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| The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement |
| 2019-11-17 |
| by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo [VoltaireNet] Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Per the terms of the Agreement, the United States submitted formal notification of its withdrawal to the United Nations. The withdrawal will take effect one year from delivery of the notification. As noted in his June 1, 2017 remarks, President Trump made the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement because of the unfair economic burden imposed on American workers, businesses, and taxpayers by U.S. pledges made under the Agreement. The United States has reduced all types of emissions, even as we grow our economy and ensure our citizens’ access to affordable energy. Our results speak for themselves: U.S. emissions of criteria air pollutants that impact human health and the environment declined by 74% between 1970 and 2018. U.S. net greenhouse gas emissions dropped 13% from 2005-2017, even as our economy grew over 19 percent. The U.S. approach incorporates the reality of the global energy mix and uses all energy sources and technologies cleanly and efficiently, including fossils fuels, nuclear energy, and renewable energy. In international climate discussions, we will continue to offer a realistic and pragmatic model ‐ backed by a record of real world results ‐ showing innovation and open markets lead to greater prosperity, fewer emissions, and more secure sources of energy. We will continue to work with our global partners to enhance resilience to the impacts of climate change and prepare for and respond to natural disasters. Just as we have in the past, the United States will continue to research, innovate, and grow our economy while reducing emissions and extending a helping hand to our friends and partners around the globe. Related: In an interview posted in translation on the Global Warming Policy Forum, Ottmar Edenhofer, then co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III, stated: "One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy ... One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy any more. ... That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capita basis, then Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there." |
| Posted by:Herb McCoy |
| #4 And we remember from past articles that the Paris Accord ...had absolutely no enforcement mechanism. Nonetheless, the U.S. was the only one making headway toward the stated goals. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-11-17 15:09 |
| #3 To misquote George Costanza from Seinfeld, "It's not the biggest scientific fraud since the Piltdown Man if you believe it." |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-11-17 10:41 |
| #2 And we remember from past articles that the Paris Accord was based upon a widely discredited steaming pile of abject academic incompetence that even the climate Nazis said was misrepresented and deliberately false data |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-11-17 10:25 |
| #1 "The object of power is power." |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-17 09:15 |