Seriously, how could we actually be in it when it was set up to avoid the required vote by the US Senate on treaties, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2?
America Officially Leaves the Paris Climate Agreement. For the Second Time.
As of Tuesday, the United States is no longer a party to the Paris agreement on climate change, becoming the only country in the world to abandon the international commitment to slow global warming.
The formal departure from the climate accord comes one year after President Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawal. Earlier this month Mr. Trump said the United States would also leave the United Nations treaty that underlies the Paris agreement, which was unanimously ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1992 and signed by President George H.W. Bush.
The dual moves by Mr. Trump underline America’s isolation in the effort to control emissions of greenhouse gases, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels, that are dangerously heating the planet.
I had to look to see if this was in the news section or opinion, but, it’s in the climate section, so, cult opinion.
The United States is currently the planet’s second largest climate polluter after China. It is also the largest historic emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, which is notable because emissions linger in the atmosphere for decades or even centuries, trapping heat and contributing to sea level rise, heat waves and intensifying extreme weather like floods, wildfires and droughts.
CO2 is not a pollutant, so, yeah, this is cult propaganda.
Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union climate commissioner, said abandoning the Paris agreement is a “clear absence of leadership” that will have “significant negative impacts” on America’s reputation.
Seriously, no one really cares, except all the 3rd world shitholes and island nations which like the zero strings attached scam money to flow in.
“What others will say is, ‘How on Earth is it possible that a country with this might, with this deep a purse, and with this direct responsibility for the planet heating up, basically checks out’?” Mr. Hoekstra said.
See? It’s the money. If these big wigs really cared then they’d make sure they had a zero carbon footprint in their own lives, and that their countries were actually moving towards the “1.5C” goal, when, in fact, most are missing it.
Jennifer Morgan, a senior fellow at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and Germany’s former climate envoy, said she believes other countries will continue to transition to clean energy. But she said, “It will really require leadership from the European Union and other countries to be a heavyweight against the Trump administration’s efforts to roll things back.”
Good. Let’s see how much further their economies and societies collapse. Every experiment needs an experimental group.
I see only 2 reasons Trump would consider Greenland important
#1 Greenland has rare Earth metals needed to build wind turbines and EVs
$2 Greenland has an age of consent of 15 years
Which do you think Trump considers primary in importance?