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Trump’s America cancelling billions of dollars of UN climate payments apparently opens the way for totalitarian China to assume the moral high ground in global environmental diplomacy.
Trump Win Clears Way For China to Lead on Climate
The election of climate change skeptic Donald Trump as president is likely to end the U.S. leadership role in the international fight against global warming and may lead to the emergence of a new and unlikely champion: China.
China worked closely with the administration of outgoing President Barack Obama to build momentum ahead of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. The partnership of the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters helped get nearly 200 countries to support the pact at the historic meet in France’s capital.
By contrast, Trump has called global warming a hoax created by China to give it an economic advantage and said he plans to remove the United States from the historic climate agreement, as well as reverse many of Obama’s measures to combat climate change.
He has appointed noted climate change skeptic Myron Ebell to help lead transition planning for the Environmental Protection Agency, which has crafted the administration’s major environmental regulations such as the Clean Power Plan and efficiency standards for cars and trucks.
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Beijing is poised to cash in on the goodwill it could earn by taking on leadership in dealing with what for many other governments is one of the most urgent issues on their agenda.
“Proactively taking action against climate change will improve China’s international image and allow it to occupy the moral high ground,” Zou Ji, deputy director of the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy and a senior Chinese climate talks negotiator, told Reuters.
Zou said that if Trump abandons efforts to implement the Paris agreement, “China’s influence and voice are likely to increase in global climate governance, which will then spill over into other areas of global governance and increase China’s global standing, power and leadership.”
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Read more: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/trump-win-china-to-take-climate-leadership-role-20870
To me this ridiculous positioning of China as the new environmental champion is simply more evidence of the toxic anti-Americanism and anti-Western politics at the heart of the global climate movement, and the moral bankruptcy of some leading climate advocates.
China, which recently announced a three year plan to increase coal capacity by a whopping 20%, an entire Canada worth of carbon emissions, should have been treated as a pariah by the global climate movement. Instead, they are being lauded as heroes and international leaders.
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This is hilarious. China is playing them like a fiddle. The Paris-ites are desperate now though. They need to have a leader, and without the US, China has “nobly” agreed to step in. This allows the Climate Liars in Marrakesh to put on a brave face, and to say “See? We’re soldiering on, even without you”. The pretense is that they didn’t really need the US, but of course they did. Plus, the hope is to try to shame us into reconsidering.
Craig Rucker of C-Fact writes:
“I wish you could see the long faces of the climate activists and bureaucrats wandering around the UN climate summit here in Marrakech!
As I mentioned in my email to you late last week the Green Climate Left thought they had everything wrapped up for advancing their terrible Paris Agreement, only to have the Trump election throw a YUGE monkey wrench in their plans.”
Their depression is our delight!
Trump has called global warming a hoax created by China to give it an economic advantage
I’ve always assumed that it was welfare for the “Consultanting Class”
I think all countries should follow China’s lead . Do nothing about emissions for the next 15-20 years and then think about it. If that is taking the lead on climate change , let’s follow.
Here’s a funny comment from the Reason magazine site today:
Very funny … but I think Johnson was too busy trying to cram down on his geography, than to read an IPCC report and embrace ‘global governance’ (totalitarian state ‘led’ by China). I still wonder whether he can point to Aleppo on an atlas without flipping out in a fit, biting his tongue, and rambling about ‘illegal’ immigration, as if the concept of a national border was never sacrosanct to people such as Thomas Jefferson.
Libertarians in the modern sense are complete looney toons, and their left wing counterparts are just EVIL.
Go Trump !!! (love from Australia) The U.S.A, made the RIGHT choice. I’m a little jealous that you have people left in your country who love your country and national character (heartland) so much as to put their own reputation and fortunes on the line to fight for your freedoms and liberties … but I know that all modern wars against true Evil will be won or lost in the U.S.A., because it has forever been the same since 1776 !!! Your Electoral College system and diversity of States opinions, is unique in world history, and a testament to the wisdom of the men who spilled their blood to earn that beautiful, God given word: “NATION”.
Just like in Genesis, the Tower of Babel is falling, and everyone will now get their NATION, and this SECOND SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD came distinctly from the Rust Belt … and western countries around the world are now listening to the sound of that shot, and the globalists are scared sh*tless about the implications. Go Trump!!!
>>> “To me this ridiculous positioning of China as the new environmental champion is simply more evidence of the toxic anti-Americanism and anti-Western politics at the heart of the global climate movement, and the moral bankruptcy of some leading climate advocates.”
So true … the Chinese just see this agreement as a mechanism for their developed world competition to slit their own wrists whilst they continue to grow any way they can, whilst partnering up with western inner city moguls like Gore, Gates, Turner, and Buffett, who are selling their own nations out for a paycheck, and a future of sweatshops (if you were lucky to even get a sweatshop job).
These ‘Climate Saviors’ are the most intellectually and morally decrepit creatures to even walk the face of this planet, and Trump is exposing not only the hypocrisy and detached reality of the MSM and Establishments, but he’s literally stripped the clothes off of the Emperor WORLDWIDE for everyone to see the nakedness of this hubris.
GO TRUMP !!! (love from Australia)
Hey China…..you go for it!…..
Lead the world as the savior in “Climate Change” .
Kiss you economy bye, bye and oh btw…we know you’re just kidding anyway.
And darn, all those billions we were gonna make in “carbon credits”……