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Posted on 12/07/2016 10:07:45 PM PST by Steelfish
The U.S. Should Abandon the Paris Agreement and Learn from China
by RUPERT DARWALL December 7, 2016
The Clean Power Plan, too, risks America’s industrial future. One of the first items of business for the Trump administration will be to decide what to do with the Paris Agreement. In September, the Obama administration deposited with the United Nations general secretary an instrument accepting the Paris climate treaty without first asking the Senate for its advice and consent.
As matters stand, the United States is now bound to the Obama administration’s target of reducing economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. The domestic counterpart of the Paris Agreement is the EPA’s Clean Power Plan — also crafted to avoid congressional approval — which is how the Obama administration intends for the U.S. to achieve its Paris obligations.
During the presidential election, Donald Trump denounced one-sided trade deals for destroying American jobs. The Paris Agreement is the mother and father of one-sided deals. It requires the United States to keep cutting its emissions in perpetuity irrespective of what anyone else does.
Unlike the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (which the Senate would have rejected had Bill Clinton sent it to the Senate), there are no escape hatches. It forces the U.S. to play by its own rules while letting everyone else play by their own. Short of repudiating the whole treaty, once on the escalator, there’s no way off.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442822/paris-climate-agreement-united-states-clean-power-plan-china-coal-emissions
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The president does NOT have that kind of power. All Trump; has to do is ignore it and the UN has NO power over us!
The Paris Agreement could be useful - as kindling, to restart a coal-fired power plant.
Sorry, Rupee. But we're repudiating it.
America first!
Send it to the Senate for ratification.
There is no way it can pass, and it will be dead for good.
Red State, and Energy State Democrat Senators will be put in a bind to vote against it, to save their own political careers at home.
Trump’s hands will be clean.
The perfect solution.
“the Obama administration deposited with the United Nations general secretary an instrument accepting the Paris climate treaty without first asking the Senate for its advice and consent.
As matters stand, the United States is now bound to the Obama administration’s target of reducing economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. “
Uhm, no we’re not.
It was not ratified so, we can just ignore it or rescind it, so it will have to be brought through the ratification process properly, in the future
Honey Badger don't give a shit about anything National Review says anymore, and wishes people would quite posting NR links here.
All Trump has to do is to issue a statement that Obama signed the agreement illegally and was without power to do so.
Trump staffers—pay attention.
Trump says “Folks around the world have been asking how the United States plans to comply with the Paris climate treaty.”
Then he takes out a copy of the treaty and lights it on fire with a blowtorch on the White House lawn.
Then he says: “Any questions?”
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
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