Posted on 06/01/2017 8:24:27 PM PDT by janetjanet998
BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe must make clear to the United States that quitting the Paris climate agreement is not a straightforward process, and that fully leaving the deal will take years, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday.
Related Searches Paris Climate AccordParis Climate Agreement SummaryParis Climate Agreement Explained "Europe's duty is to say: it's not like that," Juncker told a student conference on the future of Europe organized by the German employers' association BDA. "The Americans can't just leave the climate protection agreement. Mr. Trump believes that because he doesn't know the details."
That statement is simply false.
No wonder that the Brits didn’t want to be chained to these people.
Junker is an ass
If it’s a treaty we never ratified it in the senate so it is still dead.
That treaty did NOT obligate the United States to any specific plan, and there was a pledge made by the Bush administration at the time that the United States would submit any actual commitments made under the UNFCCC to the Senate for explicit ratification.
Barack 0bama broke that deal. But that does NOT mean that the US is committed to Paris. We are still in the UNFCCC; the Senate should rescind that Treaty immediately. Barring that, the matter will go to the Federal Courts, however, the Supreme Court has historically taken sub rosa commitments made by the President to the Senate at the time treaties have been ratified as binding on the interpretation of the treaty. As ratified by the Senate at the time of the Bush Administration's entry into UNFCCC, a Paris-like agreement could not have been considered an extension of the treaty.
The bottom line is that is simply FALSE to claim that Barack 0bama's subversion of both the Executive's commitment to Congress and the Constitution should be assumed binding. It should, in fact, be assumed NOT TO BE.
The funny thing is he thinks its true or if he says it and enough people pick up the chorus it can be made true. Sing along and dance along its MAGA fools! This guy’s more immediate need is to figure out which way is east.
“Nuts”
John François Kerry signed this squat at a U.N. ceremony. BTW - has he released his DD214 yet?
And no...he hasn't EVER released anything at all.
Secretary of State John Kerry, with his two-year-old granddaughter on his lap, signs the Paris Agreement on Climate Change on April 22, 2016 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (Photo: U.S. State Dept.)
What a sickening, completely disgusting, picture of an ILLEGAL act!
Juncker is probably right about that
We dont know the “ details” about what commitments obama made
( just like obamacare and the Iran arms deal and the muslim refugees we agreed to accept from Australia and the last minute sanctions on Russia and...
Nor do we know yet if the Senate will,grow a spine and back the POTUS and the people and refuse to cooperate in an international agreement what was un constitutionally imposed
We are not a vassal state of the EU
Exactly. This is no binding treaty and is not recognized with American law. It was a rogue Obama that is no longer calling the shots.
Wanna bet, Moron?
Trump could have some fun—notify Juncker that any act to enforce the treaty on any citizen, corporation or agency of the US will be treated as an act of war.... :-)
Oh, yes, and Putin can join in the press conference and say ditto for Russia.
The Eurocrats and worldwide lefty media would turn into screaming monkeys!
There’s going to be much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Main State today! Love it!
“The Americans can’t just leave the climate protection agreement.”
YES WE CAN!
(with apologies to NOTUS Barry Soetero)
OK, who let Junker outta the drink tank!?
Drunk tank....
Trump has already sunset EPA regs that put us outside Paris Accord.
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