick Lachey. "We have no plans to change our name to 1.5 Degrees, despite all the rumors. Just not the same ring to it," said Timmons. 

From Our Paris Bureau