Posted on 05/30/2017 11:07:42 AM PDT by Red Steel
President Donald Trump privately told several confidants that he will be pulling out of the Paris climate deal, three sources with direct knowledge told Axios.
The president refused Saturday to join his Group of 7 (G7) counterparts in a pledge to uphold the 195-nation Paris Agreement. Trump tweeted that he will make his decision next week, signaling that he has yet to officially make up his mind.
I will make my final decision on the Paris Accord next week!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2017
Pulling out of the Paris climate deal would unravel Obama-era climate change policies, and possibly the agreement itself. Dropping the agreement would also send a message to the world that climate change is not a pressing issue for the new administration.
White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said earlier that if Trump is faced with a choice between growing the economy and fighting global warming, Trump will choose the economy.
“If it comes to a choice between measures to curtail global warming under the 2015 Paris climate accord and growing the U.S. economy, economic considerations would prevail,” Cohn told reporters on Air Force One Thursday.
Cohn, along with Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson favor the agreement, while Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt are against it. Pruitt was reportedly among those in which Trump confided that he intends to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
Trump’s unwillingness to pledge support for the climate deal upset certain European partners, specifically Germany’s Chanellor Angela Merkel. “The entire discussion about climate was very difficult, if not to say very dissatisfying,” she told reporters, “There are no indications whether the United States will stay in the Paris Agreement or not.”
“His basis for decision ultimately is going to be what’s best for the United States,” Cohn said Saturday.
Hmmm — hope you are wrong. We’ll know soon enough.
Should have been, “remain there”
So, if he announced this week we’re out...what does that mean in your world?
Laz, I’m trying to eat lunch here...
I’ll take your review of the Jared factor (don’t know enough of his post Europe visit to comment), and pretty much agree with the rest.
Notice we’re always the bad guy, but our traditional enemies get a complete pass on the subject. You alluded to it.
The U.N. and the E.U. want to hobble the United States.
Good luck with that under Trump, figuratively speaking.
It has amazed me since the inception of this global warming/climate change began back in the beginning when the fear was that we were about to enter another “ice age” This is and always has been fueled by atheists that believe that there is no all-powerful God that created the heavens and the earth. Man was given dominion over His creation, not control of it. Man can no more control the climate of this planet than he can the climate on the surface of the sun. This is godless drivel. Pay no attention to it.
That is why I've never considered Paris to be a big deal. It's just an agreement to do whatever each country wants.
What Trump needs to do is repeal the executive orders and regs Obama put in place in the name of Paris.
His best move would be to send it to the Senate as a treaty requiring senate approval.
“His best move would be to send it to the Senate as a treaty requiring senate approval.”
Nope, too many feckless neverTrumpists to count on winning a vote. Never ask a question where you don’t already know the answer. Yertle can’t even get his cat herd together on the AHCA.
You're absolutely correct. There are no teeth to this to make Trump or the United States to comply with anything.
I almost made a crack here the other day that Trump would "pledge" whatever the United States produced in CO2 for the year and not no more than that! But I left the comment off FR because I didn't think many would know what I was talking about.
If you wondered about that quote I got it from the liberals at the Huffington Puffington Post. Supposedly they quoted a close friend of Jared.
I was tipped off about something was up from Ms. 'Everything Ivanka Jared Ivanka Jared Ivanka Jared Ivanka Jared Ivanka ...'!
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I hear ya...
It would mean that Trump buckled under Conservative pressure.
Trump has always been center-left politically, except for a few issues like violent illegal immigrants, and maybe economics, and maybe Justice Gorsuch.
I'll withhold judgment on Gorsuch for a couple years. I knew exactly how Scalia and Clarence Thomas would vote, but not Gorsuch.
The only way Trump will stick to the Conservative platform he won with is if Conservatives keep relentless political pressure on him.
The huge contingent of Always-Trump Conservatives at Free Republic guarantees that Trump will never stop trying to move to the Left.
He's going to wimp out on his campaign promises...and if he doesn't, it's because he "buckled under conservative pressure."
There's just no winning with you, is there?
What a sad world you live in.
And from the good (employed, private sector) to the evil (scientific illiterate busybody liberals).
And from the good (employed, private sector) to the evil (scientific illiterate busybody liberals).
Uh, no. Why would you ask them to ratify something wrong and evil? Besides, this crew would probably do it.
Re: What a sad world you live in.
In my neighborhood, we call this the “real” world.
Trump is not a Conservative. Never was. Never will be.
I voted for Trump because I hoped he might slow down America’s political, demographic, and economic suicide.
So far, he’s meeting my expectations.
My biggest shock is the huge number of formerly clear minded Conservatives who treat Trump like some kind of demigod who is exempt from all mortal criticism.
If only they had left out Doogie Howser boy....otherwise, pretty good.
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