There is a great deal of stupidity going on here. Let me list a few things that make no sense at all:
America now stands with Nicaragua and Syria as the only countries not in the Paris Accord. Ok, But North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and Russia are in the accord. And Nicaragua is not in because they say the accord does not solve any climate problems. Nicaragua is actively moving its electric power use away from oil to Hydro, geothermal, and wind. Nicaragua actually cares about this issue a lot.
Most scientists believe in climate change. Which is a stupid statement. First, most scientists are not climatologists. They have no scientific background in the area. Second, since when is a popular vote among scientists a scientific reason to believe something is true. Galileo believed the earth revolved around the sun. But he was not in the majority at the time. Did the sun revolve around the earth until more scientists saw it his way? Then it changed?
The Paris Accord is not a treaty. Its not even legal. We have never ratified the Paris Accord. And by the way, a quarter of the other countries have not ratified it either. Yet Barack Obama took tens of billions of tax payer dollars out of the US defense budget and gave it to the Paris Accord without congress’s approval or authorization. He just gave them the money. The Paris Accord is not only, not legal. Its actually illegal.
Republicans like to say. Americans know best how to spend their money, not Washington. Well, the Paris Accord half way agrees with that. They agree that Washington, with all its elected officials, does not know how to spend American tax payer’s money. But Paris does. And they can do it without any elected officials.
Climatologists all like the Paris Accord. Well, of course they do. The Paris Accord funds them forever. It provides a huge slush fund that they control to fund whatever they want. And of course it will be them.
Almost every country in the world signed on to the Paris Accord. Thats right. The Paris Accord is basically a slush fund which has $100 billion dollars of largely American money doled out to the rest of the world. So why would they not sign. They don’t have to do anything. They don’t have to pay anything. But they get American tax dollars. Where do I sign up?
Elon Musk from Tesla and SolarCity and GEs CEO Jeff Immelt are very upset that America has pulled out of the Paris Accord. Here’s the real scam. American companies that produce solar panels and wind turbines will “sell” their products all over the world to countries who will be given a grant from the Paris Accord to “buy” the solar panels and wind turbines. And of course 10 middle men (foreign government officials) will get paid off as well, so everyone gets rich, but the American tax payers.
America needs a seat at the table. America needs to lead on Climate change. Well let me say that the seat is at a table but so is the cash register. What America wants is to have its companies and scientists get some of the money. Its like these guys cut a whole in the vault that stores tax payer money. And they want to be there to collect the spoils. Otherwise Chinese panels and turbines will be “sold” to other countries using American tax dollars. But wait. If Trump seals the leak. There will be no American tax dollars. And we will see how much money the rest of the world actually puts in the fund. So far its almost nothing.
What does T. Rex want to lower it to?
That statement almost smacks of insubordination or sabotage, in my opinion. I think it undermines, and goes against the grain of what his boss just did with the climate accord.
It's not Tillerson's place to state such a broad goal, or even hint at such committments. That's the President's job.
Hey Don! Why is this idiot part of your administration?
IOW, Tillerson will continue to promote the Enrich Algore Hoax.
There has been no warming for 20 years.
There’s too little CO2 in the atmosphere. Plants are gasping for it.
If the Earth does warm, it would be, on the whole, beneficial.
We are reducing emissions. In 2007, carbon dioxide emissions were 19.24 tons per capita in the U.S. In 2013, it was 16.39 metric tons. This was due to feminism, expanded government control, Black Lives Matter, and...
okay, I’m lying. It was due to fracking for natural gas. In other words, free enterprise and real science.
Why in the Hell would you want to reduce the life giving compound of this world, Rex?
Are you stupid, dishonest or both?
The US will continue to reduce greenhouse gases? The operative word is “greenhouse” or CO2 emissions. They are going after the wrong thing. The smart thing would be to continue to reduce air and water pollution as is cost effective as that has health consequences. Real environmentalism instead of commie games.
Carbon Dioxide is good for plants, without it they die.
Plants need carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, which leads to the production of sugars, and eventually more complex molecules for use by the plant in growth and metabolism.
Why isn’t this taught in schools anymore?
Not if Trump keeps getting rid of regulations, he-he-hee!
I’m going to say it: I don’t like Tillerson. He has that James Baker vipe. Good for chief of staff, maybe...
From out stand point the Paris Accord was drafted by Obama and company and they did not have the United States best interest at heart. In fact it was just the opposite. What President Trump did was the smart thing to do.
If companies want to participate in this, I don’t really care. The stockholders of the participating companies can decide to stay or sell. What I don’t like is the Government forcing anyone to participate when the SCIENCE really isn’t there. Tillerson had better not be coercing companies to participate; the participating companies had better be doing it of their own volition, or it will just be another Obama program......and NOT ONE of those were good for the USA.
NOT what I want to hear from SOS. Under Obama, State killed the Keystone pipeline.
If State has to chime in, then it would be better to hear “We are taking the chains off coal. We are going to use our abundant natural resources to lower the cost of electricity for all Americans. Rates have soared through these misguided “green energy” programs and Americans are suffering. We are going to ignite American dominance with low energy rates from coal power.”
That’s O.K., although I question its wisdom. Plants need the carbon di to grow. Experiments have proven, the more they have, the faster and more fruitful they are. Since carbon di is a mere 0.04% (Less than one-twentieth of 1%) of Earth’s atmosphere, the whole exercize seems silly. I’m sad to see T-Rex fall for that scam.
I hope Rex means we’ll proceed to increase fracking and production of natural gas, including exports on a global scale. That could drastically reduce co2 emissions, a fig leaf really, but it makes economic sense to me.
And our numbers would look good since it’s appearances that matter, apparently, not anything truly meaningful.
And the slush fund, which is what the world is really squawking about, they can fund the thing all they want with their own taxpayer money.