Doesn't take a genius (although Trump is a genius) to figure out that China will benefit greatly from our hobbling our industry while they expand theirs.
If you look at China’s increase in production of steel, aluminum and cement, increase in consumpution of coal, and increased electric generation, all since 2000, it’s pretty obvious the Chinese have absolutely no intent to abide by any sort of climate treaty.
However, looking around the web for the actual raw data on increased Chinese economic activity invariably leads to articles bashing Americans for an excessive per capita consumption of energy. Usually, the articles are written in Britain. The whole climate treaty nonsense was not hatched by the Chinese, but the Euros, and was intended to bring us down a notch. They do not care that China is making more of an environmental mess than the rest of the world combined, somehow we’re still the bad people.
So you know where one of these treaties is going to go. Don’t forget 0bama’s quote in 2008, something to the effect that “Americans can’t have 5% of the world’s population and use 25% of its resources and have the rest of the world say it’s OK.”