Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart – President Trump’s EPA Head Scott Pruitt has given unequivocal support to cancelling US participation in the Paris agreement.
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Calls for ‘Exit’ of Paris Climate Agreement
by BEN KEW 14 Apr 20174273
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, has called for America to “exit” the Paris Climate Agreement signed by Barack Obama last November.
In an interview with FOX and Friends, Pruitt said that “Paris [agreement] is something that we need to really look at closely. It’s something we need to exit in my opinion.”
“It’s a bad deal for America,” he continued. “It was an America second, third, or fourth kind of approach. China and India had no obligations under the agreement until 2030. We front-loaded all of our costs.”
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On Thursday, Energy Secretary Rick Perry confirmed that his department is conducting a review of all energy policy, adding that it was “the right to do.”
Video of the Fox News interview is available here
Pruitt opposes the Paris Agreement. Perry opposes the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is bad for America, bad for the entire world.
Time to act on your campaign promise, Mr. President.
UPDATE (EW): Politico reports Trump Officials will meet next Tuesday, to hammer out a decision on what to do about the Paris Agreement.
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Until the US Senate ratifies it, the US is not a party to the agreement. Though it would be best if President Trump went through the motions of withdrawing.
This is a post normal reality Chris, as with the Iran deal it’s current policy. It’s a further blue print for ending the Republic and making America a vassal state to the global collective. It will be worse then the Federal Reserve when it’s over if it isn’t tossed out right now.
Trouble is there are already billions in phony crony culture jobs and interests, certainly a recessions worth if the fast ax fell on climate fraud. Do you really think Elon Musk doesn’t care about Tesla’s $7500 per car “emissions” Federal subside? Hence Trump soft peddles on the margins.
This crap has to stop. No more deals!
On the wind fraud front there has been some headway…
http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/industrynews/technology/6890744-181/tilting-at-windmill-fraud
Probably better politically to stay in it, but ignore all the obligations. That’s what all the other countries will end up doing.
Dr. Hansen thinks the Paris accords are a fraud,right? He has become a new kind of climate denier.
Here is a chilling statement by him
“Courts are crucial to the solution of the climate problem.”
So, no matter how much you dislike Trump, since the leftists (that’s all they are), will never give up, and will try to win by any means, you need the right person appointing the judges.
Read Commies by Ronald Radosh to understand the mindset.
According to the article 28 of the Paris agreement https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf
exit can be triggered on 4 Nov 2019 and will take effect after a year. Naturally, there may be other ways too.
Scott Pruitt, has called for America to “exit” the Paris Climate Agreement
Hang on. This was a done deal during the election and now it’s merely a recommendation?
If Trump does many more u-turns he’ll be rotating at 3500rpm
can you imagine what the other choice would have done?
Scott Pruitt is not the President. I’m glad he realizes it.
It may be a trial balloon, authorized by Trump.
There’s no reason for Trial balloons, he promised an exit for my vote. His advisers are divided but he hasn’t done the work it’s going to take to change the culture back to rational. I don’t see a skeptic science team, I don’t see a focus on eliminating academic propaganda on federal dollars.
Trillions of dollars depend on the climate fraud narrative. Can the policy be reversed without a huge economic shock? Then think about what left-wing social structures are going through, they are on a North Korean heard mentality in many sections. The Greenshirt narrative just isn’t going to reform itself or without huge costs.
I’m glad Pruitt said it but Trump has to put up and withdraw from Paris as he said he would before the “open mind” equivocation. If he retreats he might as well resign because it’s over as far as the core people who voted for him.
I think Rick Perry has also publicly said the U.S. should exit the Paris Agreement, although I don’t have a quote.
“If Trump does many more u-turns he’ll be rotating at 3500rpm”
U-turns? What U-turns?
That’s the current MSM narrative. You are buying it, I guess. Don’t you know that the MSM distorts the truth for political purposes? One of their aims is to destroy the confidence Trump’s supporters have in him by making him out to be a flip-flopper, and unreliable and unpredictable (in a bad way). Isn’t that just the tune they are playing now?
Of course, when someone like me asks for some evidence of such, I don’t get very much that has any substance. Looking for some red meat. Anybody got any?
“U-turns? What U-turns?”
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“On day one of a Trump administration, the US Treasury Department will designate China a currency manipulator,” https://www.wsj.com/articles/ending-chinas-currency-manipulation-1447115601
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4/12/2017: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39583571
““U-turns? What U-turns?”
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“On day one of a Trump administration, the US Treasury Department will designate China a currency manipulator,”
Well, in case you hadn’t noticed, China stopped manipulating their currency back in November after Trump got elected, so it would be kind of stupid for Trump to proclaim them a currency manipulator when they are not manipulating their currency, and it would be equally stupid for others to claim Trump has reversed himself on this subject if the Chinese are no longer manipulating their currency.
What is Trump’s goal with China? To harangue them? Or to get them to cooperate? It’s to get them to cooperate. He harangued them during the election about their currency manipulations, Trump got elected, the Chinese stopped their manipulation, and Trump got his cooperation and has no need to call China a currency manipulator.
Get it now? If you don’t, you are not alone, there are a whole lot of easlily imfluenced people out there buying into the MSM’s lies. This lie and the one about Trump reversing himself on NATO have gotten to the point of becoming accepted “truth” because the MSM has repeated these lies so often. Even Fox News hosts are repeating this lie. This false reality phenomenon of turning a lie into the “truth” is happening right in front of your eyes. Can you see it?
Trump’s detractors say he flip-flopped on his position on NATO. Here’s the real story: In order to understand Trump, you should probably read his book, “The Art of the Deal”. If you did, you would see that this NATO gambit of Trump’s is a classic tactic he uses.
Trump is not a stupid man. He knows NATO is vital to our and European security, but he saw they were getting lackadasical about dealing with their homegrown terrorism, and he saw they were shortchanging NATO’a defenses because most of the NATO nations were not meeting their obligations to spend two percent of their GDP on NATO defenses.
Trump says when you want to make a deal, the first thing you have to do is be able to walk away from the deal if it does not meet your requirements. And he doesn’t mean he just has to be ready in his own mind to walk, he means he wants the people he is dealing with to know that if they don’t make him happy in the deal, he’s walking out the door.
So what does Trump do with NATO? He starts off by saying they are obsolete and not taking terrorism or financing of NATO seriously, and he’s not sure he’s going to go along with this kind of situation. Well, the Europeans and a lot of whimpy Americans were just horrified at Trump’s statements. The uproar was loud.
But what did Trump get? Trump now has NATO nations putting new emphasis on terrorism, and promising to meet their financial obligations. Just what Trump wanted from them. The art of the deal.
Now Trump says NATO is no longer obsolete (because they are doing what he wants), and the MSM and his other political enemies say Trump has flip-flopped. Do you see how silly and wrong these people are?
Susequently, Trump has had his Secretary of State and his UN Ambassador read the riot act to Putin about his landgrabs in Eastern Europe, and Trump has moved an American military unit, in conjunction with other NATO allies into Poland where they will be permanently stationed at the point of any possible Russian attack into Poland. Eastern Poland is not the frontier of NATO. The Polish people couldn’t be happier with Trump.
Trump is playing hardball with the Russians. And with China, and with North Korea and with Syria and with Iran. It’s about time an American president played hardball. If you don’t play hardball, then the evil doers of the world will walk right over you.
“U-turns? What U-turns?”
“On day one of a Trump administration, the US Treasury Department will designate China a currency manipulator,”
Well, in case you hadn’t noticed, China stopped manipulating their currency back in November after Trump got elected, so it would be kind of stupid for Trump to proclaim them a currency manipulator when they are not manipulating their currency, and it would be equally stupid for others to claim Trump has reversed himself on this subject if the Chinese are no longer manipulating their currency.
What is Trump’s goal with China? To harangue them? Or to get them to cooperate? It’s to get them to cooperate. He harangued them during the election about their currency manipulations, Trump got elected, the Chinese stopped their manipulation, and Trump got his cooperation and has no need to call China a currency manipulator.
Get it now? If you don’t, you are not alone, there are a whole lot of easlily imfluenced people out there buying into the MSM’s lies. This lie and the one about Trump reversing himself on NATO have gotten to the point of becoming accepted “truth” because the MSM has repeated these lies so often. Even Fox News hosts are repeating this lie. This false reality phenomenon of turning a lie into the “truth” is happening right in front of your eyes. Can you see it?
“U-turns? What U-turns?”
“On day one of a Trump administration, the US Treasury Department will designate China a currency manipulator,”
China isn’t manipulating their currency. See my post a little earlier in this thread.
Expecting Trump to make the announcement on or before 22 April.
Jajajajajaja
It would be best to make the announcement before April 22, so as to be sure the message is delivered for maximum effect. Especially to knock the wind out of the sails of the earth day political diatribe. It needs absolute high priority that USA is not conforming to the CAGW hallucination. The sooner everyone gets this message around the world, the better.
Like hitting Syria with 59 hawks, while the President of China was sitting at his dinner table. Or hitting ISIS with the MOAB a day before North Korea 105th birthday bash where they probably planning a 6th nuclear test or a ICBM missile test.
Trump most definitely has perfect timing, and hopefully perfect pitch.
Currently on the AMAC website: https://amac.us/
Do you believe that man-made pollution is the cause for global warming?
92% NO
7,700 + votes.
GO mature Americans!
I like what Tim Ball says. How do we fight the war when we don’t identify the enemy. North/South Dialogue turned into Global Warming that turned into Climate Change.The globalist elite lead by Soros and the like want a one world system with themselves at the top.
If the U.S. Exits the rest of the dominos will fall. They are counting on our funding and no one else will step up if we don’t. Get out now. Focus on responsible, reliable and affordable energy. Lift people out of poverty and increase prosperity and health for many more. It’s time to focus on the needs and not the politics.
James Delingpole is concerned that Scott Pruitt may not the the man for the task of extricating the USA from the clutches of the EPA.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/27/delingpole-scott-pruitt-is-failing-to-drain-the-swamp-at-the-epa/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/10/delingpole-epas-obama-era-endangerment-finding-a-disgrace-to-science-menace-to-economy/
Fingers crossed mes enfants & keep your powder dry. It’s not over until Carbon Dioxide is reinstated as the harmless trace gas we know it to be.
I’ve been concerned since Tillerson’s confirmation statements of pandering to greens. Kushner is essentially a moneyball millennial democrat.
It’s over when the leadership goes hard not just on policy but when the society changes back to reason instead of emotionally based leftist narratives. Most skeptics can’t face the political reality of the climate movement as rule.
1.5 trillion of market cap ties to climate “green”, 2 million US jobs. It isn’t going to happen quickly as the malinvestment consequences are huge to correct.
Other then restoring a gold standard I can’t think of a single larger peacetime policy shock change then a full denunciation of the climate cartel.
The Trump administration should lower the boom on the Paris Climate Agreement by vowing to have no part in any of it, on the grounds that it was only implemented by a previous president by executive order. It was never ratified or agreed to by Congress or the Senate. And the courts should have nothing to say in Trump dumping the Paris Climate Agreement by his Executive Order to do so. Just say No!
Furthermore, Trump should be demanding to see hard science on the physics of CO2 radiative forcing as it pertains to this wacko idea that CO2 is now the principal force driving climate. The truth is that the radiative forcing from additional human caused CO2 only causes minute warming to the atmosphere or the earth/ocean, and is well within the margin of error of any natural forcing. This will all happen within 5-10 years anyway when the temperature doesn’t go up in lockstep with this trace invisible gas at 4/10 of 1% of the atmosphere. He could save the planet a lot of cash burn for no real result by stalling the stupidity of the Paris Climate Agreement. If the USA doesn’t participate, Paris is dead on arrival and the rest of the world will have to give it up. That would be real leadership.
This Climate Change Scam has to be stopped. Can enough people fight the Globalists who are pushing this insane agenda? IF not it will be vary bad for the human race, I mean the surfs.
USA should stay in the Paris Agreement because my Chinese associates are looking forward to the money and so am I. One of the advantages of being close to China and operating in the pollution control industry. By the way we fight pollution not C02; however, the lack of distinction has been and will continue to be a financial bonanza for us. Our special thanks to ‘scientists’ and Australian taxpayers and hopefully now US taxpayers. Seriously it’s a great growing industry and a real opportunity for anyone looking for a rewarding and profitable career.
Let’s not forget that the Paris agreement is just that: an agreement, not a treaty. So if the various signatories fail to meet their commitments, they can simply shrug them off and promise to do better next time, and that’s if there will even be a next time. When certain countries see that time-after-time these climate deals accomplish next to nothing, they’ll stop even signing up for them, especially since the money pledged to them could go much further much more for domestic issues like healthcare, education, infrastructure, job creation, etc.
Ed, it’s just another step along the road….the road to globalist hell that is. The IPCC promised the best “science” and look at where agenda took them. Paris, like the entire climate agenda, is a blueprint for a global central planning state.
It’s the reason for grasping at fake science authority in the first place.
It’s an abomination where American sovereignty was surrendered as well without Senate approval. It’s everything Trump should despise and part of the reason (fairly large I would say) he was elected. You can’t stay in Paris on the one hand and reform junk science political culture domestically at the same time. Do you think Tesla and solar rent seekers are going to have their subsides eliminated if the moral science authority (fraud of course) of Paris is allowed to stand??
This is why it’s important to Pruitt, EPA greenshirts and climate hustlers can’t be reformed as Paris stands in validation of all the forces he’s trying to curtail. A total contradiction of policy and completely out of step with real reform. Climate science as an actionable policy support is contrived and abusive on the face of it and that should be the administrations go to position.
Where is the skeptic science team on the lawn of the WH? I don’t see them, a very bad sign of where it’s going. Tesla near 50 billion market cap, all-time high, the money indicators spitting in skeptic faces and telling you they think Trump will sell them out. It’s an easy sell out since “jobs”, even fraud funded windmills and solar shtick as well as luxury cars at $7500 per car federal subside “jobs” are better then recession. He supports the corrupt, idiotic corn subsides (ethanol) as well which losses net energy in the process as just one of many vices. That can survive under the alliance of “energy self-sufficiency” for the US as it was the 70’s rationalization. It might be the survival model for many crony green industries if Climate Science gets crushed as it should. Ethanol is miserable but Climate is 1000x horrible in comparison long-term.
Look at the bright side. Although probably $9 of $10 spent by the UN is lost to theft and corruption, compared to the DC to theft and corruption it is not very much.
Mine too
Just change the name of it to the Paris Misunderstanding or the Paris White House Tango.
Trump should just submit it for ratification by the Senate, recommending they turn it down, and then, oops, the Senate said no, and only the Senate can bind the USA.
“It’s something we need to exit in my opinion.”
Thank heavens! For a while there we thought he might have ‘gone commie’ on us:
See this earlier comment concerning James Delingpole’s fears: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/04/14/epa-head-paris-agreement-its-something-we-need-to-exit-in-my-opinion/#comment-2476797
What is worrying, though, is what he has not said:
– that he will be recommending it to President Trump; and
– that although he has cited economic reasons for it, he has not labelled it as junk science or ideology masquerading as science.
Just as worrying is the expression ‘in my opinion’, which is totally out of place. Is he saying ‘this is just me but it is not Trump administration policy’?
The Trump administration is LITERALLY the last hope for the world. ‘Conservative’ governments in every other Western country have been too scared, too incompetent or too self-serving to roll back the Left’s agenda.
“The Trump administration is LITERALLY the last hope for the world.”
I don’t think that is overstating it too much, either. It’s serious.