Trump says he’s withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement again

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-20 23:46:09 | Updated at 2025-01-23 16:49:08 2 days ago

Trump says he’s withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement again
AP News ^ | Updated 3:10 PM CST, January 20, 2025 | MATTHEW DALY and SETH BORENSTEIN

Posted on 01/20/2025 3:12:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he will again withdraw the United States, a top carbon polluting nation, from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies.

The White House announcement, which came as Trump was sworn in Monday to a second term, echoed Trump’s actions in 2017, when he announced that the U.S. would abandon the global Paris accord. The pact is aimed at limiting long-term global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels or, failing that, keeping temperatures at least well below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels.

The 2015 Paris agreement is voluntary and allows nations to provide targets to cut their own emissions of greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Those targets are supposed to become more stringent over time, with countries facing a February 2025 deadline for new individual plans. The outgoing Biden administration last month offered a plan to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% by 2035.

Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation and a key architect of the Paris agreement, called the planned U.S. withdrawal unfortunate but said action to slow climate change “is stronger than any single country’s politics and policies.”

The global context for Trump’s action is “very different to 2017,’' Tubiana said, adding that “there is unstoppable economic momentum behind the global transition, which the U.S has gained from and led but now risks forfeiting.”

The International Energy Agency expects the global market for key clean energy technologies to triple to more than $2 trillion by 2035, she said.

“The impacts of the climate crisis are also worsening. The terrible wildfires in Los Angeles are…

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2015; agw; climate; conjob; ohnoes; parisaccords; parisclimateaccord; ripoff; scam; thehorror; weredoomed

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China is building a hundred unscrubbed coal power plants a year, but the US is "a top carbon polluting nation."

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Okay so this whole 4 year see saw needs to stop. This is a reminder of how vital this movement remains beyond Trump and beyond this term.

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do not forget India as a major polluter.

3 posted on 01/20/2025 3:15:11 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")

To: E. Pluribus Unum

"China is building a hundred unscrubbed coal power plants a year, but the US is "a top carbon polluting nation."

Yeah, make sense of that with the Greenies. DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!

4 posted on 01/20/2025 3:15:33 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

5 posted on 01/20/2025 3:15:54 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Excellent! We need to extricate our country from this scam.

6 posted on 01/20/2025 3:17:27 PM PST by Allegra (It’s MAGA time! )

To: CondoleezzaProtege

It’s not enough to win an election.

7 posted on 01/20/2025 3:20:17 PM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)

To: CondoleezzaProtege

“the United States, a top carbon polluting nation“

AP is a cancer

8 posted on 01/20/2025 3:20:18 PM PST by iamgalt

To: E. Pluribus Unum

THE WINNING!

NOT TIRED AT ALL!!!

9 posted on 01/20/2025 3:21:02 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump should call Traitor General Milley back into service and bust him to private.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stupid governments are using the Paris climate agreement to destroy their countries

10 posted on 01/20/2025 3:21:31 PM PST by butlerweave

To: E. Pluribus Unum

This climate change crap started in the 60’s with “THE ICE AGE IS COMING!!! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!

It started with The Club Of Rome, precursor to the WEF.

Enough said.

11 posted on 01/20/2025 3:21:32 PM PST by lizma2

To: E. Pluribus Unum

...dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming...

...and the grift. Do we still have to eat ze bugs?

12 posted on 01/20/2025 3:22:06 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

The world is now long-term 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.3 degrees Celsius) above mid-1800s temperature

everyone sees the lie there................right?

13 posted on 01/20/2025 3:22:34 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

The A.P. Is beyond moronic.

Stalin would have loved them.

14 posted on 01/20/2025 3:33:20 PM PST by lizma2

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nothing but a tax scam and worse.

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Notice the way not one country has a plan to do this. No mitigation strategies in case they overshoot, no idea who gets the money and what the money will be used for. There is no project plan, and I submit to this forum that cutting emissions by 60% by 2035 is nothing more than a lie that the people who are lying won’t be around to be held accountable. Plus, Al Gore already discredited the narrative all by himself.

16 posted on 01/20/2025 3:36:52 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Drill Baby Drill!)

To: EQAndyBuzz

Plus, Al Gore already discredited the narrative all by himself.

Not one of his global warming religious prophecies from "An Inconvenient Truth" have come true.

17 posted on 01/20/2025 3:39:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

“The International Energy Agency expects the global market for key clean energy technologies to triple to more than $2 trillion by 2035, she said. ... “The impacts of the climate crisis are also worsening.”

cause and effect, there, lady?

18 posted on 01/20/2025 3:40:35 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))

To: E. Pluribus Unum

,,, the future lies in building private jets to get delegates to climate conferences.

19 posted on 01/20/2025 3:40:43 PM PST by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)

To: catnipman

“The International Energy Agency expects the global market for key clean energy technologies to triple to more than $2 trillion by 2035, she said. ...

the wrong thinking there is that it is all about economic activity. spending.

They have concept of what wealth is.

20 posted on 01/20/2025 3:44:13 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)

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