Essay by Eric Worrall
Apparently buying technology off others will not be a thing in the Guardian / Kerry vision of the future.
‘A colossal own goal’: Trump’s exit from global climate treaties will have little effect outside US
Fiona Harvey and Oliver Milman
For much of the last 30 years, the rest of the world has been forced to persevere with climate action in the face of US intransigence
Donald Trump’s latest attack on climate action takes place amid rapidly rising temperatures, rising sea levels, still-rising greenhouse gas emissions, burgeoning costs from extreme weather and the imminent danger that the world will trigger “tipping points” in the climate system that will lead to catastrophic and irreversible changes.
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Simon Stiell, the UN’s climate chief, said US citizens and companies would bear the impact. “It is a colossal own goal which will leave the US less secure and less prosperous,” he said. “It will mean less affordable energy, food, transport and insurance for American households and businesses as renewables keep getting cheaper than fossil fuels, as climate-driven disasters hit American crops, businesses and infrastructure harder each year and as oil, coal and gas volatility drives more conflicts, regional instability and forced migration.”
Mohamed Adow, the director of the thinktank Power Shift Africa, predicts countries will take a similar attitude this year, carrying on without the US. “The climate movement is bigger than any one nation,” he said. “African nations and the global south will continue pushing for climate justice, demanding that wealthy polluters honour their historical responsibilities, and building the clean energy future our people deserve.”
…Under Trump, the US risks being left on the sidelines – a position that Kerry called a “gift to China”. The economist Nicholas Stern said: “The economics of the [low-carbon] transition look ever more attractive. Every time we look at the science it looks more worrying, and every time we look at the technology it is more encouraging. In an increasingly insecure world, countries and industries will be seeking independence from fossil fuels and the great volatility such dependence brings. In a world with sluggish growth, countries and industries will be seeking new opportunities. These will be in the technologies of the 21st century, not the 19th and 20th centuries.”
But he noted that Trump, though he could not change the economic direction of travel, could unsettle some investors on the margins. “Any actions that slow down the pace are unhelpful,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/09/a-colossal-own-goal-trumps-exit-from-global-climate-treaties-will-have-little-effect-outside-us
This claim is so absurd. There is no scenario in which the USA does not gain an economic advantage by pulling out of climate treaties.
Imagine for a moment the climate crisis was as bad as John Kerry and the fantasists at the Guardian believe, and that green energy is the solution. By withdrawing from climate treaties, the USA still gains a significant economic advantage by freeloading off the climate efforts of others. By avoiding the economic disruption of a premature green energy transition, the USA can sit on the sidelines, letting others carry the burden of reducing global CO2 emissions, and use its economic advantage to scoop up any useful green energy technology after the patents run out.
The reality is there is no climate crisis, and green technology will never be useful. In this scenario the USA has an even greater advantage, by avoiding the economic folly of wasting money on technologies which can never fulfil requirements.
Either way Trump’s USA wins.
The Gran. sure likes to show how blinkered they are !
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Here is a nice Video from someone close to the top of the scam blowing the whistle about DEI,ESG,Climate and the WEF and all the other usual suspects,
and it shows that bankers who don”t go along with the narrative are treated the same way like scientists.
And it tells you who really gets poorer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdnpqGVVAE
Now we may get an idea why the guardian is writing this crap
I worry that it will capsize and Fiona and Oliver will fall out.
Yes. In Opposite Land.
Yes. In Opposite Land.
In Orwell’s Oceania.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
….and Wealthier is Poorer. Nineteen-Eighty-Four is still a popular instruction manual with many people and organizations.
Wasting less money on unimportant and unnecessary things always makes you richer.
You beat me to it.
If there’s anybody that knows how to make people poorer, it’s climatistas.
Making people poorer? Yep. They have had plenty of practice and getting very good at it. UK? Poorer. Germany? Poorer. Norway? Richer – because of all the oil and gas they are producing.
But…but… those “millions of new well paid jobs (TM)” in the green sector
that absolutely don’t exist and never will,
will make us all reacher.
There is no such thing as a “green job.” I’ve been an environmental professional for 50 years, and I haven’t been able to identify a green job anywhere.
On the other hand….
“An absolute takedown of the whole Net Zero agenda by U.S. Energy Secretary .”
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/2009206277734584791
Reversing the absurd endangerment finding can’t happen fast enough.. They took the worst case scenarios from models that have been invalidated by observations and then imputed fictional costs to an unknowable future. They completely ignored the benefits side of the equation.
The endangerment finding is actually built on a complete fantasy.
There is absolutely ZERO down side to enhanced atmospheric CO2.
I wonder what’s going on with that— haven’t heard much about it in the last few months.
American prosperity that’s coming from ditching globalist subjugation of nation states will spit in the face of that lying propaganda rag. The brain dead idiots still goose stepping to their marching orders are being increasingly marginalized. Republicans winning the midterms is critical to American sovereignty.
The US withdrawing from “Climate treaties“?
Name one that was passed by the US Senate by 2/3 and then signed by the US President as required by the US Constitution.
Only a treaty that meets those requirements binds the states in any way not matter how many other countries sign it or a President (Obama) agrees to it.
Example? Wilson was a big promoter of the League of Nations and he agreed to it. But US membership failed in the Senate.
Yet Wilson successfully sold out to the globalists via FED and IRS
and you got the League of Nation exactly where those FED family resides,
after a climate change style rebranding to UNO.
FCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992) is a treaty that passed Advise and Consent in the Senate and was ratified by President Bush.
Note: The Senate does not ratify treaties.
Hully gee!! Simon Stiell managed to make a statement where everything was 180 degrees from reality. That takes true effort to avoid any contact with reality.
Climate Alarmist True Believers live on a different planet.
He couldn’t prove one claim he made about CO2 and any connection to Earth’s climate or weather, yet he believes what he says is true.
Delusional.
Weather dependant and weather fragile.
Recent storm damage SW UK. £repairs.
“Green energy” appears to extremely vulnerable- not just to the weather but certainly to terrorists or any enemy during a war.
Everyone stop calling these “treaties.” They are informal, nonbinding agreements. Treaties require Senate approval.
FCCC is a treaty via Senate Advise and Consent and Presidential (Bush) ratification. 1992
It is the only ratified treaty of which I am aware.
Trying to create some FUD. And preaching to the choir, of course.
This is what I voted for. Winning. And more winning. The Grauniad can side with the losers and self-imposed poverty all they want. Americans like winning.
” continue pushing for climate justice ”
This euphemism gives away what the kerfuffle is about. The U. N. wants a big pot of money they can skim from and feed to the parasites of the authoritarian countries.
“The economics of the [low-carbon] transition look ever more attractive. Every time we look at the science it looks more worrying, and every time we look at the technology it is more encouraging. In an increasingly insecure world, countries and industries will be seeking independence from fossil fuels and the great volatility such dependence brings.”
Wow! That is what they see? Must need new glasses!
Yes, the Climate Alarmists are delusional. The real world is just the opposite of the way they see things.
There is no climate crisis. There is no evidence that CO2 has had, or will have, any detrimental effects to the Earth’s climate or weather.
Thinking there is evidence means they are delusional.
If the economics were attractive…
If the science was worrying…
If the technology was encouraging…
There would be no need for government interventions.
It is the hypocrisy of the trans-reality alarmists that is worrying.
I almost feel sorry for the people who live in those countries that waste a ton of money on this wind/solar garbage. Almost. And then I remember that the majority of them voted for this.
Just like I almost feel sorry for Venezuelans. But they voted in Chavez/socialism and kept voting for socialism.
Every country gets the government it deserves.
-Joseph de Maistre
Chris Wright calls it ‘the greatest malinvestment in human history’.
I wouldn’t call it an investment. I’d call it a huge con that makes Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff look like rank amateurs.
Thanks for that link. I searched for it on YouTube but couldn’t find it- but your line gave the YouTube link- which I prefer to use to send to all the climatistas here in Wokeachusetts.
If our elections are rigged most likely Socialist governments are as well
All elections have some fraud. One needs to make sure the margin of victory is ‘too big to rig’.
Some of the fraud in 2020’s US election is finally coming to light. Likely enough that Trump would have won. Fortunately, the dimwitocrats were able to steal the election (does anyone honestly believe that Joe Biden got 81 million votes???) because Trump’s team did a lot of preparation in those 4 intervening years. And we are seeing positive changes that never would have happened without that time to reflect.
Title of above article says:
“Guardian: Withdrawing from Climate Treaties will Make the USA Poorer”
I say, let’s try it and see what happens. 🙂
That certainly can’t be any worse than where we are now.
These guys are pitiful, Trump pulling out of these organizations has nothing to do with the decisions the US makes concerning it’s power sources. That is the wonder of the market, the systems that work will be here tomorrow the systems that don’t won’t. If wind and solar ever became affordable, reliable, dependable, 24/7, stopped killing wildlife and so on the US is free to use them whether we belong to these corrupt organizations or not. Losing is an ugly thing and painful to watch.
Wind and solar will never be viable without govt subsidies. Hydro is the only viable renewable.
A few weeks back, China held a military event around Taiwan. It was a powerful display of their naval and air forces. None of the power on display came from solar panels or wind turbines!.
In fact, China appears upset with USA interfering with their investment in oil resources in Venezuela.
Can you imagine Europe maintaining ground forces in Ukraine? Norway is the EU country with oil surplus.
“For much of the last 30 years, the rest of the world has been forced to persevere with climate action in the face of US intransigence”
Well always lead with the big lie. USA’s CO2 emissions have been falling for 30 years, scarcely intransigence. This was driven by economics as much as anything. Admittedly they started from a high place, but the rate of reduction in tonnes/person/year is as high as any other country.
We can always depend on The Guardian and its alarmist sidekick the BBC to start beating the climate crisis drum every few days. The reality is more likely that those countries that keep spending money on unreliable energy sources will become poorer, while those adhering to proven dependable types will prosper. But most of the mainstream media doesn’t like to publicize reality; it prefers to advance fantasy-world scenarios.
Go Trumpie, savage those Green Gangsters.
More baseless claims given media attention.
And President Trump will be at Davos in a couple of weeks to deliver the keynote address to the WEF gentry. I am looking forward to hearing his lecture to them about the Climate Scam.
Tried to check online “The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2026 conference is currently taking place in Davos, Switzerland, from January 19-23, 2026, under the theme “A Spirit of Dialogue”. The specific details of the individual keynote addresses are part of the ongoing, closed-door sessions, but the overall program focuses on key global challenges.”
Who is the speaker really?
Isn’t making the USA poorer exactly what the USA hating extreme left want?
Trump has played right into their hands 🤣
Humor – a difficult concept
— Lt. Saavik
Virtually every one of those lurid statements from the Grauniad is complete garbage – almost laughable that they’re still trying so so hard to make it a catastrophe in the face of some variable weather and a nice sunny 2025 here in the UK..
A lot less grifters and ‘frameworks’ by all accounts-
US withdraws from 66 international organizations | Watch