Wow...So even tho this is supposedly a non-binding agreement that we just entered into 9 months ago, we are not allowed to leave for 2.5 years?!?!
Thanks Barak! Not :(
But thank you for sharing the link!
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.