Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Never mind he’s not even President yet – greens are already trying to pin the blame for the embarrassing slow motion collapse of the Paris Climate Agreement on US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump.
Trump’s Climate Change Denial Is Already Complicating the Paris Climate Deal
If Donald Trump wins and pulls the U.S. out of its climate change commitments, some countries wonder, why should they keep their own?
Donald Trump first shared his analysis of the climate crisis in a now infamous 2012 tweet-rant: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” he claimed.
The Republican presidential hopeful has since dialed back the rhetoric, calling that earlier claim a joke. But — as in other areas of critical domestic and international concern — he’s fallen short when pressed for specifics on what a Trump presidency would mean for energy and the climate. It seemed his oft-repeated phrase “trust me, I’ll get the best people“ was as close as the American public was going to get to details.
Until now.
The best Trump could find turns out to be climate denier and staunch fossil fuel backer Kevin Cramer, a two-term Republican congressman from oil- and coal-rich North Dakota. As a newly tapped energy adviser, Cramer recently handed the Trump campaign a four-page policy paper urging the candidate to scrap the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, among other regulations introduced by the EPA to curb pollution from the energy sector.
Trump promised to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement in an earlier speech.
Earlier this month, he told Reuters in an interview that he would renegotiate “at a minimum” the U.N. global climate accord agreed by 195 countries in Paris last December, saying he viewed the deal as bad for U.S. business.
He took that a step further in North Dakota. “We’re going to cancel the Paris climate agreement,” he said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-energy-idUSKCN0YH2D9
Everyone knows the Paris agreement was dead on arrival. President Obama’s desperation to get China on board, by granting a joke size concession, the Chinese “commitment” not to do anything about CO2 emissions until 2030, created an intolerable structural economic advantage. Add the ongoing split with Russia about the implementation of the Paris Accord, it was only a matter of time before the agreement collapsed.
In my opinion, Greens are well aware that the agreement was doomed from the outset. Now they’re just trying to save face, by trying to pin the blame on someone else, for their own political blunders.
Vote 1 the Don ,pity I’m an Aussie would rather vote for the Don than the idiots and lefties that we have .
Be proud America your choice is easier .
I have to agree with the comment above that this thread is really very interesting, since I have not been a Trump supporter. And so I must add to the thread.
Many would agree that President Ronald Reagan’s most effective Foreign Policy action occurred when he fired the US Air Traffic Controllers who failed to return to work from their illegal strike after he gave them a 48 hour deadline. His actions rattled many foreign leaders because they then knew that he really would follow through on his decisions.
I once had a boss who often used rough language in (all male) corporate meetings to draw attention to his points. I suggested to him one time that this approach might be self defeating, but he stated that it sped things up, since the discussion got to the actual conflicts much quicker. No polite bantering around the real issues.
If the idea of Trump being President rattles foreign leaders, then that is definitely a good thing, just like with Reagan. Trump’s verbally coarse responses typically follow my ex-boss’s pattern of getting right to the crux of the issue without the PC dancing around them, although they sometimes do go to the point of just being nasty. But his commitment to rescinding the Paris stupidity and EPA climate related regulations seems very sincere. Compared to the choice of electing as President a documented criminal and serial liar who will clearly take multiple actions that I vehemently oppose, how can I not vote for Trump?
They’re in the same vein as our second president John Adams. While he didn’t fight on the battlefield during the Revolution, he was very much “in the trenches” politically, wheeling and dealing with the colonial governments and the Continental Congress. Very practical and pragmatic, with a real love for debate; it’s been said his favorite form of conversation was an argument. He disdained feel-good abstractions, even those held by friends (like Jefferson). Pushed through an unpopular political deal (Jay’s Treaty) that he knew was politically suicidal but firmly believed was in the best interests of the nation (history has since proved him right).
Pretty confident that if Adams were around today, he’d be voting for Trump.
From early on, I noted that the internet was a wonderful place to disagree and argue without coming to blows, or, worse yet, agreement.
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“America Energy First ” The money that will flood into the United States will be Huge. The problem this has for countries in Sand Land is just as Huge. This would be the start of an American Renaissance the spin of industries would also huge. The exploding heads in the Carbon Mafia would be Massive.
It would be a veritable Tunguska Event.
Bedtime Story – The First 100 Days of A Donald Trump Presidency
Just FYI, I have seen several comments here and at other blogs regarding “Congress will never ratify the Paris Climate accord so it is meaningless”. Anyone who believes it is meaningless has been Grubered. Obama knows full well that the current Congress would never ratify the Paris Climate accord. That is why he put the enforcement mechanism in the TPP. The TPP is very likely to pass Congress because people like Paul Ryan Ted Cruz think is the best thing ever for the US. In reality, the TPP sets up a three person International Climate panel with full authority to levy fines amounting to billions per year if the Paris Climate accord and ALL EPA CO2 laws, including the CPP, are not strictly enforced in ALL 50 states. These billions would be payable to ANY member county that claims our CO2 is damaging their country or economy. Because Donald is steadfast AGAINST the TPP, that is why many of GOPe are NEVERTRUMPers.
And since I can’t edit my comment… will also add that this Climate Panel was given VETO power over any future changes to our EPA regulations to prevent a TRUMP from gutting the regulations. In addition, this panel rules on a simple 2/3 vote, with only ONE person allowed to be from or representing the US position.
Choice of candidate is actually simple. It depends which candidate is right about global warming. Having followed the science for some years now I can tell you that starting with Hansen all official predictions of warming have been false. This includes 26 years of failed climate models. A real science lab would have shut them down years ago but they are being kept alive at taxpayers’ expense for political purposes. Knowing this it is impossible to see how anyone could seriously side with this group but Clinton follows their line, Trump has adapted important features from Watts that I approve of. Clinton must know better what reality is but has decided to pander to climate change advocates. Clearly Trump wins on reality about climate and energy, no matter what you think of his other views.
When I got up this morning it was 11 Degrees, it’s now 1.30 pm and the temperature has risen to 24. I quickly made a graph of this and bugger me by Saturday I think we will all spontaneously combust.
I see Donald is not just best friends with Putin he is also loved by the North Koreans now.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/80608804/Donald-Trump-praised-by-North-Korean-state-media-as-wise-politician
Who would have thought a Republican presidential candidate would be so loved by the commies?
As our resident commie, I’d think you would love the next president.
DB
So you are telling me you are good with “Commie Donald?” Ain’t the world a funny place?
Re: Chinese & CO2 —
CO2 doesn’t matter, but the US emissions are flat or declining, while the Chinese’ are surging. But CO2 is benefitting the world’s plants, on which we all depend. No worries, mate. NO warming has been observed reliably attributed to it, but would be welcome. Deal.