by Tilak Doshi
According to the UK’s Telegraph, just hours after President Trump issued executive orders to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, Ed Miliband, the British Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, “warned” Mr Trump that the rise of Net Zero is “unstoppable”. The tendentiousness of the Telegraph’s headline is remarkable. Just who is this mere Department Secretary to “warn” the Chief Executive of the world’s leading economic and military power of anything?
Evidently, the British Secretary is deluded enough to take up the mantle of responsibility to warn President Trump of ignorance in energy affairs. But Mr Miliband has company, ranging from leading academics to senior global leaders conferring at last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Rather than simply dismissing his antics as another sign of Mad Ed’s silly climate posturing, it behoves us to take his warning at face value.
Is the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement really such a big deal?
No Big Deal…
Appearing before the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee a day after President Trump’s inauguration, Mr Miliband sought to downplay the impact of America’s planned withdrawal from the international climate treaty which Mr. Trump had announced on the same day.
He said
Other countries believed it was in their national self-interest to remain in the Paris Agreement and to continue working on these (climate) issues, because they saw both the advantages of moving forward on this and the dangers for them of not moving forward. So I think the transition is unstoppable, not fast enough, but unstoppable.
Presumably, M. Miliband was referring to Mr Trump’s previous withdrawal from the Paris agreement during his first term in office from January 2017, a move which was promptly reversed by President Joe Biden in January 2021. President Biden’s administration reversed almost every energy initiative of the previous administration. It sought to portray the first exit from the Paris agreement – and Mr Trump’s first-term Presidency – as an aberration from the liberal-progressive ‘arc of history’. After all, as it was widely claimed by the Democrat establishment and its media shills, wasn’t the Trump win in 2016 only made possible by Russian collusion?
In 2017, when Mr Trump first gave notice of withdrawal from the Paris agreement, a statutory delay of four years from the date of the agreement coming into force in November 2016 applied. In effect, the US was out of the agreement for only a few months before Trump’s first term Presidency expired. This time around, the statutory delay is one year. Thus from 2026 onwards, at least to the end of Mr Trump’s second term, the US will be not participate in any of the Paris agreement commitments including any financial obligations.
The US thus remained a party to the Paris agreement for almost the entirety of President Trump’s first term, during which its administrative staff continued participating in programmes and initiatives that were pursued under the Obama Presidency. The US State Department continued to participate in the ongoing negotiations, including co-chairing with China the Enhanced Transparency Framework.
At the COP29 UN annual climate summit held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the shadow of Trump’s triumphant election win, Mr John Podesta – President Biden’s Climate Envoy – had no hesitation in telling governments around the world to “keep faith” in their efforts to “combat global warming”. He confidently asserted that the Trump Presidency could only slow, not stop, the transition from fossil fuels:
For those of us dedicated to climate action, last week’s outcome in the United States is obviously bitterly disappointing. … But what I want to tell you today is that while the United States federal Government, under Donald Trump, may put climate action on the back burner, the work to contain climate change is going to continue in the United States.
Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and later the White House Climate Adviser for President Biden, accused the Trump administration of having “abdicated its responsibility to protect the American people and our national security” by leaving the Paris Agreement. Now representing an environmental NGO, Ms McCarthy assured her audience that “our states, cities, businesses and local institutions stand ready to pick up the baton of US climate leadership and do all they can — despite federal complacency — to continue the shift to a clean energy economy”.
The belief that the global climate agenda signified by the Paris agreement is undiminished despite the re-election of Donald Trump is not restricted to US Democrat and environmental NGO activists. At last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said:
The coming years will be vital well beyond Europe. All continents will have to speed up the transition towards Net Zero and deal with the growing burden of climate change. …The Paris Agreement continues to be the best hope for all humanity. So Europe will stay the course and keep working with all nations that want to protect nature and stop global warming.
…But Trump’s Second Shot Makes It a Big Deal
President Trump’s second term is unlikely to repeat the mistakes of his first one. He has taken a sledgehammer approach to replacing Democrat activists in Government with staff more inclined to his ‘MAGA’ vision. President Trump has long said he believes the biggest mistake he made during his first term was hiring people disloyal to his campaign promises.
Harvard University’s Robert Stavins – a leading academic who has done decades of research and published extensively on international climate negotiations – seems to find it disappointing that “Trump now seems determined to purge the upper ranks for the executive branch of anyone other than loyalists”. As if an incoming President would seek to hire disloyal staff!
Few would disagree with White House spokesman Steven Cheung, who said that: “No one should be surprised that those being hired should align with the mission of the administration. Nobody in private industry would ever hire someone who isn’t mission focused, and the Government should be no different.” Brian McCormack, Chief of Staff to National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, finds President Trump’s hiring decisions similarly unexceptional: “Every President is entitled to have a staff and the advisers that he needs to implement the goals that the American people elected him to pursue.”
President Trump’s detractors have suggested that despite his pulling the US out of the Paris agreement, it will matter little to the global climate agenda. The ‘show must go on’ and true believers will step in to the breach. Thus, last week’s Reuters headline about billionaire climate warrior Michael Bloomberg who “steps in to help fund UN climate body after Trump withdrawal”.
Climate alarmists Ed Miliband, Ursula von der Leyen, Gina McCarthy and Michael Bloomberg share an underlying presumption that the energy transition away from fossil fuels to the brave new world of renewable energy and ‘clean tech’ is made inevitable because ‘markets demand it’ and technological change has made it possible. In the great moral crusade to ‘save the planet’, they share the fatal conceit that what they want is what the world needs.
Yet, Trump’s second term takes place in a vastly changed world from his first. The rise of populist parties in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, France, Germany and the UK – dismissed as the ‘far Right‘ by the mainstream media – in a Europe stricken with deindustrialisation and recession has fundamentally altered the policy presumptions that held sway just a few years ago. Ms Von der Leyen’s own party, a constituent of the European Parliament’s EPP which is the EU’s most influential political group, is now recommending a freeze of the CO2 duty, abolishing renewable energy targets and reverting to pre-2019 ‘green wave’ policies.
If Brussels is looking shaky in its anti-Trump predilections, the world of international business seems to have collapsed like a house of cards in its previous trumpeting of the ESG agenda. The ESG movement, a crucial pillar in the business sector’s buy-in of the Paris agreement, has had a series of reversals recently.
The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and Climate Action 100+, which pushed ESG goals and decarbonisation of the American economy, suffered a flurry of high-profile exits by companies such as BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company. “More than 70 companies have left woke ESG organisations like NZAM and Climate Action 100+ since the Committee’s investigation started,” Republican Jim Jordan told the Daily Wire.
The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was established in April 2021 under the auspices of the United Nations and its champion Mark Carney, the ‘rock star central banker‘. It was dedicated to helping lenders reduce their carbon footprints. The group has been abandoned in quick succession by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Morgan Stanley.
The ESG colossus, which seemed to have reigned supreme in business boardrooms the world over in the past decade, has now been irretrievably compromised. The adage ‘go woke, go broke‘ was right on target.
Markets and Technology Will Not Drive the Energy Transition
No, the markets do not drive the so-called energy transition and technological change obeys the laws of physics and economics. For instance, in the transportation sector, neither markets nor technology has made electric vehicles affordable or popular. Within hours of being sworn into the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order meant to end policies supporting EVs. In his inauguration speech, Mr Trump said: “We will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers. … In other words, you’ll be able to buy the car of your choice.”
President Trump has not only given Americans their freedom to buy cars of their choice, a very big deal in that country. He has also eased bureaucrat-imposed efficiency standards for dishwashers, showerheads, refrigerators, laundry machines, toilets, gas cookers, incandescent lights and the like. Mr Trump, in short, has rescued the American consumer from the dead hand of an impoverishing green ideology that yields ultimate power to an efficiency technocracy.
These measures are part of President Trump’s flurry of executive orders which remove regulatory obstacles to the rapid development of fossil fuel resources and all associated infrastructure while seeking to prevent wind farms from being built on federal lands and waters.
President Trump’s executive order for the US to exit the Paris agreement is a huge deal, not least in saving the nation hundreds of millions of dollars which would have been spent on climate boondoggles such as President Biden’s euphemistically termed Inflation Reduction Act and vast transfers in climate funds pledged to developing countries. Let not the naysayers say otherwise.
Dr Tilak K. Doshi is an economist, a member of the CO2 Coalition and a former contributor to Forbes. Follow him on Substack and X.
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“…co-chairing with China the Enhanced Transparency Framework.”? China, the world’s largest producer of carbon pollution (and probably the largest producer of actual pollution), all while producing the most equipment for Green Energy, has no interest whatsoever in transparency. This revelation, by Dr. Doshi, is sufficient justification for resigning from the Paris accord. Dr. Doshi is also right on about Trump house-cleaning in his second Administration.
And that’s the rub. The people that think they can control the weather by eliminating fossil fuel CO2 emissions cannot even reduce let alone eliminate those emissions. Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have continued to rise over the last 30 years and at best, may be looking at those emissions leveling off in the next 5-10 years. It’s a complete farce.
Pied piper Xi is happy to lead his useful idiots off the net zero cliff.
The US greenies do not know it yet, but they are in free-fall, because Trump will systematically take away their $lollipops, by installing people loyal to MAGA, which means getting out the chainsaw and cut, cut, cut.
When the greenies hit bottom, they will splatter into the dust of awful history
Not to mention disbanding the Climate Youth Corps or whatever it actually is called. That group reminds me of 1930s Germany.
Biden’s henchmen are Nazis.
Yes, he is!
Xi must be shocked at how easy it is to manipulate Western politicians. And no doubt, is very happy about it as it makes his job easier.
But,now he is going to have to deal with Trump. Which might end up working out for all concerned. Trump is a Game Changer.
Game Changer, yes, but first he has to disrupt the status quo, which he is doing vigorously.
Xi will not lead his useful idiots off the cliff. He’s smarter than that. What he will do is to lead his useful idiots up to edge of the cliff and then give them a shove. After his useful idiots are gone, he will be the only man standing and he can do whatever he wants to do.
With India increasing like China had and the rest of the underdeveloped world playing catch up, 5-10 years is unrealistic. Emissions will continue from China at 35–40% of global emissions until India surpasses them around 2060. Emissions will likely increase unabated until well past 2100.
All the better for the Biome!
“It’s a complete farce.”
Yes, it is.
There is no “carbon pollution.”
Please stop spreading propaganda by adopting their falsehoods as part of your language.
Word play is what the ****s are good at.
There is Carbon Pollution though in the form of Soot. Black Soot that can cover part of the surface of Greenland yearly and is responsible for some ice melt. But CO2 is not Carbon anymore than H2O is Hydrogen
Please notice that I qualified the “carbon pollution” meme by using the term “real pollution”, as a reference to smog, smoke, industrial acids, covid, etc.
Lot’s of vocabulary used by the Climate Syndicate is bogus and we all need to stop giving them credibility by using their words.
Control the words, control the ideas.
— K. Marx
Industrial wind facility does not equal a “farm”
Same with using “gender” when the meaning is “sex”.
A favourite quote of mine from Alice in Wonderland — which is where a lot of climate maniacs seem to live:
When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.””The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.””The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “Which is to be master—that’s all.”
As Uncle Karl said, “control the words, control the ideas”! Orwell warned us as well.
I agree and we can help stop this but dumping the “Green House Gas effect” meme in favor of “Infrared Absorption effect” or “IA effect” for short. We can go with “Infrared Absorption and Emission effect” (or IAE effect for short). I’d stay away from “IRA effect” for obvious reasons. :-)….
Personally I’m using “IA effect” because its the absorption that matters as its about ‘storing the incoming energy in the earth system’. Once you get there than its one step more to identify that the earth system stores the energy in multiple ways not just via IA. And of course its one more step to demonstrate a minor change in the system that allows for more of the Sun’s energy to be available to store (the Albedo changing) can explain all the supposed increase in the stored energy.
Long story short we need to use the proper language to properly educate not confuse and obfuscate. The climate doomers rely on an ‘uneducated populace’ to push their hoax. Proper language and concepts educate people, and an educated population is serious trouble to socialists/doomers.
I can’t find any reference to that being an actual quote from Karl Marx. Can you point it out for us?
Marx did claim that the “ruling class” maintains their power by shaping social consciousness through the way they use language. So I think it’s true that Marxists applied the theory of manipulating language that Marx originally claimed was a tactic of the capitalists oppressing the workers.
For example, Saul Alinsky observed in Rules for Radicals (1971):
It’s also a theme of George Orwell’s novel 1984 (1948) although from an anti-Marxist point of view:
It’s similar to how today’s Green activists seem to cultivate perverted aspects of religion to manipulate people into accepting sacrifices for Net Zero, in line with Marx’s view that religion is the opiate of the masses.
I’m not trying to be difficult. I agree that Marxism is a disastrous evil. It’s double-plus-ungood to use the Newspeak. But it’s not a good way to influence people to misrepresent the ideas of those whom we oppose.
Marx was commenting on what he thought to be the unjust actions of the ruling class, not recommending a new approach for communists to control the masses. Socialist followers of Marx such as Stalin and Hitler applied the theory to their goal of becoming and remaining the ruling class.
In a similar vein, we often see quotations from Hitler (actually Goebbels) about repeating a big lie often enough that it will be believed. But the original quote is taken out of context to make it seem that the Germans were so depraved as to be receptive to Nazis openly proposing telling lies to manipulate the public. In this case it was supposedly the Jews who were employing that tactic. And also quite similarly, Nazis actually ended up doing what they claimed that their enemies were doing.
If you’re not seeing where I’m going with this, it is that “the truth will set you free”. We should never use any form of deception to influence others, If we misrepresent the thoughts and words of our enemies, those whom we hope to influence may discover our deception (which I will charitably assume is usually just an innocent error), and may conclude that nothing we say is true.
Fair enough. Although that quote is often (in error) attributed to Marx.
I did not do my homework.
It is Carbon Dioxide Enhancement.
MAGA will lead to CO2 enhancement to promote growth of flora and fauna, which increases greenery all over the world and increases crop yields to feed hungry people. What is not to like?.
Net-Zero by 2050 is a Suicide Pact
“Dr. Doshi is also right on about Trump house-cleaning in his second Administration.”
Yes, he is. Most of the people Trump is firing are Democrats. They are the “Swamp”. Trump is draining the Swamp.
In this last presidential election, in Washington DC, Harris and the Democrats got 93 percent of the vote, and Trump got seven percent of the vote. That ought to tell you just how big the Swamp is in Washington DC. It needs a lot of draining.
Yes, excellent article, Dr. Doshi.
And never, never agree to making D.C. at State [with 2 Senators & 1 Rep.].
If they need representation in Congress, we should cede all the non-government used land [ie the residential areas] back to Virginia &/or Maryland where it came from.
Today it is just Maryland. Virginia pulled out during the great war of Secession.
One thing that is quite clear is the fact that Flywheel Miliband and his ilk do not live in the world as we know it. In the UK we are going in the opposite direction to Trump, most notably on freedom of speech [and thought]. The big thing – thus far – is to label opponents… All part of controlling people.
“Apparently, complaints of ‘two-tier policing’ are one example of a ‘right-wing extremist narrative’.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/28/outraged-by-grooming-gangs-youre-an-extremist/
By that token opposing net zero makes one instantly right wing, a fascist etc.
“In a recent study, CSSN Scholar Matthew Paterson delves into the emergence of “anti-net zero populism” in the UK, analyzing how right-wing populists use discourse to undermine climate policies and the net-zero emissions target across various policy areas.”
https://cssn.org/the-rise-of-anti-net-zero-populism-in-the-uk-comparing-rhetorical-strategies-for-climate-policy-dismantling/
You can’t have a serious discussion with the 6th form student protest brigades, in or out of office. Thinking for yourself? That’s a far-right idea for a start. And the science is settled.
News that amuses
Rachel Reeves is set to deliver her much-touted ‘growth’ speech in Oxfordshire this morning after months of economic woes— […] Reeves will warn that “growth will not come without a fight”—a fight that’s looking to be against her own Cabinet. She’s expected to back airport expansion, including at Gatwick, Luton, and Heathrow.
Tractors and protesting farmers have turned up outside Reeves’ event in Oxford.
Starmer is in the Times likening himself to Thatcher again. Another reset…
By reaching a negative rating of -41 Starmer has beat Rishi’s lowest ever point of -41 at the time of the election. When asked to describe Starmer in one word, respondents where most likely to choose: “Useless,” “Liar,” and “Bad.”
https://order-order.com/#_@/wJLubnJnb8s3yA
Of course, they will continue to delude themselves
Emma Barnett (BBC) cut in: “And contribute to climate change with an extra runway?” She pointed to eco-entrepreneur and Labour donor Dale Vince’s attacks on the plan, after he called it “an illusion of growth”.
But Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said he still believes there is “no tension” between the UK’s climate goals and the possibility of Heathrow expansion.
“No tension? How is an extra runway no tension?” Barnett replied.
He said there would be the same emissions, and “people are still going to fly”.
The presenter hit back: “You don’t expect emissions to go up if there’s an extra runway?”
Reynolds said Labour is committed to decarbonising aviation.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/minister-no-tension-between-airport-expansion-and-climate-goals_uk_6799d83ce4b01949837eefe9
Here endeth the lesson.
This reminded me of the alternative fab four – The Rutles.
Did you ever get the feeling
That the truth is less revealing
Than a downright lie?
The Starmer government should be declared persona non grata in the US for the next 4 years and 8 more years under Vance, for actively trying to make America worse again, MAWA
“analyzing how right-wing populists use discourse to undermine climate policies”
The only reason “discourse” is effective is because the discourse amounts to skeptics saying climate alarmists don’t have evidence that CO2 does what they claim it does, and since the climate alarmists *don’t* have any evidence, the discourse is effective.
When you say show us the evidence, and the other side can’t come up with any evidence, then the impartial observer has to think there must not be any evidence to substantiated the climate crisis claims.
Climate Alarmists have no evidence to back up their claims of climate change doom. THAT is their problem, not skeptic discourse about it.
The problem surrounding discourse is that in the realm of activism subjectivity rules. Mere consensus, even the illusion of it, is treated as evidence. Speculation is accorded the status of solidity, and the act of questioning is perceived as violence. When you present data refuting a claim, “Yes it is!” is considered a sufficient response. Reason and logic have no hold on such a paradigm.
Good comment.
It’s not so much what the USA does which undermines Net Zero; it’s China. While emissions have been falling in the USA, they have been rising in China. And that rise sems likely to continue. So the UK can continue to reduce its measly one percent contribution to global emissons. The EU can continue doing the same. But at the end of the day global emissions will continue to rise. And Ed Milliband can jump up and down and wave his arms up and down and it will make absolutely no difference.
Not forgetting India.
As goes China
So goes India
And the rest of the developing world to follow
Nobody ever mentions Africa. Africa has scarcely begun emitting CO₂
Funny that China, the second largest economy and second largest population in the world is classified as “developing” and therefore exempt.
It’s not funny at all. It was planned that way by western politicians.
Think about it. China is a 6000 year old culture with nuclear weapons and a space program and is only called “developing” by western nations who think they own the world.
Not exactly, unless you view the UN as western only.
If Ed jumps up and down and waves his arms fast enough he can become his own personal wind turbine and that will show them!
But the sub-text in so many comments (right across the board, not solely on WUWT) is the implication that China and India should not be allowed to pollute when the rest of us are doing our best to “save the planet”.
“The planet” has been around a lot longer than we have and the idea that the planet needs ‘saving’ or that humanity can do anything effective towards that end is hubris of the first order.
And things aren’t improved when we don’t (most of us) properly understand what we are supposed to be doing. You refer twice to ‘global emissions’. Your one percent is 1% of 3% of 0.042% which is the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. We could treble our emissions and the planet would not notice the difference except that it would be greener and crop yields would be better.
The ’emissions’ associated with mining and processing rare earth minerals for wind turbines, not to mention the construction, shipping, installation of those things and the environmental damage they cause are a different matter and that is what should be concerning us. CO2 is an irrelevance as far as climate is concerned. And to be honest, so are we!
story tip
In First White House Briefing, Youngest Press Secretary Ever Eschews TraditionPress secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president would open the briefing room to bloggers, podcasters and social-media influencers
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/drones-influencers-and-medicaid-what-to-know-about-the-first-white-house-briefing-of-trumps-second-term-4446b719?mod=hp_lista_pos2
To eliminate the monopoly of the leftist-biased Corporate Media, which is decades overdue
Karoline Leavitt went into the news conference without a briefing book. She had all the answers in her head.
She also knew the names of all the reporters in the room.
I thought she did a good job. She needs to relax a little. I’m sure she will as she gets used to the job.
Not too many “gotcha! questions” from the reporters. They seem to be handling the situation the way a legitimate reporter should be handling it. So far. The Trump Juggernaut has them a little intimidated.
Heritage Foundation?
From the article: “According to the UK’s Telegraph, just hours after President Trump issued executive orders to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, Ed Miliband, the British Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, “warned” Mr Trump that the rise of Net Zero is “unstoppable”.”
I bet Trump got a good laugh out of that.
Trump will be visiting the UK shortly, and he and Miliband can discuss it. Miliband will end up looking like the Mayor of Los Angeles after her conversation with Trump last week. She couldn’t agree with Trump fast enough, she was so intimidated by Trump, and the truth he was speaking.
Trump will lay a little truth on Miliband, too.
The Paris accord won’t be able to do much without US cash.
From the article: “Other countries believed it was in their national self-interest to remain in the Paris Agreement and to continue working on these (climate) issues, because they saw both the advantages of moving forward on this and the dangers for them of not moving forward. So I think the transition is unstoppable, not fast enough, but unstoppable.”
This is why the UK is going down the Net Zero Road to Ruin. Their politicians look at the world this way, and see no option but to install windmills and solar and battery backup even though it should be obvious by this time to a rational person that windmills, solar, and battery storage are not fit for the purpose of powering human society. They are, in fact, detrimental to human society.
From the Telegraph; too little, too late?
Lord Mandelson: I was wrong to call Trump a danger to the world
Lol
Wonderful to see Mandelson grovelling….
Nothing to worry about.
Ed’s referring to the number of brain cells he (Ed) possesses
Most of those “Other Countries” are receiver nations from the climate graft fund that the US was required to be one of the few “Funding Countries”
From the article: “The belief that the global climate agenda signified by the Paris agreement is undiminished despite the re-election of Donald Trump is not restricted to US Democrat and environmental NGO activists.”
This is called “Whistling past the graveyard”.
Three cheers for Trump. Three boos for Minibrain whose Net Zero plans spell poverty for nil return.
My understanding is the Paris Accord is an international treaty that was never ratified by the US Senate and is, therefore, non-binding. The delay for exit is contrary to US Treaties per the Constitution. If it was never ratified, it was never binding from the beginning.
This is another case where Presidents have overreached and ignored the Constitution and the US Senate failed in their responsibility of checks and balances.
I still believe that this Paris agreement should be submitted to the Senate and voted down for a lack of 2/3 majority. After that happens, throw it into the burn bin that provides heat for the Capitol.
I concur.
Presidents Executive powers .
You may have heard of that in last few days
The Paris Accord is wrong in its reasoning but the President can and does sign treatys that are binding.
Thats why Trump had to ‘legally undo’ the original binding agreement by Obama
The President can enter into an executive agreement (which can include a treaty as that term is used in international law).
This can be:
a. A “Congressional-Executive” or “legislative-executive” agreement, made by the President under authority granted by Congress under an existing statute; or
b. A “sole executive agreement,” created under the President’s own constitutional authority to “take care” that the United States’ laws be faithfully enforced (U.S. Constitution, Art II, § 3) and under the bundle of Constitutional responsibilities collectively referred to as the President’s foreign affairs power (See U.S. Constitution, Art. II, §§ 1, 2, 3; United States 11 Foreign Affairs Manual § 723.2- 2(C)).
That took a deep dive.
Well done.
Note that it is in the context that the US laws can be faithfully enforced.
The Paris accord, standing on its own, is not a US law unless/until Congress passes the applicable legislation.
As the term is used in international law.
That is not the same as in the US Constitution.
The Paris Accord is defined as an international treaty.
Biden signed an executive order effecting agreement, but that is not the same as ratification, which requires Advice and Consent of the US Senate.
As such, it is not Constitutionally binding, nor does it automatically become US Law, which ratified treaties do.
As such, all Trump needed to do is exactly what he did. Issue an executive order ending Biden’s agreement.
Since it was not a treaty ratified by the US, the US can just walk away. If the UN or other organization wants to sue, let them try. The US is not bound to the ICC, so it will be an interesting read as the drama unfolds.
The UN and all of its minions will be wise not to push too hard. After all, the lion’s share of funding comes from US tax dollars and should they push too hard, they might find themselves on a street corner selling pencils.
“Mr Trump, in short, has rescued the American consumer from the dead hand of an impoverishing green ideology”
Actually Trump has rescued all Americans from the socialist liberal tyranny of the Democrat Party and its prior dictators.
If we succeed in Making America Great Again, does it not follow that this success creates opportunities to Make the World Great Again?
Curious minds are asking….
I think so. Success is infectious.
A successful leader shows the way, and then others take up the quest, after the leader has shown them what can be done, and how it can be done.
The freeze on Federal grants has been reversed.
Yes another memo went rescinding the earlier one
Trumpanzees dont keep up, thats not ‘sucess’
‘In the memo distributed to federal agencies, Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, states that OMB memorandum M-25-13 “is rescinded.” That order, issued Monday, instructed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.”
Why the need for insults?
Only the few wealthy countries of Germany, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, other EU countries, and the USA, representing less than one of the eight billion on Planet Earth, that have “green” agendas, are mandating social changes to achieve net zero emissions in their “small worlds within this planet“.
And not one of them has called for the elimination of concrete and termites, two of the biggest sources of global atmospheric CO2.
Termites also emit lots of methane. Humans emit about 8 billions pounds of CO2 everyday. To this add the amount of CO from domestic animals.
We can not get complacent. Trump’s efforts will likely be important for the next 4 years but these crazies pushing the climate hoax are well funded, well organized and very deep in to the political spectrum.
Consider just how crazy and devoted you have to be to promulgate the biggest hoax ever on the human population. Barnham of “Barnham & Bailey” fame must be laughing in his grave.
The ability of these crazies to be able to convince a significant portion of the population that a trace gas, absolutely necessary for all life on the planet is a ‘pollutant’ that will end all life instead of growing it is amazing. The power of telling a lie over & over again is demonstrated by this hoax.
Of course the goal isn’t to ‘save the planet’, its to ‘control the masses’ and socialists will use anything at their disposal to do that.
I’ve never much expected politicians to ‘do the right thing’, but they need to step up and not just role back regulations but step-by-step put a dagger in to this hoax. Demonstrating through the climate crazies own words that Net Zero has NOTHING to do with ‘saving the planet’ but about ‘controlling the masses’ (they’ve said it time and again, USE those words!).
With the US withdrawing from the Paris Accords, this means that the top 3 countries in terms of CO2 emissions, are all ignoring them.
Burying the Paris Accords in a crossroads with a stake in its heart is apparently needed. Submitting the Accords as a formal treaty to the Senate would lead to its formal rejection.
Not required .
Presidents executive powers suffice especially the foreign affairs powers.
The senate only gets the minor treaties these days
such as this during Trumps time
The reason Paris was not submitted as a treaty is that Obama knew quite well there was no way he could have gotten two thirds in the Senate. The Democrats sit still for that dimunition of the power of the Senate, as they approved of the content, and the Republicans tend to be wussies. John Roberts is very cautious, and “conservative” in the worst sense.
Cartoons of DT always seem to add 20 lbs. Must be “fatism”.
he is obese. Just the image people told him years ago to wear dark loose suits
Except on golf course
Ideology whiplash. Had there been a legal vote in America in 2020 we wouldn’t be going through this. I get the feeling that Trump is going to fully investigate the 2020 vote to calm his ego and get the truth out.
The 50-60 Trump legal challenges all failed. The recounts all confirmed the original result. The Arizona senate Audit came to the same result.
For the 2016 election Trump had his own blue ribbon commission to prove that he won the popular vote . He didnt.
Same voting machines or mail ballots and process this time gave the clear winner , just as in 2020, just it wasnt Harris
As for mail ballot fraud
One such instance took place in North Carolina in the 2018 midterms when Leslie McCrae Dowless, a political operative working for Republican House candidate Mark Harris “defrauded voters by collecting unfilled ballots and then filling in the rest of it to favor the campaign’s candidate,” according to a report from MIT’s Election Lab.
As a result of the incident, a new election was held, and Dowless was convicted of fraud in 2020
99.22 Million Ballots Processed in the 2024 General Election
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2024/1202-usps-releases-2024-post-election-analysis-report.htm
Duker, the court cases on the 2020 election were all decided on the basis of either laches, the case should have been brought earlier in the process, i.e. before the election, or on standing.
No cases were decided on the merits. Extensive use of unvetted mail-in ballots and same day registration led to a lack of any chain of custody. Wisconsin had a literally unbelievable growth in turnout, for example.
But you know that, and are gaslighting.
“No cases were decided on the merits.”
That’s right. I bet duker knows that. So he is spreading disinformation.
Add to it that only something like 17 of the something like 67 claims ever made it before a judge, none of which were decided on merit.
Very nice. I will say it again no committee, council, bureaucracy, agency or any other gaggle of humans can come close to a lightly regulated free market. It couldn’t be more clear. Let us buy and use the things we want produced in a safe and clean manner and life will be grand. To hell with all those worthless government entities.
It’s about time that the US made such action official, anyway. These climate agreements and COP conferences have been accomplishing next to nothing anyway since, among other things, the planet still depends on 82% of its primary energy generation on fossil fuels, while China , India and much of the developing world are still constructing coal plants. At the same time, even though Canada and the US liked to talk about their progress in introducing renewables, last year both set new highs in oil extraction and production. Canada is a classic example of a country that talks a good game about some sort of green transition. Yet during the last two decades it has achieved only 20% of its 2030 emissions-reduction target and might need as much as another 75 years to do so, which won’t bother most citizens in the least. So with such overall global lack of commitments, the Paris deal’s chances of success, like its predecessors’, was a long shot from the outset.
Two points for Mr Miliband:
1 The US has done more to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions than almost any other country.
https://www.epa.gov/system/files/images/2024-04/total-ghg-over-time-2024.p2g
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2. Forcing development is often dangerous and is always very expensive.
Its wasnt a 4 year statuary delay but 3 years
It was Trump that added the extra time by not starting the clock till Jun 2017
True, but the US did not formally ratify it as a treaty.
Maybe it’s all for the best, and the crash will propel the eevil populist nationalists into power in Europe. And Ed Miliband will go down as the prototype of the politician that literally understands nothing.