Trump Just Formally Pulled the U.S. Out of the Paris Agreement. This Is a Dark Day for America.

Carnegie Endowment ^ | November 04, 2019 | John Kerry, Chuck Hagel

[chris37]

I just looked out my window, and it is sunny, cool and just beautiful!

YAY CLIMATE!

[Grampa Dave]

A great victory for America and not a shot was fired nor a US warrior wounded or killed.

The markets may go nuts. This might be time to load up on some market index funds and “Jack Ryan” noted in the new Jack Ryan series on Prime.

[Liz]

Yeah, but they still got Obama's contribution of a billion tax dollars.

Obama gave $500m to Green Climate Fund to protect Paris deal; leaves $2bn owing.
Twice Obama took 500M from the state department,
using executive powers without congressional support.
Michael Slezak / Tue 17 Jan 2017 / Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 12.06 EST

Barack Obama has transferred a second $500m instalment to the Green Climate Fund just three days before he leaves office. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Pres Obama helped secure the historic Paris agreement by transferring a second $500m installment to the Green Climate Fund, just three days before he leaves office.

The fund was a key aspect of the Paris agreement signed in 2015, which aims to keep global warming “well below” 2C and aspires to keep warming to 1.5C. Established in 2010, it is financed by wealthy countries and used to assist developing countries with adaptation and mitigation. It was widely seen as a key measure to bring both rich and poor countries to the negotiating table.

The US committed to transferring $3bn tax dollars to the fund. The new instalment leaves $2bn owing, with the incoming president, Donald Trump, expected to cease any further payments. The move followed a large campaign, with more than 100 organisations and nearly 100,000 people calling for Obama to transfer the full $2.5bn owed to the fund.

“The Obama administration is refusing to let president-elect Trump’s posse of oil barons and climate deniers dictate how the world responds to the climate crisis,” said Tamar Lawrence-Samuel, of Corporate Accountability International, which led the campaign. “Tens of thousands of people around the world called on President Obama to step up before Trump takes the keys of our government and tries to reverse decades of climate progress,” she said. “This victory is the climate justice movement’s opening salvo to the Trump presidency. And we’re not going away.”

SOURCE https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/barack-obama-transfers-500m-to-green-climate-fund-in-attempt-to-protect-paris-deal

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Or did the Obama billion make a detour through an offshore bank?

[Grampa Dave]

Good. It would choke any economic growth in the USA in many ways while the rest of the world rapidly advances. The POTUS sees right thru this BS.

Now the reverse will happen!

[LeonardFMason]

Let’s review this ridiculous article:

“hundreds of top scientists from 13 federal agencies” : These are inherently biased propagandists who will benefit from their lies.

“The past five years were the warmest ever recorded. Without steep pollution reductions, climate change will risk tens of thousands of U.S. lives every year by the end of the century. Rising seas, increased storm surge and tidal flooding threaten $1 trillion in public infrastructure and private property now along U.S. coastlines. The United States has experienced at least $400 billion in weather and climate disaster costs since 2014. The recent hurricanes that slammed America’s southern coasts, as well as historic wildfires in California, resulted in more American victims of severe weather juiced by climate change than ever before.”
OPINIONS presented as FACTS: Propaganda.

“necessary transition to a low-carbon global economy”
The US is benefiting from being the largest carbon based energy producer in the world today. The authors despise this. They would rather have us held hostage by OPEC.

“We must all mitigate the damage Trump does to the United States before then, but if there was ever an election in which U.S. leadership and the nation’s security were on the ballot, 2020 is it.”
This article is FAKE and PHONY. Nothing to do with Climate Change. Just an lousy excuse to say don’t vote for Trump.

[Grampa Dave]

If it puts Kerry’s panties, (fill in the blank__________, in a wad) I’m for it.

[Vermont Lt]

It is cloudy here. I am not sure I would go with “dark.”

But, as a photographer, I am all about lighting. Say, f8 at 125, 400 iso (or ASA for you old timers.)

[rlmorel]

One of the most delightful and encouraging days of the entire Trump Administration was the day he announced in the Rose Garden he was going to withdraw from that agreement.

These leftist turds can go pound sand. All of them.

[hanamizu]

By putting up roadblocks to the necessary transition to a low-carbon global economy,

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Pardon my ignorance, but what “roadblocks” has President Trump put in the way of “a low-carbon economy”? Anyone who wants to explore, research, & implement ways to get to a low-carbon economy is free to do so, is he not?

Perhaps they mean, Trump has failed to put up roadblocks to the carbon-fuel based economy that has allowed billions of people to enjoy comfortable lifestyles that were only available to the wealthiest and most powerful in the past.

[artichokegrower]

Five luxury homes, 76-foot yacht, SUV, and a private jet: John Kerry models the lifestyle of a warmist who allegedly believes in fighting global warming

[old curmudgeon]

“A dark day for America”

Libs have no shame.

It is the libs who want to turn out your lights.

What is it they call that day of the year when everyone is supposed to turn off their lights?

And who are they who support and celebrate that day?

[Artcore]

Chuck Hagel is a RINO’s RINO!

FUJK...FUCH!

[Sacajaweau]

Dark Day?? I just turned my lamp on....the one with the incandescent bulb....that warms my chair for a reading binge.

[a fool in paradise]

By John FTheArmy Kerry, worthless turd and known liar

[a fool in paradise]

California is going dark.

“No electricity for you!”

[simpson96]

Woo-hoooo!!!!! :-D

[wac3rd]

Two old Commies waiting for their carbon credit cash to start rolling in. STFU.

[PGalt]

HOORAY Chief. Thank you, sir.

[hadaclueonce]

Voting against John Kerry is always the best option.

[Getready]

Hey..that’s my pun! Or so I thought.