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What Happens If U.S. Quits Climate Deal?
AP via The Weather Channel ^ | May 31, 2017

Posted on 05/31/2017 11:34:05 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Earth is likely to reach more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. retreats from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution, scientists say. That's because America contributes so much to rising temperatures.

President Donald Trump, who once proclaimed global warming a Chinese hoax, said in a tweet Wednesday that he would make his "decision over the next few days" on whether the United States stays in or leaves the 2015 Paris climate change accord in which nearly every nation agreed to curb its greenhouse gas emissions.

Leaders of seven wealthy democracies, at a summit in Sicily, urged Trump to commit his administration to the agreement, but said in their closing statement that the U.S., for now, "is not in a position to join the consensus."

"I hope they decide in the right way," said Italy's prime minister, Paolo Gentiloni. More downbeat was German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said the leaders' talks were "very difficult, if not to say, very unsatisfactory."

In an attempt to understand what could happen to the planet if the U.S. pulls out of Paris, the Associated Press consulted with more than two dozen climate scientists and analyzed a special computer model scenario designed to calculate potential effects.

Scientists said it would worsen an already bad problem and make it far more difficult to prevent crossing a dangerous global temperature threshold.

Calculations suggest it could result in emissions of up to 3 billion tons of additional carbon dioxide in the air a year. When it adds up year after year, scientists said that is enough to melt ice sheets faster, raise seas higher and trigger more extreme weather.

"If we lag, the noose tightens," said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change.

(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climate; globalwarming; michaeloppenheimer; oppenheimer; parisaccords
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Bottom line: "We're all going to die!!"
1 posted on 05/31/2017 11:34:05 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
What Happens If U.S. Quits Climate Deal?

ANSWER: Nothing. Next question?

2 posted on 05/31/2017 11:35:44 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

$Billions of dollars are saved.


3 posted on 05/31/2017 11:40:05 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Alberta's Child
What Happens If U.S. Quits Climate Deal?

ANSWER: Nothing. Next question?

Well there would be some profits lost by Carbon Credit Traitors.

4 posted on 05/31/2017 11:40:07 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Yup.


5 posted on 05/31/2017 11:40:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Weather Channel is in full propaganda mode.


6 posted on 05/31/2017 11:40:35 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: Alberta's Child

What happens?

We close one of the many billions of dollars black holes that the idiot destructionists have us pouring our economy into.


7 posted on 05/31/2017 11:41:06 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Will dogs and cats live together?
Will there be mass hysteria?


8 posted on 05/31/2017 11:41:21 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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What Happens If U.S. Quits Climate Deal?

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It will make it harder for the global crooks to steal our money.


9 posted on 05/31/2017 11:42:13 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Chinese will invade us.


10 posted on 05/31/2017 11:42:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Scientists say.”

Which scientists say?


11 posted on 05/31/2017 11:42:42 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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When it adds up year after year, scientists said that is enough to melt ice sheets faster...


Baloney. First, even the north pole is increasing in ice. Second, CO2 is to global warming what ashes are to a fire. They are the result, not the cause.

This is really about controlling the entire population of the world by controlling the byproduct of pretty much all human activity.


12 posted on 05/31/2017 11:43:42 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
It's a damn hoax to pick the pockets of US taxpayers. Tell them to pound sand.
13 posted on 05/31/2017 11:43:44 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Answer: NOTHING. Let’s try it and see.


14 posted on 05/31/2017 11:44:16 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The entire earth will immediately burst into flame.

Everyone will die, but polar bear cubs will die first.

Democrat coastal cities will drown, but the water will not protect them from the flames, they will simply drown in boiling water. Dreamers will die first, because they are hiding in shadows and cannot seek higher ground for fear that ICE (how ironic) will get them.

Only a true James Bond villain would do something so radical and murderous as to withdraw from this peaceful treaty.

/s

15 posted on 05/31/2017 11:45:14 AM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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What happens if the U.S. quits the climate deal?

Take it away Kuni...

"NOTHING!! Absolutely NOTHING!!"

"STOO-PID!!! YOU SO STOO-PID!!!"

16 posted on 05/31/2017 11:46:05 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Let's not be so specieist. Humans have had a very long turn on this earth. Others are waiting.


17 posted on 05/31/2017 11:47:32 AM PDT by Yaelle (#IStandWithHannity)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Via the weather channel... really??

Have you watched the weather channel lately? It is telling you things your mother already taught you, with occasional apocolyptic predictions between aarp commercials.

These idiots are full of sage advice like stay inside if there is a thunderstorm and slow down during dust storms. And, there is always a torcon index 3 somewhere.

18 posted on 05/31/2017 11:47:45 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Earth is likely to reach more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. retreats from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution, scientists say.”

i stopped reading right there


19 posted on 05/31/2017 11:49:06 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen
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To: bboop
That's what they're really afraid of - that we'll pull out and nothing will happen because this emperor has no clothes.
20 posted on 05/31/2017 11:49:31 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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