Adieu Accord de Paris

[Dill]

(06-02-2017, 09:44 AM)Vlad Wrote: Wake up climate sheeple!

Unsurprisingly, the sum of many pledges to do nothing is: nothing. 

While everyone else both literally and figuratively mailed in their commitments, the president (Obama) pledged a dramatic reduction in U.S. emissions: 26 to 28 percent below their 2005 level by 2025. To further grease the skids of international diplomacy, he committed the United States to lead the transfer of $100 billion in annual “climate finance” from the developed world to the developing countries that are pledging nothing.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434412/paris-climate-agreement-americans-foot-bill-no-effect-climate

LOL Fox News was reinforcing this talking point all day.

The "sum of many pledges" in this case was that almost every country in the world had begun addressing climate change as part of their national policy, including formerly recalcitrant China. It is the US pledge--along with US credibility--which now amounts to nothing.  

And with the Accord there was a platform for coordinating policy internationally. The US took the lead in organizing this. Now the lead is ceded to China, France and Germany.

Once you get out of the bubble, you find that other countries were not "mailing in their commitments."

Why not read some foreign sources for a change?

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/06/02/06/48/australia-sticking-by-paris-climate-deal
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/donald-trump-pulls-us-out-of-paris-climate-deal-concerned-over-india-china-5-things-to-know/story-bIjcjTUhSLYDg5J5vSERML.html