Posted on 06/03/2017 8:05:07 AM PDT by ColdOne
Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday the United States will pursue unilateral efforts to curb greenhouse emissions, despite pulling out of the Paris accord.
As he welcomed Brazil's Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes to Washington, Tillerson boasted that the US has a "terrific record" in reducing the emissions blamed for global warming.
But, in a nod to concerns that US global leadership has been damaged by the decision to quit the Paris deal, he urged partners "to keep it in perspective."
Reports suggest Tillerson was one of the advisors who counselled President Donald Trump not to pull Washington from the accord, fearing a blow to US influence abroad.
But if that was the case, the former oil executive put a brave face on the decision, which has seen Europe and China pull together to renew their support for the 2015 agreement.
"That was a policy decision," Tillerson told reporters.
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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.
So poinq wants us to perpetuate the hoax? Bizarre. Truth is, check with US Energy Infirmation Administration, natural gas has increased markedly as a percentage of sources for US electricity production. Not to “reach C02 targets” but economics. Check the cost per KWh of every other source. So our C02 reaction really has nothing to do with perpetuating the hoax. So why not say so? Just one more thing I don’t understand.
It's the quality that COULD be conditioned into a child, but is intentionally ignored.
Our nation USED TO rear children that were responsible and socially acceptable.
Red lights and stop signs are for people that don't know how to drive.
Hey Don! Why is this idiot part of your administration?
You are exactly right. Add to that the fact that even if the US stayed in and did everything the accord said, the climate or “warming” would only decrease by .05 degrees by 2025. But, the US would have put trillions of taxpayer dollars in the slush fund. Bad deal, even if one believes in global warming
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.
So far as carbon dioxide is concerned, it is no pollutant at all.
Even if it rises to some three or four times its present atmospheric levels, it would not affect either the warming of the overall temperature of the planet, or cause any negative affect on most animal life.
But plant life would thrive enormously under the supercharged effects of the “excess” carbon dioxide, turning it into a number of different complex compounds known as carbohydrates, or the similar carbon compounds known as lipids.
Oh, yeah, and in the process, these plants also release the second most corrosive element in the universe, oxygen, which would not exist in a free state without the intermediary steps of photosynthesis, exercised on such a vast scale that this “greenhouse gas” now comprises some 20% of Earth’s atmosphere.
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?
Thank God we won this one & not Rex and Ivanka. I just wished Trump would declare war on the hoax so we could have some honest science thrown at this. Yes Trump has a lot on his plate but this climate crap is as big as health care to the left. It is the key to power, control and unlimited funding. I think it was Lenin who said Health Care and the Environment were the keys to controlling the people.
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.
Anyone who buys into the greenhouse gas/AGW BS is suspect in my book. It shows a lack of critical thinking. He seems pretty good in foreign affairs but this climate crap dangerous to the countrie’s well being.
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.
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