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The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com)
Justin Gillis, and Nadja Popovich, writing for The New York Times: The United States, with its love of big cars, big houses and blasting air-conditioners, has contributed more than any other country to the atmospheric carbon dioxide that is scorching the planet. "In cumulative terms, we certainly own this problem more than anybody else does," said David G. Victor, a longtime scholar of climate politics at the University of California, San Diego. Many argue that this obligates the United States to take ambitious action to slow global warming. Against that backdrop, factions in the Trump administration are engaged in a heated debate over whether to remain a party to the 195-nation agreement on climate change reached in Paris in 2015. President Trump promised on Wednesday to announce his decision at 3 p.m Thursday in the White House Rose Garden. A decision to walk away from the accord would be a momentous setback, in practical and political terms, for the effort to address climate change. Several news outlets, citing people in the administration, reported on Wednesday that the US is likely to pull out of the agreement.
And the first country to have a jackoff in the White House who turned the EPA into the enforcement arm of the fossil fuel industry and prohibit it from performing its core function.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I hope he pulls out. It will be a GOOD THING to have denialism firmly endorsed by a man that most of the world (and much of America) views as an idiot. This will give political cover to other leaders around the world to take stronger action on climate change.
In practical terms, the agreement means almost nothing, since it requires almost no actions, and has no penalties for violations.
The solutions to global warming will come from us nerds (scientists and engineers) not politicians. We need better solar panels, better wind turbines, geothermal, carbon sequestration, etc.