Posted on 01/20/2025 3:12:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he will again withdraw the United States, a top carbon polluting nation, from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies.
The White House announcement, which came as Trump was sworn in Monday to a second term, echoed Trump’s actions in 2017, when he announced that the U.S. would abandon the global Paris accord. The pact is aimed at limiting long-term global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels or, failing that, keeping temperatures at least well below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels.
The 2015 Paris agreement is voluntary and allows nations to provide targets to cut their own emissions of greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Those targets are supposed to become more stringent over time, with countries facing a February 2025 deadline for new individual plans. The outgoing Biden administration last month offered a plan to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% by 2035.
Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation and a key architect of the Paris agreement, called the planned U.S. withdrawal unfortunate but said action to slow climate change “is stronger than any single country’s politics and policies.”
The global context for Trump’s action is “very different to 2017,’' Tubiana said, adding that “there is unstoppable economic momentum behind the global transition, which the U.S has gained from and led but now risks forfeiting.”
The International Energy Agency expects the global market for key clean energy technologies to triple to more than $2 trillion by 2035, she said.
“The impacts of the climate crisis are also worsening. The terrible wildfires in Los Angeles are…
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Okay so this whole 4 year see saw needs to stop. This is a reminder of how vital this movement remains beyond Trump and beyond this term.
Yeah, make sense of that with the Greenies. DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!
Yes!
Excellent! We need to extricate our country from this scam.
It’s not enough to win an election.
“the United States, a top carbon polluting nation“
AP is a cancer
THE WINNING!
NOT TIRED AT ALL!!!
Stupid governments are using the Paris climate agreement to destroy their countries
This climate change crap started in the 60’s with “THE ICE AGE IS COMING!!! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!
It started with The Club Of Rome, precursor to the WEF.
Enough said.
...and the grift. Do we still have to eat ze bugs?
The world is now long-term 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.3 degrees Celsius) above mid-1800s temperature
The A.P. Is beyond moronic.
Stalin would have loved them.
Nothing but a tax scam and worse.
Notice the way not one country has a plan to do this. No mitigation strategies in case they overshoot, no idea who gets the money and what the money will be used for. There is no project plan, and I submit to this forum that cutting emissions by 60% by 2035 is nothing more than a lie that the people who are lying won’t be around to be held accountable. Plus, Al Gore already discredited the narrative all by himself.
Not one of his global warming religious prophecies from "An Inconvenient Truth" have come true.
“The International Energy Agency expects the global market for key clean energy technologies to triple to more than $2 trillion by 2035, she said. ... “The impacts of the climate crisis are also worsening.”
cause and effect, there, lady?
,,, the future lies in building private jets to get delegates to climate conferences.
“The International Energy Agency expects the global market for key clean energy technologies to triple to more than $2 trillion by 2035, she said. ...
They have concept of what wealth is.
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