The Paris Climate Agreement was historic. Historic! We were all told that. It was a Big Deal. Very few nations are actually succeeding in upholding their pledges, but, it was still Historic! It just wasn’t worth bothering submitting to the U.S. Legislative branch. But, rather than just wiping away America’s Barack Obama’s commitment to it with the stroke of a pen, Donald Trump has followed the layout of the deal, and this formally began Monday, which has made most media outlets crazy
Trump begins year-long process to formally exit Paris climate agreement
Donald Trump is moving to formally exit the Paris climate agreement, making the United States the only country in the world that will not participate in the pact, as global temperatures are set to rise 3C and worsening extreme weather will drive millions into poverty.
Nothing in there having anything to do with scaremongering, right?
The paperwork sent by the US government to withdraw begins a one-year process for exiting the deal agreed to at the UN climate change conference in Paris in 2015. The Trump administration will not be able to finalize its exit until a day after the presidential election in November 2020.
The French presidential office said Emmanuel Macron and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping would sign a pact in Beijing on Wednesday that makes reference to the “irreversibility†of the Paris climate accord.
The Élysée palace official expressed disappointment at Trump’s move, saying: “We regret this and this only makes the Franco-Chinese partnership on the climate and biodiversity more necessary.â€
The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, announced the development on Monday afternoon, saying the agreement would be an “unfair economic burden imposed on American workers, businesses and taxpayers†and that the US has already reduced its heat-trapping emissions.
It’s just like the Kyoto Protocol, which President Bill Clinton refused to sign after the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 against it, as it was bad for the US economy. Why would we intentionally cause problems with our economy for something that wasn’t submitted for ratification and allows nations like China to continue their “polluting” ways?
The former vice-president and climate campaigner Al Gore said in a statement posted on Twitter: “No one person or party can stop our momentum to solve the climate crisis. But those who try will be remembered for their complacency, complicity, and mendacity in attempting to sacrifice the planet for their greed.â€
Would this be the same guy with a giant carbon footprint who takes private jets around the world?
The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, called Trump’s move a “disastrous decision that sells out our children’s futureâ€.
Socialism would solve this, along with destroying our economy, right?
In addition, the Trump administration has also pulled US funding commitments to help the developing world cut pollution.
John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, president Barack Obama’s secretaries of state and defense respectively, in a Washington Post op-ed, called it a “dark day for Americaâ€.
And that’s what really upsets the Warmists, that the U.S. will not be giving aid money in perpetuity with no strings attached. Paris removed strings and makes giving the money an obligation where we, and the other 1st World nations, the bad guys paying a debt.
At the end of the day, though, this is a minor story, which will mostly disappear, because most U.S. citizens do not care about ‘climate change’ in practice. Most refuse to pay even $10 a month to “solve” it.
