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Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord (reuters.com)
It's official. President Donald Trump announced today that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, following through on a pledge he made during the presidential campaign. Trump said the Paris agreement "front loads costs on American people. In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord but begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris accord or an entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States," the president said. "We are getting out. But we will start to negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that's fair. And if we can, that's great." Trump said that the United States will immediately "cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris accord" and what he said were "draconian financial" and other burdens imposed on the country by the accord.
This means that Elon Musk will leave Trump's Business Advisory Council. On Wednesday, Musk said he did "all he could to advise directly to Trump." (Update: Elon Musk is staying true to his words. Following the announcement, Musk tweeted, "Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.")
Twenty-five companies, including Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Salesforce, Morgan Stanley, Intel signed on to a letter which was published on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal today arguing in favor of climate pact.
Update: Former president Barack Obama said the U.S. "joins a small handful of nations that reject the future."
Also, the New York Times points out that despite Trump's public statements, the U.S. can't officially leave the Paris climate agreement until 2020.
This means that Elon Musk will leave Trump's Business Advisory Council. On Wednesday, Musk said he did "all he could to advise directly to Trump." (Update: Elon Musk is staying true to his words. Following the announcement, Musk tweeted, "Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.")
Twenty-five companies, including Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Salesforce, Morgan Stanley, Intel signed on to a letter which was published on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal today arguing in favor of climate pact.
Update: Former president Barack Obama said the U.S. "joins a small handful of nations that reject the future."
Also, the New York Times points out that despite Trump's public statements, the U.S. can't officially leave the Paris climate agreement until 2020.
The agreement dozen cost a single cent. It's only an agreement of good will, with no consequence for polluting countries.
Millions? That's at least 2500% growth in coal jobs! Don't you think that's a bit optimistic?
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Nice link. The author of the article self-admittedly represents oil and gas companies and his sole link to the "devastating" costs of the agreement is a "report" issued by the Heritage Foundation.
Sigh.
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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1. Trump alienating our allies is headline news lately.
2. If he's not dismantling the "globalist octopus", then what is he dismantling?
3. Google "US Population", about 321.4 million. World population is 7 Billion. So the rest of the world is about 95.4 %, sorry I said 96 %.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Pretty easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states_and_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
America's GDP is just under $18T.
California's GDP is $2.5T. New York's is $1.4T. Let that sink in for a moment: Just these two typically blue states is responsible for 21% of the *ENTIRE* US productivity.
Raising $3B (especially if they secede from the US: they don't need to offset the social security and healthcare of states that don't produce, etc) is pocket change.
You unveil your intense ignorance with each sentence. There are no costs mandated by the Paris Climate Agreement.
Actually, the Paris agreement required developed countries to provide *at least* $100B per year by the year 2020...
Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year , taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries; Recognizes the importance of adequate and predictable financial resources, including for results-based payments, as appropriate, for the implementation of policy
approaches and positive incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks; as well as alternative policy approaches, such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of
forests; while reaffirming the importance of non-carbon benefits associated with such approaches; encouraging the coordination of support from, inter alia, public and private, bilateral and multilateral sources, such as the Green Climate Fund, and alternative sources in accordance with relevant decisions by the Conference of the Parties;
Have you read the agreement?
Do you think the EU-China climate bloc is just going to let the US off the hook for paying for their towards a carbon-less future? The US will pay, and it will pay dearly...
You're funny. You count China as if they are a bastion of green glory. I suspect that you are aware of just how bad their pollution is. Yet somehow you give them a pass. The sooner the US pulls out of various accords and agreements the better. If we were to focus on getting our situation right instead of worrying about everyone else we would be much better off. Somehow I think that when the supercop leaves the world will go back to fighting - and then and only then might they miss the US.
Yeah, because we all know that waiting for perfection is an awesome reason to do nothing.
What a bunch of bollocks.
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Which society are you talking about again?
Maybe there isn't consensus in your little town, but in the global society, there is. The world is bigger than "America" you know.
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When you dont know what you are talking about you make up nonsense.
You do know China has signed into this non binding treaty that they will do absolutely nothing until 2030.
You know India will double its coal production under this agreement?
If you believe in the AGW propaganda or don't, the Paris accord is bad for America.
Oh fuck off. Nuclear is almost the expensive way to produce power there is. What is this obsession with nuclear? It only makes sense when you're prepared for massive amounts of taxpayer subsidy.
THings have gone badly wrong with the managing of the nuclear industry. It's the safest form of power measured in deaths per TWh, but we're stuck with ageing 1970s tech, and building brand new 1970s tech. The mismanagement caused by misplaced fear means we're running the equivalent of nuclear Pintos in 2017.
Safety and density have a lot going for it. It doesn't matter as much for a country like the USA, but for smaller, denser countries, it's the only way to gain energy independence to any degree. Once you get to a country like the UK, renewables aren't going to cut it.
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Fuck globalism. This is just another reclamation of American sovereignty.
You can spout off about globalist vs nationalist policies all you want, but even the hermit nation of North Korea understood this issue was important enough to show solidarity with the rest of the world on. When Kim Jong-un can work with other nations better than your President, that is a problem.
Has nothing to do with that. Kim Jong-un signed it because North Korea would *receive* money, not pay it out. He'd be a fool to turn down free money.
Honestly, whether a nation signs or not has very little to do with recognition of the issue as being important and more to do with where money is going. IIRC, if the US had joined it then like with the UN the US would have been paying out more money than any other country - which makes zero sense for the benefit. UN at least had some controls that gave the US significant power in its operations (Security Council, etc). The Paris Accord does not do that - money comes from rich countries and goes to the corrupt, poor countries and dictators like Kim Jong-un - many of whom will probably turn around and use it for weapons instead of its real purpose, or at least siphon off a lot of it via bribes and do that even if they show a facade of implementing what the money was for - it'll cost a lot more as a result too.
No, this isn't about solidarity. It's about money.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley (source: imdb.com)
China and India are the ONLY ones that matter in terms of global emissions. They still have 2 billion people between them that are dirt-poor and have yet to take part in their national economy in any meaningful way. Right now, with only 1/4 of their populations economically active, they account for over 37% of TOTAL GLOBAL EMISSIONS.
As usual, another trope. These two countries have been outperforming their obligations since signing the agreement.
Context matters, dipshit.
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
You make a lot of assertions without any citations.
The "left" was big on population reduction 40 years ago. You know how Europe collectively did that reduction? Mainly by leftist policies like access to birth control and sex education.
Where is the "right" on this? Yeah, shutting down planned parenthood centers and praising anti-abortion terrorists.
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To be fair to the late Mr Canute, he took his throne and advisors to the sea to show that even he, a King, could not stop the sea by command.
He was iterating the point to his advisors that mortal power had a limit.
New Zealanders are well balanced with a chip on each shoulder. One represents Australia, the other the rest of the world