Politics Democrats vent but can't stop Trump from leaving Paris climate agreement

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...mp-leaving-paris-climate-agreement/102343042/

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers slammed President Trump on Wednesday as news spread that he plans to pull out of the Paris climate accord, but there's not much they can do to about it if he does.

Trump announced on Twitter that he will make a decision on Thursday, and news reports Wednesday indicated he is moving toward withdrawal.

A Republican-controlled Congress couldn't stop President Barack Obama in 2015 from signing on to the treaty designed to cut lower the risks of climate change by cutting emissions, and the Democrats can't stop Trump from pulling America out of the landmark deal signed by more than 190 countries.

The deal is considered an executive agreement, and therefore not a traditional treaty requiring ratification by two-thirds of the Senate, because it doesn't bind the country to certain outcomes such as specific reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It was a point highlighted by environmental activists two years ago when explaining why Obama could sign on to the accord without congressional consent.

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Nearly two dozen Republican senators, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, wrote a letter last month to the president urging him to pull out of the deal because it threatens the Trump agenda to roll back regulations and boost the economy.

 

Treaties are the law of the land, according to the Constitution. This is no treaty, it wasn't voted on by congress.

I don't think it's about the cut in carbon emissions that's the problem. It's the money we're spending on other countries' efforts to follow suit. Obama signed us up to lead the transfer of $100B in annual "climate finance" from the developed world to the developing countries that pledge nothing.

 

Republican Congressman Says God Will 'Take Care Of' Climate Change

Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg said during a town hall in Coldwater, Mich., on Friday that while he believes climate change is real, it is not something for humans to solve.


"I believe there's climate change. I believe there's been climate change since the beginning of time," Walberg said. "Do I think man has some impact? Yeah, of course. Can man change the entire universe? No."

He continued: "Why do I believe that? Well, as a Christian, I believe that there is a creator in God who is much bigger than us. And I'm confident that, if there's a real problem, he can take care of it."

http://time.com/4800000/tim-walberg-god-climate-change/

 

There's no evidence this accord accomplishes anything other than the transfer of money from the US to other countries, and a hit to our GDP.

It's one more step toward erasing what damage Obama did.

 

Since some of us can't read more than 140 characters:

 

I state that the goals of this accord and the models disagree. The models, the UN, etc., all say this agreement will accomplish nothing. It will not accomplish any stated goal.

 

Coal will save China and India and Pakistan. Hundreds of new coal plants being built there. Not here.

Getting out of this bad deal doesn't mean we're going to open the floodgates. It's likely we will still meet the emissions targets in the agreement regardless of the agreement in place or not.

 

Fire and brimstone. Preach on!

 

Preach on. We'll burn in hell if we don't obey!