I am trying to understand, since it’s an unratified treaty, why there will be any period of time where we have to have any involvement if the decision is to withdraw. What are we withdrawing from? And I particularly want assurances that while Trump is trying to craft a new budget with a whole new direction, that we have to have a nickels worth of money to lay out for this turkey.
He just needs to say that the Paris agreement should have been submitted to the US Senate for ratification as a treaty, that since it has never been ratified by the US Senate the US has never been a party to the agreement. He does not now intend to submit it to the US Senate since he does not consider it to be a treaty the US should join.
That not only announces our rejection of the agreement but also repudiates the idea that we have to go through a prolonged multi-year process to make that withdrawal happen. We were never really “in” it in the first place.
AND, it’s a nice kick in the nuts to Barry and the clowns that pushed this crap on us in the first place.