Posted on 06/01/2017 5:01:39 AM PDT by blam
The president is expected to formally announce this week that the U.S. will exit the Paris climate agreement, a move that will have negligible impact on the environment but will have major benefits for the U.S. economy. The Paris climate agreement was deeply flawed from its start. It was legally and constitutionally suspect, based on politics rather than science, and contained unrealistic goals. It promised not only a dramatic expansion of the administrative state and a huge increase in the regulatory burden on American businesses, it threatened to put the brakes on U.S. economic output at a time when most economists think the U.S. will struggle to achieve even a meager two percent growth.
It’s likely that it was already acting as a drag on the U.S. economy. After President Barack Obama unofficially committed the U.S. to the Paris agreement, businesses began preparing for its impact. Knowing that it would diminish U.S. economic output, businesses invested less and directed more investment toward less-productive technology to meet the climate deal’s mandates. Banks and financier withdrew capital from sectors expected to suffer under the climate deal and pushed it toward those expected to benefit. A classic example of regulation-driven malinvestment.
The Paris climate agreement was adopted on December 12, 2015 at the conclusion of the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference. Parties to the agreement are expected to begin taking measures to reduce emissions in 2020, mainly by enacting rules that sharply reduce carbon emissions. Countries are supposed to publicly announce “Intended Nationally Determined Contributions” to combat climate change and periodically report on their progress. The Obama administration announced the U.S. would commit to reduce emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025...
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How is the “Paris agreement” different from the “Kyoto agreement”?
Seems like a repackaging of the same line of BS and fake science.
Not a treaty.
An Obama executive decision.
The thing about that...
——But a rule is a rule. And everyone must respect it. -—
The Euros and China have no thoughts of obeying the rules. Their goal is to make others obey. Hypocrisy, thy name is Germany and France and now China
I think it was Rush who I heard emphasize that it was a treaty on his radio program yesterday.
when the average temperature goes up 3.25 degrees F... they say it is all over.
WTCovfefe?
nothing like ignoring the historic record of a warmer planet in the name of science.
please, please, please Mr. Trump. Pull out of the Paris Accords and help show the world this madness needs to end.
Bizarrely, both are “correct”.
It was written up as a treaty, but Brak Ubama agreed to it unilaterally without going through the proper channels for a treaty.
Thus, it is both a treaty and not a treaty.
And since it was agreed to unilaterally and improperly, it can be done away with just as easily.
Blip of a phone and stroke of a pen and all that.
Brak has gotta be upset by that.
Rush was pointing out that it is a treaty in every way...except that the senate did not get to act on it. I blame Barry and the spineless Rinos for that. But since it wasn’t ratified by the senate, its quite easy for Trump to ball it up and throw it in the trash.
It’s not a treaty.
It was never ratified by the Senate per the US Constitution
That’s the point.
It was written as a treaty, but never taken through the proper channels for a treaty.
So.. yeah.
But if Trump doesn't get us out of it we are JUST as screwed up as if it was an actual treaty!!!
Pretty much.
Hoping he does, and I hope he reminds the left of “I have a pen and a phone.”
A bold claim. I'd like to see Carney provide some data to back it up.
So let them! It ain’t our money they will be squandering!
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