President Donald Trump will withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, according to news reports, sparking claims that the president is ceding “climate leadership” to China. Former Obama administration officials and climate diplomacy experts further argue that withdrawing from the Paris Agreement would do “very significant damage to U.S. standing in the world,” including […]
Two days ago unidentified confidants suggested he would really pull out. Now more unnamed sources have more details about the announcement that is apparently imminent. Headlines are telling us that Trump Withdraws from Paris Climate Change, but Trump hasn’t (yet).
Are you excited?
Scoop: Trump is pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal
President Trump has made his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the decision. Details on how the withdrawal will be executed are being worked out by a small team including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. They’re deciding on whether to initiate a full, formal withdrawal — which could take 3 years — or exit the underlying United Nations climate change treaty, which would be faster but more extreme.
Thanks to ClimateDepot, The Hill tells us:
CBS News also reported that Trump is telling allies about his decision. The move marks a dramatic departure from the Obama administration, which was instrumental in crafting the deal. It also makes the U.S. an outlier among the world’s nations, nearly all of whom support the climate change accord. But Trump’s decision fulfills an original campaign promise he made just over a year ago to “cancel” the […]
President Donald Trump hasn’t yet decided whether to keep the U.S. in the landmark Paris agreement on climate change but is leaning toward exiting the accord, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The administration is preparing for several different outcomes and is lining up experts to speak to the media when an announcement is made, according to another person familiar with the discussions who, like the others, requested anonymity ahead of a decision.
Top administration officials are divided on what to do, with some, including Ivanka Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging Trump to stay in the deal. Others, including Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, lead a faction that wants a U.S. exit.
There is consensus in the administration that the terms of the Paris deal must change, and it’s exploring whether that requires a full exit or a scaled-back U.S. commitment to cut emissions, according to one of the people. Trump is scheduled to meet with Tillerson at the White House on Wednesday, and the president said he’d declare an outcome soon.
“I will be announcing my decision on the Paris Accord over the next few days,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday.
Trump’s decision is highly anticipated, and leaders of the six other nations in the Group of Seven heavily lobbied him at a summit in Sicily last week to keep the U.S. in the pact. But Trump has called climate change a “hoax” and criticized the deal as “one-sided” against the U.S. White House legal advisers have warned that staying in the accord could undercut Trump’s efforts to rescind rules on power-plant emissions and methane leaks.
Axios reported earlier Wednesday that the president would exit the Paris deal, and the New York Times followed with a report that he is likely to pull the U.S. out of the accord. Several administration officials contacted by Bloomberg said that a decision hadn’t yet been made, and Trump has a record of shifting course on major decisions up until the last moment.
Word is that President Trump is keeping his campaign promise and will bail the US out of the fake and disastrous Paris “Climate” Treaty. Progressives will predictably start blaming all bad weather on the President, like they blamed witches for bad weather in the 16th century.
Never mind that their hero, James Hansen, agrees with Trump that the treaty is a scam.
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