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61 Mayors Commit To Adopt, Honor and Uphold Paris Climate Accord After US Pulls Out (curbed.com)
After President Trump announced his intent to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, 61 mayors across the country have pledged to adopt the historic agreement themselves. The group of mayors, who represent 36 million Americans and some of the largest U.S. cities, outlined a plan to align with the other 194 nations that adopted the accord. From a statement provided by the climate mayors: We will continue to lead. We are increasing investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. We will buy and create more demand for electric cars and trucks. We will increase our efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, create a clean energy economy, and stand for environmental justice. And if the President wants to break the promises made to our allies enshrined in the historic Paris Agreement, we'll build and strengthen relationships around the world to protect the planet from devastating climate risks. The world cannot wait -- and neither will we.
want to fight about it in the Supreme Court?
I'm in Alabama and we follow the RULE OF LAW.
Now how are you guys going to go about that money transfers that the former persident agreed to? $100B a year, if I remember correctly. The world is waiting.
I can assure you, the best way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.
I have seen this more and more since Trump took office. Trump dismantles EPA's public protections. Local governments agree to pick up the slack. If this is going to be Trump's trend, then why should we be paying as much FEDERAL tax, when it's the STATE or CITY that is giving us all these services.
Another reason to leave (D) run cities.
Here is the real story and the eventual history that will be Trump's: Destruction of the US global power and influence, and fanning the flames of the sub-national groups that will replace nations as a whole. The fall of the US leadership will coincide with the fall of the US as a functioning nation, but rather than subsuming into a failed state like Somalia and Yemen, its best cities will rise into global roles. Consider this Greek history in reverse, with city-states becoming the real holders of power.
Or we'd hold a special election and remove his 4ss from office if he'd do something against the people like that.
THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP for giving the USA a fair shot at being exceptional again!!
Look how he unites the American people.
What a hero.
Major cities need electoral votes. Fuck rural assholes who fuck shit up. Fuck subsidizing their tiny ignorant towns with my money. Ide rather give welfare to a black crackhead downtown than a racist methhead in bumfuckistan. Signed, white guy born in Green Bay.
but we're going to figure-out a way to pay the billions the accord requires? Or, do something about China that already produces twice the CO2 as the US and Europe combined, but isn't bound by limits in the accord until 2030? Sad waste of effort.
The Left world-wide are calling Trump a "murderer" over this. Even ACLU chimed in with a bizarre accusation, that the decision is somehow racist...
The melt-down of these guys continues to be as entertaining as it was on November 9th last year...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Trump doesn't care and neither do Ryan nor McConnell. We own the issue on the local level. Let's get to work crafting the laws and negotiating with other countries.
Well, time to vote them out then!
Hahahahahahaha!
These liberals are out to get us and they won't stop until we are on the cross.
Can I get an AMEN brothers!
A mayor has no more power to enforce emissions than does the average citizen... about the most they can do is refuse to give out permits to companies which want to open new factories or the likes... and they'll just go someplace else.
.....these mayors rule, they too will be without a job. The Paris accord is a farce for a global agenda and would end our sovereignty. This accord would do little to help the climate. Good that President Trump nixed this farce. :)
is like calling the people running Dice Holdings, mediocrities.
That's accurate, but somehow it doesn't seem sufficiently emphatic to describe the situation.
Congress never ratified the Paris Agreement. In fact, Obama never sent it to Congress for ratification. there is nothing to "withdraw" from...we were never in it.
These 61 mayors all look like fools. Let's laugh at them.
And if the President wants to break the promises made to our allies enshrined in the historic Paris Agreement
Trump never made the promises, and Obama didn't have the authority to make them on behalf of everyone all on his own.
Folks keep overlooking the fact that the Paris accord was never ratified as a treaty. There was a handshake between the executive branch and other countries that they would follow the accord. The reality is that the US was never legally committed to the agreement as the Senate never ratified the accord.
I would bet the state with the most cities on the list is Commifornia.
Now how are you guys going to go about that money transfers that the former persident agreed to? $100B a year, if I remember correctly. The world is waiting.
Some questions:
That last one - making an end run around the democratic process, taking away the peoples' voice - seems especially troubling.
Go check again, the Federal government actually has minimal oversight over schools, healthcare or welfare.
So you're saying that:
"No child left behind" is optional,
"Common core" is just a recommendation,
I don't have to have health insurance if I don't want it, and
the government doesn't set my SSA retirement benefits?
Is that what you're saying?
All the hard-core liberal mayors are into this alternative Federal policy stuff, where the Feds do (or don't do) X and the mayors and city councils decide to do contrary policy Y. I think the whole sanctuary city movement started a lot of it and Trump's election has certainly accelerated it.
Some of the time it's sensible, regional policy making the Feds shouldn't have been doing anyway or that cities or states should be doing.
But an awful lot of it seems like empty grandstanding on areas like diplomacy, foreign relations (including immigration) and economic policies that are just way out of scale, especially for a municipal government. I remember in the 1980s when cities would declare themselves a nuclear free zone, as if deciding to be a nuclear power was a municipal public safety question or maybe that they had local autonomy from the military.
It's mostly preposterous and the economic stuff especially seems like it is toothless if you can cross into a suburb and avoid the requirements. California and maybe Texas have the unique combinations of geography and size to dictate some of these things and make it work, Minneapolis, not so much.
I want streets without holes, garbage pickup, potable water and public safety. Master those, and maybe I'll be receptive to more grandiose policy ambitions. But usually the more grandiose the policy, the more likely they're failing at the basic tasks.
...that these virtue-signaling-MORONIC mayors are giving away. They can send all of their money to China and India to help them pollute the planet even faster. They better not touch my tax-money. The deal Obama fucked us all over with would have transferred our money to China, India, and others while crippling our economy. So FUCK him for that stupid deal. I regret voting for his globalist-appeasement-ass. He was nothing more than a sock-puppet for the unelected-EU-fascists. I'm so glad Trump got elected instead of that criminal-globalist-CUNT and killed this deal. At least he can renegotiate it so that it doesn't fuck the US in the long run.
-A Concerned Ethinic-Non-binary-Individual ( so what I say matters more for anyone that stupidly practice being a SJW. )
So, what else is new, things change period. There is not a zero % chance that human influenced global warming is good thing... hot weather and rising oceans are more survivable than 2 miles of ice over your head. On the other hand, if technological humans can survive the next ice age, the reduction in population might be a good thing.
Of course a reduction in population due to it being too hot could be good in the long run too.
To hedge your bets, make sure the data-center that hosts your singularity server is not too far north, not too close to sea-level, and not too close to large masses of people likely to loot in times of crisis.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
...solve potholed roads, uncollected garbage, blown budgets and local crime before they progress to saving the world?
I'm sure they're all super-heroes and all, but their constituencies didn't elect them for their climate change policies.
Man, you need to update yourâ talking points, NCLB was repealed and replaced in 2015. And Commonâ Core is an initiative by state governments, so it shows the lack of Federal involvement. And ESSA, actually does forbid the Department of Education from considering adoption of Common Core, so yeah, minimal oversight.
Same go
With Jefferson "Ban the Demon Weed" in the AG's chair, all the fauxbitarians knuckled under, and joined with their paleo brethren in supporting the return of law and order run by a white man as God Intended.
Seriously, blaming Democrats for your vote to confirm a guy you claim you didn't want in office? No, Rand, you were always going to vote for Sessions, because you were never going to choose otherwise, and you need to be responsible for your own decisions.
He won't be. Fauxbitarians never take responsibility for their own decisions. Couldn't even man up to admit that Elizabeth Warren was knowingly and deliberately attacking the Represensible Senator from Alabama on his motives and character, that that was the whole point. Oh, but lil'Rand didn't think it was true, so nope, no reading something already part of the Senate Record for her.
And that's why it'll now become even more strongly a left-wing issue. Ol'Jeff can't wait to start be "Mr. Tough on Crime" and you can be sure the fauxbitarians will deny seeing a thing. They've been playing blind, deaf, and mute for the past few months already.
Another three years, and the roosters will come home, the bed will be lied in, and the whirlwind will be sowed.
Treaties require Senate ratification.
Despit all of this covfefe.
The agreement is just a cash grab for the Third World, as it does not obligate them to do anything but receive from developed nations.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
No funny comments, except maybe a couple of the ones modded insightful. Not even a joke about destroying the planet as a possibly impeachable offense.
Winners: Russia, Saudi Arabia, and China. Losers: Rest of the world unless China saves the day.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Sixty-one mayors who need to be challenged in their next election and removed from office.
Sixty-one mayors whose cities will be left behind when the growing economy passes them by.
Sixty-one mayors who probably never read the Paris Accords and don't understand what would happen to the US.
Sixty-one anti-American idiots. Green Day ought to write about them.
Make the responsibility local and hence much more accountable.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
Where are they going to find the billions of dollars to pay to foreign governments, and will their constituents be ok with that?
After all, I'm not worrying about the agreements mandates on limiting emissions, since the US didn't join the Kyoto protocols, yet is still meeting the standards due to the switch from coal to natural gas for a large amount of power generation, in addition to adding wind and solar generation too.
Soooo, the only thing these Mayors really have to do is come up with case to hand to tin pot dictators in the third world so they can feel better about themselves....
so there's a president that presides over nothing I guess. What's the point?! Too many chiefs? Not enough indians? Pick a leader to lead, and fire the leader that doesn't. This is just stupid.
Seattle is already over it's annual carbon limit with the fire started by the hobos under the West Seattle freeway bridge.
Have gnu, will travel.
Yes, those mayors get to expand their local governments and enrich plenty of cronies.
Everyone knows that enriching cronies saves the world! It is the only solution!
Oh, and Mr. And Ms Homeowner, pay up in more taxes, those cronies won't fund themselves.
so how are these cities going to still "stay in" the Paris Treaty? Are they going to cut checks for billions to third world countries? Because there were no emissions targets in Paris - it was all about redistribution of wealth.
The Paris Agreement provided for more than voluntary reductions, but also for developed nations to send $100 billion in aid to developing nations for climate change mitigation--mitigation which is measured against self-established goals. Part of the agreement also provides for additional funds to be sent to address "loss and damage" suffered by various island states and developing nations for environmental damage caused by global warming.
Is it the intent of these mayors to spend city funds on helping foreign nations negatively impacted by global warming to help address the damage there?
...but abandoning the Paris accord doesn't prohibit any US individual, company, or state from pursuing greener policies. Not one.
The US federal government doesn't control its citizens behavior, to a large degree. In fact, what it does often is a negative driver of public action.
After all, the US is "officially" metric as well since the 1970s, see how much that official change made a difference?
-Styopa
I checked which cities are part of this.
The first thing these cities need to understand is that they are committing to distributing a MINIMUM of $100 billion dollars EVERY year to countries like North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, etc. Many of those cities do not even have a $100 billion budget, so I am wondering where they will get the money from. You could rob Bill Gates and pay for part of one year, but there is no sunset clause and there are only so many Bill Gates' that you can steal from.
Do not get me wrong, I am 100% for everyone at all levels to reduce or eliminate pollution. The Paris deal was not really going to make that happen as there were not comprehensive controls placed on how the receiving countries would spend the money. It will be like lottery proceeds going to schools. Sure, the schools are getting money from the lottery, but then, the money that was budgeted for the schools now goes somewhere else so there is not even a net win there.
I am weary of the insanity here folks. Most of you are not acting in good faith which really will cause pollution to get worse. If you are truly worried about climate change, start acting in good faith!
"Someone needs to talk to the tree of liberty about its ghoulish drinking problem." by ohnocitizen
Will these 61 Mayors be sending any money to third world countries out of their city budgets or **gasp** out of their own pockets? Or by 'support' did you only mean moral support not actual financial support?
You think any large business will put up with that? Oh, what will happen, is the government will "make allowances" (subsidies) to keep the businesses from relocating, and the burden will shift to the taxpayers of each city/state.
Spot the irony in the strawman above.
If climate change lacks intelligent, rational debate, is that because of the scientists and their evidence, or the deniers and their partisan hysteria?
On the flip side, conservatives need to understand economics better. There's little incentive to go green without more government intervention. Green policies have effects which are (a) global and (b) long term. Anything else which benefits local (self) or short term, is incredibly favorable from a business standpoint, and will be quite hard to resist. The solution is to sit down and all agree to do something -- no cheaters or free riders. Which we kind of just tried...
"... Trump's history spanning decades of idiocy, incompetence, narcissism, and sociopathic tendencies..."
Don't you just hate it when people are overly positive about Trump? What about the other faults? Don't forget his lying, ignorance, and inability to communicate well.
Obama acted like a child king and just thought he could sign up the US for a treaty without getting a sign off from the Senate.
Basically Obama was trying to use an international treaty to write law in the US without consulting Congress at all. For some reason Obama and his legal scholars thought they could sign up the US for treaties as long as they didn't call it a "treaty" they didn't need to have the Senate's approval.
Many on the right including me are only objection to the Paris accords was that Obama was trying to skirt the Constitution and use a not-a-treaty-but-really-a-treaty to allow the executive branch to enforce it , all the while skipping past congress.
Glad it is gone.
During the Obama years, there were Republican-run cities and states that tried to enforce ACTUAL FEDERAL LAWS in trade and immigration - and progressives cheered as Obama took them into court and set all sorts of legal precedents that cities and states could not be inconflict with the whims of a sitting president on international matters.
Guess what?
Those precedents are in place now. Should Trump decide to slap them down, he is free to do it. These cities and states have no right to make their own international agreements, and to the extent they try to implement them in ways that conflict with neighboring states these become violations of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitiution. To the extent they get away with this crap, these local politicians are doing so at the mercy of the Trumpster.
Suck on it progressives: You were warned back when you were cheering as Obama did all that stuff... now you get to cry.
Our founders gave us SMALL, LIMITED government for many good reasons, just one of which is that it's not likely to be weaponized and used by one side of a philosophical arrgument to hammer the other side. Limited government would not have enabled Obama to hammer the right, but it would also have prevented Trump from hammering the left. Remember that when the Trump hammer falls on your sacred cows and maybe gradually you will realize we were all better off with limited government.
"61 Mayors Vow Support for International Bureaucracy"