Via: https://thebulletin.org/2020/
Excerpt: “An important date is coming up. On November 4, the day after the election, the United States will earn a dubious distinction: It will become the only country in the world to formally exit the Paris agreement. In the historic global climate change deal, struck in 2015, 189 countries agreed on nonbinding domestic targets to keep global temperatures well below a disastrous 2 degrees Celsius…”“ Since his 2017 announcement, Trump has been repeating two dangerous lies about US participation in the deal: His first lie was that the agreement would come at immense cost to Americans while other major polluters would contribute nothing; his second was that the United States has already exited the accord. “The Paris Accord, I took us out because we were going to have to spend trillions of dollars and we were treated very unfairly,” Trump said in the extensive climate section of the debate.About that: First of all, Trump didn’t actually withdraw—rather, the United States will be in the Paris deal until November 4 because of a required three-year waiting period…”
“ It would be easy for a Biden administration to rejoin the Paris deal in January, but they would have much more work to do to repair relationships and trust in American leadership. And he has even more to do on the domestic front to repair Trump’s war on climate science. ”
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US Officially Withdraws From Paris Agreement On Climate Change – The U.S. officially withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. The 2015 agreement was ratified by 189 countries and six more have signed, but have yet to ratify, the AP reported. President Donald Trump sparked criticism and support after announcing the U.S’s withdrawal in 2017, according to another AP report. (RELATED: It’s Been One Year Since Trump Promised To Leave The Paris Climate Accord) “Having the U.S. pull out of Paris is likely to reduce efforts to mitigate, and therefore increase the number of people who are put into a life-or-death situation because of the impacts of climate change: this is clear from the science,” Engineering Professor Natalie Mahowald at Cornell University, said, according to the AP.
US participation in Paris climate deal expires at midnight – Regardless of how Election Day turns out for President Trump and Joe Biden, the US will no longer be a part of the Paris climate deal as of midnight, according to a report. Trump withdrew the US from the global accord on July 1, 2017, but the rules of the deal stipulated that any country wanting to pull out would have to wait three years from Nov. 4, 2016 – the day it became international law, Politico reported Monday. The US officially filed its separation documents last Nov. 4, and the one-year cooling off period expires at midnight. The State Department will not take an active part in United Nations’ meetings on the climate deal, but it will remain an observer. The Paris Climate Accord, signed by 197 countries, created a goal to halt warming “well below” 2 degrees Celsius and try to maintain it at 1.5 degrees by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Biden said, if elected, he would reenter the agreement.
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The #ParisClimateHoax is all about UN control of our economy as enforced by radical green groups with lawyers.
That is what Biden wants.
Thanks to @realDonaldTrump for pulling us our of the legal Paris agreement as of tomorrow!#VoteTrump https://t.co/u35Uo7yCmH
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) November 3, 2020
Flashback 2017: Cheers! Skeptics toast U.S. exit from Paris pact at UN climate summit in Germany
The toast heard round the world.
Climate Skeptics Celebrate USA’s Withdrawal
Climate Skeptics Celebrate USA’s Withdrawal from Paris Pact in Germany during UN Climate summit. The skeptics were holding their own event featuring scientists from all over Europe and Israel.
Climate Skeptics Celebrate USA’s Withdrawal from Paris Pact in Germany during UN Climate summit.
European leaders have spent years trying and pointedly failing to solve the climate crisis with regulation. Whether intentionally or not, U.S. policymakers have mostly avoided top-down solutions. And counterintuitively, or perhaps it should have been intuitive, the U.S. now leads the developed world in reducing carbon emissions.
Policymakers can learn an important lesson from this. The key to fighting climate change is to unleash the power of the free market, not to embrace every green politician’s or activist’s nutty new idea.
“Instead of banning fossil fuels outright, the U.S. embraced natural gas amid a boom in its production. Thanks to a process called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” we’ve managed to tap new reserves of natural gas. In 2015, the U.S. surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s top producer of natural gas. By 2018, energy companies produced over 60% more natural gas than they had two decades earlier. This newfound abundance of natural gas has helped our nation transition away from coal, which emits twice as much carbon dioxide.
Cheers! President Trump ‘has broken the spell of climate change mania’
‘In the case of the Paris process, he has succeeded almost without trying. The answer to the question, “Which major country in the world has most successfully reduced its CO2 emissions?” is, “The United States of America”. US emissions hit a 25-year low last year. This success has nothing to do with the UN caravan, which has rolled on for 30 years, or, indeed, with Mr Trump. It has everything to do with the shale revolution – the triumph of much cleaner fossil fuels. Energy prices are falling.’
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‘Perhaps if Copenhagen had taken place before the global credit crunch of 2008, the world would have swallowed anything. The great paradox of greenery is that it is a boom phenomenon: only when a society is awash with dosh does it start believing it wouldn’t mind getting poorer. By December 2009, however, the dosh had evaporated.’
ALERT: Trump to pull U.S. out of UN Paris Climate Pact – A Victory for Science!
Update: CNN: Trump expected to withdraw from Paris climate agreement – Will Announce at 3pm Thursday
Hillary on Trump Paris pullout: ‘Really stupid… totally incomprehensible… incredibly foolish’
Trump inspires Clexit! East European States Mount Revolt Against UN Paris Agreement
Cheers! WaPo: Whatever Trump decides on Paris, he’s already put the brakes on climate action
