Three Cheers for President Trump’s Action Today
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I have to hand it to President Trump. He has now done what he said he would do by removing the US from the Paris climate non-treaty “Treaty.” The climate alarmists have predictably gone bonkers even though there is no objective basis for their concerns. Mr. Trump based his decision on the disproportionate cost of the “Treaty” to the US. He is absolutely right about this, of course. The less developed countries signed onto the “Treaty” on the assumption that Uncle Sugar would pay hundreds of billions to them. And if Mrs. Clinton had been elected, that very likely would have happened despite the US Government’s slipping finances. I see no basis for doing so.
Happily, it turned out that more CO2 molecules in the atmosphere do not make a significant contribution to global warming in the real world. And there is a need for more atmospheric CO2, not less, if plants are to survive future ice ages. And some added warmth would help too, so long as there is no catastrophic global warming. So everyone wins. Plants get more CO2; humans and other animals get to use more plants. Humans get to use fossil fuels to aid them in their work. And as a free bonus for plants, humans emit increased CO2 for their use. What’s not to like? No one planned it that way, but there are no known reasons to abandon the industrial/energy revolution that has had such dramatic effects on the human standard of living and made possible the enormous improvements in the the environment in recent centuries. Limits to Growth stimulated the current climate alarmist movement, but happily it was wrong again.
The Alarmists’ Shrill Complaints Can Be Dismissed
Unfortumately, the climate alarmists got the science backwards, and their shrill complaints can be dismissed as nonsense. President Trump has saved the US and its citizens hundreds of billions if not trillions. And these savings have no adverse effects on anyone other than those hoping for a redistribution of wealth to the less developed world. Hopefully the less developed world will lose interest now that the honey pot has been taken away.
So three cheers for President Obama’s action today on the US involvement (or the lack thereof) in the climate “Treaty.” There remains a need to revoke the EPA Endangerment Finding so that the alarmists cannot easily renew their war on plants if they should come to power again. But the removal of the US from the “Treaty” is a very good start.
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June 1, 2017 at 02:21PM
