joG
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Brouhaha? Not at all. No more so than the Kyoto Accords which were never ratified. And that IS the point. Nothing agreed to by attendees is relevant until it has been passed and ratified by Congress. The UN does not have the power to assign law in the US...therefor the worry expressed in the OP is much ado about nothing.
You will find tht it will be more acrimonious this time around. And mind you, I am not and was not an advocate of the agreement. Our international partners are advocating it as "legally binding". Now, we might be correct that it is not such by US law and they might be totally wrong. It will not help us though to make deals in the future, if we leave the impression of serious discussions and then seem to bail out. The effect on the politicians aside, the populations will be against us and they will influence policy as we are already experiencing from earlier unprofessional actions. That is, what you get from dilettante Presidents.