Posted on 06/04/2017 2:41:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
COLUMBUS, OH — President Donald Trump announced that the United States would pull out of the Paris Climate Accord on Thursday. The move has been met with mixed political reactions and has drawn the ire of frequent Trump opponent, Ohio Governor John Kasich.
The voluntary Paris Climate Accord was structured to reduce global carbon emissions, but Trump felt the deal unevenly impacted the American people. He said on Thursday that he was "elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not the citizens of Paris."
Kasich took to Facebook to decry the move, saying America's withdrawal from the agreement was tantamount to relinquishing the nation's status as a global leader. He added, "the Trump Administration should have worked to improve the treaty from within."
The governor was quick to note that he was not happy with the original agreement and believed then-President Barack Obama could have done more to create a bipartisan American voice in the accord.
"But, I know that climate change is real. It is a global issue and will need a global agreement to address. And we could have negotiated that agreement in ways that would not needlessly destroy jobs," Kasich said in his statement.
He then outlined three main ways he felt the current administration could have improved the Paris Climate Accord, writing that:
- The largest emitters of greenhouse gases could have been asked to commit to concrete, obligatory reductions in emissions;
- The agreement could have targeted the root cause of global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, instead of an indirect measure such as aggregate global temperature; and
- More thorough analysis of the costs and the benefits could have provided greater assurance that jobs were not unnecessarily being put at risk.
"A properly negotiated agreement could actually have ended up driving innovation and creating jobs," Kasich wrote. "By withdrawing from the agreement, the Administration has passed up an opportunity both to expand U.S leadership in clean energy technology and to create well-paid American jobs with a future."
For his part, Trump called the agreement "draconian." He said the deal did not do enough to curb emissions from rapidly industrializing nations like India and China, and hampered American economic growth. Nevertheless, he said he cares deeply about the environment and that the U.S. will be "the cleanest" country going forward, with the cleanest air and the cleanest water."
To read more about Trump's comments on the Paris Climate Accord, and international reaction to the U.S.'s decision, click here.
Other Ohio politicians weren't as verbose in their responses to news of the U.S.'s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.
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Republican Senator Rob Portman has yet to issue an official statement on the decision.
The state's representatives mostly divided along party lines, with Democrats like Tim Ryan calling pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord a "bad idea" while Republicans like Jim Jordan said it was the "right thing."
Son of a mail man. Dusty Kasich
The word on the street is he has a decent chance of taking out Sherrod Brown if he gets the nod to run in that race. That would be a blue to red flip and on balance probably a net gainer for our side. Sherrod Brown’s voting record is left of Obama and Bernie Sanders.
Give that dirtbag a piece of pizza.
Ohioians should hang their collective heads in shame.
Gov. Kasickinthehead, why not join the Democrats? If you do, you can be a real ass, not a RINO ass...
John Kasich is an oxygen thief.
The Senate voted down Kyoto around 1998. It was a 95-0 vote.
“greenhouse gas emissions”
The main one being water vapor, and with 71% of the earth covered with water, that one cannot be affected by the Paris Treaty.
The ankle biting tool speaks.
Due to the massive loss of manufacturing jobs Ohio’s economy would be in the doldrums but for the new energy technology known as fracking. This saved Ohio’s chestnuts, but if you listen to Kasuck, he and he alone was responsible for Ohio’s rebounding economy. He represents the result of good fortune and not the cause of same.
Kasich = Globalist Turd
Maybe that’s the way to go here, if it hasn’t been done. Put it to a vote. Call the roll, get them on record.
Thank you. That was very enlightening.
I told a few liberals that a few days ago on a sports site, those morons threaten to ban me....
“This asshole is almost as annoying and stupid as McCain.”
The Johns - all three of them. McCain, Kasich, Boehner.
He needs to shovel some of that crap out of his mouth he eats.
kasich continues to reassure us that he is an absolute idiot. What an embarrassment to the human race and to civil society.
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