Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Reuters reports that an unnamed official has stated that President Trump will not receive an invitation to the Paris Climate Change Summit in December.
Trump not invited to Paris December climate change summit for now, says France
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, who pulled his country out of the 2015 Paris climate change deal, is “for the time being” not invited to a climate change summit due to be held in the French capital in December, an official in President Emmanuel Macron’s office said.
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The United States would still be invited to the summit but at a lower level than the president, added the official.
President Macron of France, who once bizarrely stated he would “govern like a Roman God”, who also according to his officials believes that his thought processes are too complex for mere journalists to understand, no doubt considers the provisional banishing of President Trump from his presence to be a devastating rebuke for the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
President Trump isn’t invited to COP23?… I’m trying, and failing, to figure out why this a bad thing… I wonder if it’s a reverse psychology thing… Please Br’er Fox, please don’t throw me into that briar patch.
France and Paris are OK. Trouble is it is full of French speaking people, oh wait, no Arabic, sorry, my bad!
But Marcon invited Trump to Paris for St. Bastille Day on July 14th, which Trump accepted and attended. They had a bash the likes that Paris hadn’t seen in some time. And that was after Trump had already exited the Paris Accord. So what has changed? I suspect Marcon is trying to shame Trump back into the Paris agreement, perhaps offering up some compromise if the USA stays in if it can get some significant changes. Note that the non invite only applies ‘for now’. Stay tuned…
They can invite Hilliary, and then take up a collection after dinner to pay for their plans. I bet they don’t get enough to pay for dinner.
She could do a book signing.
Hillary’s books end up being sold for less than a cord of wood. (And wood can at least provide warmth, which is more than I can say of her books.)
RR, did you try burning one? There ought to be significant calorific value in one I shouldn’t wonder.
Buy one of those sordid burps of distortion and give her sales stats a noticeable bump? Not on your life.
Besides, I didn’t say her book wouldn’t burn–I said it lacked warmth or any trace of humanity.
On the other hand, other books and magazines I’ve tried to burn just to recycle them were horrendously difficult to combust.
Have YOU tried that experiment?
Oh my. Dis-invited to a social. I’m sure this will bother Trump to no end. I think he rather likes being the “last country in the world” not to participate in the Paris Whatever It’s Called. They’re figuring they can string the rest of the world along for 3 more years and hope for a change in Presidents. After all the planning and effort put into the CAGW scam a 3 year wait is a bump in the road for them. After all, no country is delivering to the agreement anyway so what could it hurt? But without the money how will they fulfill their promise of wealth redistribution? Most of the countries signed up can wait because they have nothing to lose but the few donor countries are all that is keeping the agreement together. Will they wait while the top economy in the world opts out and the second economy is a receiver? Why should or would they?
OMG.
Who is going to pay for the champers and canapés?
Can a confluence of this magnitude survive on tea and bikkies alone?
They won’t run out of wine. I once stayed a week in Lespignan, France. They served wine using gasoline pumps, BYO plastic container.
And barf bags for the hangover.
My advice to the president is to issue an executive order that prohibits the spending as much as one dime on any activity even remotely connected with this nonsensical conference.
At least Trump won’t have to worry about getting another one of those queer handshakes again…
Um, boo hoo?
Excellent. It’s now officially acknowledged Paris accord doesn’t bind USA in any way.
Except for the ‘We Are Still In’ coalition of businesses, states and cities which recently confirmed its membership has doubled to 2,584 signatories.
(The group was set up in the wake of President Trump’s controversial decision to quit the Paris Agreement, in a bid to demonstrate that many parts of US society remained committed to the international accord’s goals)
And those signatories are more than welcome to spend their own money any way they want.
By the way, the number you cite as “many parts of US society” is about 10% of the population of the tiny city of Venice, FL.
Be sure to send Kim Jong-un a list of the ones that are nuclear free zones while you’re at it.
Perfect. CACA faith should be voluntary everywhere.
How many were pledging their own money?
The forecasts are suggesting that it will be cold this year, blaming a La Nina, so if the forecast is correct (an unlikely event), it could be fun. Another Copenhagen irony, where so called leaders discuss concerns over a boiling globe, whilst freezing their b*ll*cks.
Let’s hope it is a popcorn moment.
That’s OK President Trump is busy trying to solve real problems . Enjoy the all inclusive vacation
holiday on the tax payers dime . Canada will make up for it . How many going this time ? 100 + .
Now if N Korea decides to light a few nukes up there will be a very quick change in temperature
as it is turned to burnt toast .
If Macron invited the heads of states of the full members of Paris Accord, he can shake hands with Kim Jong-un, Hugo Chávez, Bashar al-Assad, Raúl Castro, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Hun Sen et al instead.
He’ll have to dig up Hugo Chavez before shaking hands.
SteveT
Mea culpa, albeit anything is possible in CACA.
Anything for the cause.
President Trump should accelerate cessation of all international climate funding that the U.S. past. I believe the U.S are still paying horrific amount that damage themselves.
It sounds like the US is not invited because he is like the uncle not invited to the family get together because he will not pick up the tab!
If this climate summit is as useful as previous one’s then President Trump would not want to waste his time at it anyway.
…President Trump should wear this rejection as a badge of honor.
If they really cared about how much CO2 enters the atmosphere via the burning of fossil fuels then they would hold the summit over the Internet, on line so that people do not have to leave theri homes. The technology is already in place.
Foodstuff production benefits greatly from increased CO2. These buffoons unwittingly reveal their stupidity every time they denigrate that glorious gas.
He will not be coming to the UK either, State visit or not. It may be difficult for US citizens to comprehend how unpopular the current POTUS is in the rest of the world. A right wing President forming a destructive alliance with a Right wing Russian president really does cause concern to anyone who sees how Putin operates. Trump appears to have a wish to be the Putin of the Potomac, an idea which should give everyone pause for thought.
Indeed in CACA circles the world seems to have only two choices: national and international socialism.
This is a comment from a UK newspaper.
“Trump has withdrawn from the Paris climate accords and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. He has threatened to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal, angering European allies who see America going back on its word. He has vowed to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He has left key State Department positions unfilled, impairing America’s ability to understand the rest of the world. And his blustery rhetoric on North Korea has raised fears of nuclear war.
“It’s the worst of all worlds,” said Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. “The United States is continuing to intervene in various places … but we’re now doing it with an incompetent president. And this will not end well.”
The biggest difference between Trump and his predecessors, Walt argued, is Trump’s seeming disregard for foundational American values such as freedom, democracy and equal rights. That, combined with ease around thuggish authoritarian presidents including Vladimir Putin in Russia and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, directly undermine America’s standing in the world.”
Surely among 7 billion people there is still a fistful paying for, reading and commenting in Murdoch’s CACA products.
Gareth, I don’t think ‘Huffpo’ counts as a ‘UK newspaper’. Perhaps that explains why you didn’t name it. Don’t count me in your list of Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers.
Gareth,
What a bizarre non-factual spew by yet another academic.
Academia has profoundly failed it’s task of educating and research and devolved into reactionary indoctrination.
It may difficult for people that trust official medias to understand how POPULAR trump is my part of the world.
He is indeed unpopular among brainwashed old women, who still trust government-paid media (LOL!) when they paint him sexist, racist, dumb, russian-puppet, warmonger, and whatever.
But youngsters that have rather use internet (and laugh at official medias, as everyone should) find him a funny kicking-ass guy
I’m sure he is…
But Trump is not popular in large parts of the world, especially in Europe. There would be massive street protests against a visit in the UK
And the Trump/pro-coal/climate skeptic thing is even less popular… it is widely seen as absurd and US as nobbled by fossil fuel lobbyists
Just like when large parts of Europe narched to a consensus a while ago.
And it is so obvious which side you would choose,.
Griff November 9, 2017 at 3:43 am
“But Trump is not popular in large parts of the world, especially in Europe. There would be massive street protests against a visit in the UK”
At least you, unlike the American Democrats, are able to acknowledge one of the main reasons for the popularity of Trump in America.
Grff, Like the ‘massive street protests’ against Brexit no doubt (the usual sad collection of lunatics and exhibitionists).
I’m not sure you’re correct about that, Griff… Brexit has increased in popularity to roughly 80% in the UK. Maybe they’re changing their tune when it comes to the marquis of Brexit in the US, President Donald J. Trump.
Griff writes,
“But Trump is not popular in large parts of the world, especially in Europe. There would be massive street protests against a visit in the UK”
They can whine all they want,but America is NOT forcing England or other countries to leave the Paris Accords, therefore you can drop your hypocritical bashing of America for not being a part of the accords.
“And the Trump/pro-coal/climate skeptic thing is even less popular… it is widely seen as absurd and US as nobbled by fossil fuel lobbyists.”
Your popularity/funding drivel is so old now, that it is a sign of your lack of an argument on anything. You are obviously hostile to my President because he looks America first.
Why can’t you jackasses stop bashing us so much,the nation that saved your asses in TWO World Wars, the wars America at first tried hard to stay out of…… The same nation that in the last few years of WW2 gave you the military and food stuff for nearly FREE!
Maybe it is time for you quiche eaters to start paying it back?
Griff, there are massive street protests every time anything happens which the totalitarian left doesn’t like. That is because the left are ignorant totalitarian brownshirt-esque thugs. When you see them interviewed about what they are protesting none of them have the vaguest clue. Just like now. None of them have a clue about what Trump policies they violently disagree with or why. They’ve just been told that Trump is wacist, homophobe, misogynist etc. etc.
Stop watching BBC and change your newspapers. These are turkeys voting against Christmas. The Russian “probe” affair is an invention of the Democrats and is Hillary’s last gasp of her lost campaign. The bureaucracy is still loaded with Obama 5th column traitors to government including the intelligence services and if there was one small piece of evidence of collusion, it would have been leaked a year ago. Oh, the investigation will uncover a phony expense sheet by a campaign volunteer or some such, but its neomarxbrothers fake news personified. Gareth, you are a young guy and you will get it all later, I’m sure. You at least visit WUWT so you likely can’t resist learning something.
It’s really because he’d have everyone eat a cheeseburger with ketchup.
‘Le cheeseburger’ becoming increasing popular in France to the horror of traditionalists and the more sensitive UK visitors like Griff.
https://www.mcdonalds.fr/produits/burgers/cheeseburger
I don’t know where you get the idea that I’m at all sensitive about what the French (or anyone else) do or don’t eat.
I do like to try local food…
Last month in Berlin I tried the ‘currywurst’ a local delicacy… of recent invention.
Meanwhile at COP( – oh, I dunno) – 97 – ‘The science is settled….’
So if the US is still officially in the Paris Climate Agreement aren’t the rest of the signatories in breach of the agreement by not inviting them to the table?
Thank you Macron for making agreement null and void! ; )
So he will have a lower carbon footprint than every other leader and NGO hack who will attend.
So once again America is leading the way.
MAGA.
In what universe does Trump care about them and their parties?
It seems more likely that they are trying to shame Melania into pressurizing him. Whether she cares about a missed shopping opportunity in Paris appears equally unlikely. There are now many equally good ones, or better, in the far East.
Is the American taxpayer money also not invited?
Oh no… President Trump should send a blank check as just compensation.
Of course I was being facetious (for those of you without a sense of humor).
Rocky – it would be far more effective if he sent a cheque for $0.02.
So true, R2Dtoo.
Trump should now impose a trade tariff on all exports of wood pellets to the UK and EU to cover damage to US forest land from clear cutting.
Has there been an academic study of the environmental effect in the USA and in the UK of the fueling of DRAX UK by the forest products of the South East USA?
I heard that an expansion of the original conversion of DRAX from coal to wood was proposed and may already be in operation.
The only article that I read, a year ago, on the environmental impact of the project pointed out the secondary effect on the natural flora and fauna after clearance , scraping the ground clean and resowing.
All this for a fuel of inferior calorific value and , so far as I know , no local testing in the UK for , eg dioxin emissions and no balance sheet that I have seen of the carbon budget.
Is there such a concept as ” peak sustainable wood”.
He should do the world a favour and ban it.
wood pellet export/burning is not green and produces more CO2 than other fuels.
Join your local green group in opposing it!
Doing a little research, the Paris Agreement allows each nation to negotiate separate emissions targets, which are then voluntarily enforced. It is not made clear who does the negotiations with each nation. And this is, according to various pundits, not a legally binding treaty. Yet, by President Obama accepting the Paris Agreement through an executive order, the United States became a signatory, and was expected to start paying money for the honor of signing up.
Then came a really odd part. In Article 28 of the agreement, parties are allowed to withdraw from the agreement after sending a withdrawal notification to the depositary. However (and this is a big however), notice of withdrawal can be given no earlier than THREE YEARS after the agreement goes into force for the country. And then, the withdrawal is effective one year after that notification.
This means that an outgoing president was able to commit our country to this agreement, for a minimum of four years, based on his signature alone. For something that is said to not be a legally binding treaty, this is certainly feeling like a legally binding treaty.
Send it to Congress and have it nullified.