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UN Climate Treaty Will Cost $100 Trillion and Won't Work

Jack Hays said:
[h=1]It’s official! Trump pulls out of The #ParisAgreement on Climate[/h]President Trump just announced that the U.S. will “withdraw” out of the Paris Climate Accord. But “begin negotiations to re-enter”. Trump said: “We will cease honoring all non-binding agreements”, and “will stop contributing to the green climate fund”. “I can not in good conscience support a deal that harms the United States”. “The bottom line…
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He wants to repeal and replace the climate accord.
 
Jack Hays said:

[h=1]#ParisAgreement climate accord fails – CO2 emissions growing worldwide- Trump vindicated for pulling out[/h]The Paris Climate Accords Are Looking More and More Like Fantasy By David Wallace-Wells Remember Paris? It was not even two years ago that the celebrated climate accords were signed — defining two degrees of global warming as a must-meet target and rallying all the world’s nations to meet it — and the returns are already…
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Hey, Trump is vindicated! Wow! What's up with that?
 
Dittohead not! said:
Hey, Trump is vindicated! Wow! What's up with that?
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A good manager knows when to listen to his experts, I suspect Trump knows what he does not know.
Paris was always just an expensive feel good measure.
Any real changes in emissions will come as a results of market forces.
 
Dittohead not! said:
He wants to repeal and replace the climate accord.
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Europe told him no.

Meanwhile America by themselves reduce emissions for the last THREE years, while Europe increase emissions.....

187 out of 195 nations FAILED to meet their emission targets.

Chew on that for a while.
 
longview said:
A good manager knows when to listen to his experts, I suspect Trump knows what he does not know.
Paris was always just an expensive feel good measure.
Any real changes in emissions will come as a results of market forces.
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Yes, a good manager knows when to listen to his experts. Trump, on the other hand, doesn't.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Yes, a good manager knows when to listen to his experts. Trump, on the other hand, doesn't.
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I suspect that Trump is not an expert in climate science, and yet he made a decision that kept the US out of a bad agreement,
Ergo, he is ether lucky or listening to an expert.
Since I do not think luck applies, I have to go with he listened to his experts.
 
Climate News
[h=1]“Carbon trading” in the EU fails, emissions on the rise again.[/h]Carbon emissions from power plants and factories covered by the EU Emissions Trading System rose 0.5% to 1,757.3 million mt in 2017, according to a poll of six market analysts by S&P Global Platts. It was the first time since 2011 that emissions were estimated to have risen, after industrial production slumped in the wake…
 

[h=1]Bangladesh, Ethiopia, China Demand More Geoengineering Money[/h]Guest essay by Eric Worrall Scientists from countries including Bangladesh, Ethiopia and China have demanded more involvement with global climate change geoengineering initiatives, to be funded by cash from other countries. Scientists suggest a giant sunshade in the sky could solve global warming Scholars from developing countries call for greater say in solar geoengineering research,…
 
Like I said...

Follow the money...
 
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