Posted on 11/06/2016 7:07:26 AM PST by rktman
A day after Donald Trump pledged to “cancel billions in global warming payments to the United Nations,” top administration climate officials said Thursday that the outcome of next week’s election would not likely have a major impact on the international momentum driving the Paris climate accord, despite the fact that “the candidates have very different views on climate.”
The Paris agreement, the most ambitious climate pact yet negotiated by the U.N., enters into force on Friday.
Despite Trump’s threats to walk away from the agreement as president, one of the officials said that although the accord allows for countries to withdraw, he did not think that would be a likely development.
“There’s an article 28 in the agreement that provides for procedures for countries that would seek to withdraw,” deputy special envoy for climate change Jonathan Pershing said in a teleconference call. “But at the moment, I don’t think that’s very likely.”
Pershing said it was his sense that “there are going to be huge domestic advantages to staying in this agreement,” citing the potential of investments in green energy.
“So I expect us to want to stay in the discussion.”
Also taking part in the briefing, John Morton, the National Security Council’s director for energy and climate change, acknowledged a questioner’s point that Trump and Hillary Clinton “have very different views on climate.”
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No ratification by the Senate, no agreement.
**** the UN!
We musta forgot the lyin’ king mantra. “Senate? I don’t need no steenkin’ senate.”
Stroke of the pen, law of the land.
With that, Trump can undo everything Obama put into place.
And the Paris Accord was never ratified by the Senate.
Obama is dreaming.
That gets me too. The media recently said enough countries were on board with the Paris thing to make it legally binding. And my question was, when did the US Senate ever ratify this agreement?
I have yet to hear anyone in our inept mainstream media, ask the question, about how some agreement is binding when we never went through the Senate to ratify this international treaty?
They’re softening it by referring to it as an “accord.”
Bunk !
They also have long since been calling governing conventions mere treaties.
It’s how lawless scum advance their agendas.
They are delusional. If Trump wins this fleecing of America in the name of “climate change” by the UN is over,
Is this the Paris agreement from last year that says
* countries will decide on and publish their own carbon goals
* countries will report on if they are meeting their goals
* there is no penalty for having a goal like “we will increase our carbon use by 100x in 10 year” or having a goal like “we will get to 0 carbon in 20 years” then tripling carbon and reporting that they are not meeting the goal.
Basically the agreement was to look like something is being accomplished not to actually do anything. And most countries will do nothing. Congress will keep Hillary from destroying the economy regardless of what goals she publishes. She’ll just have to report that no progress has been made toward her goals. Trump will just give a goal to do little/nothing and report we are meeting it (or he’ll ignore an un-ratified agreement).
So it’s true that the election will have little impact.
Trump should stand at the Rose Garden and burn a copy of the treaty.
(Lefties used to burn draft cards in the 1960s—now it is _our_ turn.)
Getting control of the language...
The Kyoto Protocol died when voters threw out the crazy governments
““There’s an article 28 in the agreement that provides for procedures for countries that would seek to withdraw,” deputy special envoy for climate change Jonathan Pershing said in a teleconference call. “But at the moment, I don’t think that’s very likely.”
I wonder of those procedures include provisions for being told to “go to hell, we’re cutting you off”?
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