Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate advocates have boasted about physically bullying President Trump, and are hurling vile insults at President Trump and the USA in general, over Trump’s refusal to date to endorse their climate bully pact.
Trump Delays Final Decision On Paris Agreement Until Next Week
28/05/2017 2:11 PM AEST | Updated 28/05/2017 2:11 PM AEST
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Sources told HuffPost this month that Trump was leaning toward withdrawing. But since then, world and corporate leaders have increased pressure for the U.S. to remain in the deal. During his first visit to the Vatican this week, Pope Francis gave Trump a 184-page letter on climate change.
In the president’s best-known business book The Art of the Deal, he outlines a strategy for negotiating based on making aggressive opening salvos. Vowing to withdraw could be an initial step toward reworking the Paris Agreement to get what his administration considers more favorable terms.
Pulling out of the agreement could have major economic consequences. The U.S. could lose jobs in a clean energy industry estimated to be worth $6 trillion by 2030. Countries could put a tariff on American-made imports. And investors could sour on the U.S. amid what they see as instability sown by sclerotic regulation of carbon emissions.
The diplomatic ramifications could be worse. Quitting the deal could brand the nation as a “rogue country“ and a “climate pariah” as it loses its seat at the negotiating table on global climate policy. Moreover, the U.S. risks ceding global influence to rival superpower China, which has already promised to support poorer countries’ efforts to adapt to climate change.
“Trump has heard now very clearly from world leaders, CEOs, and even the Pope,” David Waskow, director of international climate policy for the World Resources Institute, told HuffPost by email. “It’s time for him to make the right decision.”
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The Australian National University, which seems to think “the ends justify the means” when it comes to the climate cause, also joins the growing wave of insults against the USA;
Paris Agreement safer with the US out: Climate observer
ELEANOR HALL: One close observer of international climate negotiations says it would in fact be preferable were President Trump to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement.
Dr Luke Kemp is no climate change denier. He is a lecturer in International Relations and Environmental policy at the Australian National University, and he joined me earlier.
Dr Kemp welcome to The World Today.
LUKE KEMP: Good to be here Eleanor.
ELEANOR HALL: Now European leaders are warning that the US should not abandon the Paris Agreement, but you argue that it would be better for international action on climate if the US were to withdraw. Why?
LUKE KEMP: Well it’s really quite simple, the US as a rogue administration can do much more damage inside of the agreement, than it can do outside of the agreement.
All you’re doing by keeping the US inside of it is gifting greater leverage to a recalcitrant administration.
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Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2016/s4676829.htm
This is not the first time greens have called the USA a rogue state to try to get this way. The following from back in November, shortly after Donald Trump won the Presidency;
US will be a ‘rogue state’ if Trump backtracks on climate: UN envoy
Published on 16/12/2016, 9:07am
Former Ireland president Mary Robinson says incoming administration must live up to the country’s commitments or be ostracised
By Ed King
Governments, civil society and faith groups must unite and condemn the US if the incoming Donald Trump administration pulls out of the Paris Agreement and stops climate funds.
That’s the view of Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, the UN’s envoy for El Nino and La Nina and a long-term advocate of tougher climate policies.
“If the Trump administration does not live up to its Paris commitments in whatever way – by increasing emissions, looking for oil or failing to support the Green Climate Fund – it must be called out as a rogue state,” she said.
“It’s just not acceptable: countries came to an agreement in Paris. The situation of the world could be grossly worsened – the window to act is short yet the opportunities there are good.”
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Climate advocates have also suggested that the age of mutual cooperation with the USA is over;
Merkel, After Discordant G-7 Meeting, Is Looking Past Trump
By ALISON SMALE and STEVEN ERLANGERMAY 28, 2017
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Europe’s most influential leader, has concluded, after three days of trans-Atlantic meetings, that the United States of President Trump is not the reliable partner her country and the Continent have automatically depended on in the past.
Clearly disappointed with Mr. Trump’s positions on NATO, Russia, climate change and trade, Ms. Merkel said in Munich on Sunday that traditional alliances were no longer as steadfast as they once were and that Europe should pay more attention to its own interests “and really take our fate into our own hands.”
“The times in which we could rely fully on others — they are somewhat over,” Ms. Merkel added, speaking on the campaign trail after a contentious NATO summit meeting in Brussels and a Group of 7 meeting in Italy. “This is what I experienced in the last few days.”
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The new French president, Emmanuel Macron, has shown a willingness to work with Germany and to help lead the bloc out of its troubles. And Ms. Merkel sees Germany’s future more and more with the European Union of 27 nations, without Britain after its vote to leave the bloc.
“This seems to be the end of an era, one in which the United States led and Europe followed,” said Ivo H. Daalder, a former United States envoy to NATO who is now the director of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “Today, the United States is heading into a direction on key issues that seems diametrically opposite of where Europe is heading. Merkel’s comments are an acknowledgment of that new reality.”
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/world/europe/angela-merkel-trump-alliances-g7-leaders.html
The attempt to bully the USA isn’t just verbal; President Macron of France seems to have admitted that he intentionally tried to physically hurt President Trump with his infamous G7 “handshake”.
Mr. Macron told the French news media that his now-famous handshake tussle with Mr. Trump was a deliberate effort to show that he could not be pushed around by the American president. He told the Sunday newspaper Journal du Dimanche that it was “a moment of truth” — designed to show that he is no pushover, and a message for the European Union leadership, as well.
“My handshake with him — it wasn’t innocent,” Mr. Macron said. “One must show that you won’t make small concessions, even symbolic ones, but also not over-publicize things, either.”
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Read more: Same link as above
Video of the infamous handshake incident
All this in my view demonstrates how toxic and dysfunctional the international political environment has become.
The world is facing real threats, real unstable rogue states actively deploying chemical weapons against their own people, rogue states attempting to acquire long range nuclear capability. The day when terrorists or unstable lunatics acquire the ability to destroy entire Western cities with nuclear bombs may almost be upon us.
But instead of responding to President Trump’s call to pull together, to deal with those real threats, climate advocates hurl insults at the USA and apparently try to physically bully President Trump, to prevent the almost undetectable 0.3C of warming which might occur by the end of the century if the USA withdraws from the job destroying Paris Agreement.
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I will give President Trump a pretty wide birth as it relates to his promises, but if he breaks this one, I’m done.
I’m absolutely ecstatic the Left is going all in on the CAGW sc@m.
Under strict adherence to the scientific method, CAGW is already a disconfirmed hypothesis given the gigantic disparities and duration between CAGW’s hypothetical projections on everything vs. reality ( global temps, Sea Level Rise, CH4 projections, extreme weather incidence, ocean pH, precipitation, Antarctic land ice, global crop yields, etc.,)
The more the Left pushes this disconfirmed political phenomenon (it’s not a physical one) the bigger the blowback will be when it all crashes and burns within about 7 years. Over the next four years: the AMO & PDO will both be in their respective 30-year cool cycles (global temps ALWAYS fall when this happens), the North Pacific “The Blob” is gone, the current solar cycle is the weakest since 1906 and is quickly approaching its weakest point of the current cycle, the next solar cycle from 2021 will be the weakest since 1790, and the one after that will be the weakest since 1645, and likely the start of 50~100 year Grand Solar Minimum.
In the US, Leftists have lost 1,200 seats in Local, State and Federal elections, have lost control of the Senate, House and Presidency, and their national power base is the weakest it’s been since the 1920’s.
Trump has an incredible opportunity this week to hold fast and officially pull out of the Paris Agreement.
I personally think he’ll capitulate and agree to cut CO2 emissions by a lesser extent than Obama committed to, but lower them none the less….
The GOP never fails to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity–to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
And so it goes…..until, it doesn’t…
The USA became the USA because it was such a “rogue ” nation and in about 300 years became the most powerful , creative nation on earth . Playing along with Europe has done nothing but get USA service men and women drawn into saving Europe’s ass over and over .
Next time who they going to call ? Certainly not the rogue nation they smirk at .
I guess all those laggards who don’t even pay their agreed to share of NATO are rouge nations too .
Who would want a seat at any table with countries that live off the security contributions of USA tax payers ?
What would NATO look like if the USA made a percentage contribution of
Canada for example . Why are the under payers at “the table ” at all ?
They claim to be so keen to finance a massive tax payer funded fraud to control the earths thermostat yet won’t pay for their citizens security . Sad . Why would the USA want to sit with such losers .
And look how well it turned out after the U.S. “led from behind.”
Screw all the socialists, commies, and anti-Americans. If you don’t like America, just do without us the next crisis. I’m sure Angela will deflect the rapists.
Based on those comments in the story, Trump’s best course is the submit the Paris Accords to the Senate
For all the billions of pages of bloviating in the press about climate, I NEVER read about real temperature data and their relation to emissions. Argument from authority after argument from authority interrupted only by speculation passing as facts. And in all those billions of pages NOWHERE will I read a cost benefit analysis of actions they claim we must take.
I would have thought eventually one of these brain dead journalists would try to use facts and arguments to persuade me and then discover how flimsy the AGW case really is. But it appears they are even too lazy to try to convince anyone they are right.
Journalism is dead.
But you DO have cost-benefit analyses, Dave.
Just look at the 300-year projections for determining the EPA’s U.S. Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) estimates. While the benefits of carbon (CO2) are estimated to be positive until close to the end of the 21st Century, extrapolating with our climate and econometric models beyond the year 2100 AD leads to net economic harms related to man’s CO2 production, if we look out to 2300 AD.
How in the world could you argue against a consensus based on such science?
The point I have not seen reported and the thing literally everyone seems to have missed is the Paris agreement requires at least 55% of the World emissions to be covered for it to go into effect. USA is 20% and the original signups only represented 80% …. 80%-20% = 60%. So it brings the whole Paris agreement to the edge of failing if more small countries don’t ratify. If the USA pulls out you need countries like Russia (7.5%) and Iran (1.3%) to make up the shortfall and they have not ratified the agreement.
The status is pretty up todate in Wikipedia including the percentages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement
USA pulling out of the Paris agreement could well lead to the death of the Paris agreement under it’s own instrument of creation.
Good info. thanks
No, they already have the 55%.
Clearly the AGW advocacy is comprised, to an enormous extent, of self-serving activists who profit materially from its continuation and growth. No surprise there. The (sobering) surprise is the size of the movement, even though it does not have a ‘defensible’ scientific leg to stand on, and how entrenched it has become in such a short time. It appears that the scientific community’s meekness; it’s unwillingness to stand up and (ethically) defend the honesty inherent in the scientific principle, has allowed this to happen. Big job to reestablish the missing integrity.
Eric Worrall
I guess it being memorial day i am a bit testy.
Eric we have dealt with obnoxious German leaders. Who are they to call us a rogue nation.
As for the French, I think our reply should be continuation of the one asked of Charles de Gaulle in 1966 by LBJ.
Please look at the link if you are not familiar with the tale.
michael
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/375563-ask-him-about-the-cemeteries-dean-in-1966-upon-being
Oh, very good! I’d not heard of that story. Good for LBJ! Anything that embarrasses the French is a good thing.
Almost as good as the recent response by SecDef Mattis to the inane question, “what keeps you awake at night?”
His answer: “Nothing. I keep other people awake at night.”
Mike the Morlock
New to me. Excellent!
Eugene WR Gallun
Anybody that doesn’t understand America’s exceptionalism will, in ignorance, become part of world socialism’s work to bring down human advancement around the globe.
Socialists like Merkel do not want humans to direct their own lives. The (East) German state must direct human activities. They hate America; the collectivist must rule.
The degenerates of Western Europe are allowing their cultures to be destroyed and their women raped and their children murdered. Instead they are angry because our President disagrees with them about the “climate”. The current international system really is sick and dysfunctional.
The NOAA annual measurement conference this week , https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/annualconference/ , opened with a painfully stupid keynote by Richard Alley on how the ice sheets might melt and sea level sneak up on us like a black swan devastating the coasts ala Katrina .
The strength of ego Trump must muster to stand up against the global statist establishment to reject Paris and the entire self serving religion behind it is awesome .
Of course they hate him . They literally would assassinate him if they could .
NOAA, who just declared their number of predicted tropical storms for the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, of 11-17, to be “above average,” while admitting average is 12?
“LUKE KEMP: Well it’s really quite simple, the US as a rogue administration can do much more damage inside of the agreement, than it can do outside of the agreement.”
I think that would be the only reason Trump would decide to keep the US within the agreement. There’s still a chance he might go in that direction…something to think about.
“An unlimited market, Mr. Rearden?” the purchasing manager asked dryly.
Rearden glanced up at him. “I guess I’m not smart enough to make the sort
of deals needed nowadays,” he said, in answer to the unspoken thoughts that
hung across his desk.
The purchasing manager shook his head. “No, Mr. Rearden, it’s one or the
other. The same kind of brain can’t do both. Either you’re good at running
the mills or you’re good at running to Washington.”
“Maybe I ought to learn their method.”
“You couldn’t learn it and it wouldn’t do you any good. You wouldn’t win
in any of those deals. Don’t you understand? You’re the one who’s got
something to be looted.”
Who would have thought that Professor James Hansen and President Trump would agree that the Paris Agreement was a” fraud” and a “farce”?
Screw them let them use thier brownshirt Nazi tactics we will remember them the next time they need help. No to the Paris climate agreement with drawl totally.
The USA can put trade bans on countries too in retaliation for their mindless tariffs. Then the USA can create jobs making the products the criminal multinational corporations moved to tax haven jurisdictions.
How are you guys going over there with the Trump Derangement Syndrome?
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/no-president-deserves-this-comedian-kathy-griffin-slammed-for-gruesome-trump-stunt/news-story/e823f8e0eee2ae804a9087eef9c310c9
What is it with these fruitcakes?