"Donald Trump’s “Screw You” to the World"
By John Cassidy, June 1, 2017
"He added, “The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement. They went wild. . . . For the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of America, which we all love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage. . . . The agreement is a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries.”"
NOTHING could be farther from fact or truth, but then Tweety is the King of Fake News, alt-facts, and lies. The Accord is about goals and is non-binding and forces no country to do anything to diminish the country unless they do so voluntarily. The Paris Accord was a huge SYMBOL, a SYMBOL for World Unity and Commitment, and Tweety did not get it.
Tweety said in his speech that the world laughed when the United States agreed to the Paris Accord. Tweety does not know praise when he sees or hears it. Of course the world was not laughing at the United States at the final moment when they became the 195th country to sign the Pairs Accord. The Paris Accord was the MOST AMAZING EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD! And Tweety chose to shit on it! Tweety chose to shit on the world and 194 countries.
"Sorry, Donald: Pittsburgh Thinks You Are Wrong About Climate Change"
The president says he represents Pittsburgh, not Paris. Pittsburgh's mayor isn't happy.
Jeremy SchulmanJun. 1, 2017 5:03 PM
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/trump-pittsburgh-wrong
"Roughly two-thirds of Pennsylvanians—and Americans as a whole—believe the United States should remain in the Paris agreement, according to the Yale research."
The Mayor of Pittsburgh said he wants to stay in the Paris Accord essentially, and Pittsburgh is not the "ghetto" Tweety implied.
Truth is in FACTS, not skewed opinion . . .
"What Is the Green Climate Fund and How Much Does the U.S. Actually Pay?"
By NADJA POPOVICH and HENRY FOUNTAIN JUNE 2, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/02/climate/trump-paris-green-climate-fund.html?_r=0
"In announcing his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, President Trump also said the United States would stop contributing to the Green Climate Fund, a United Nations program that he claimed could eventually cost the country “billions and billions and billions” of dollars.
How much have rich countries pledged?
Industrialized countries have voluntarily pledged $10.3 billion since 2013 to help poorer nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the effects of climate change. The United States has pledged by far the most — $3 billion, twice that of the second-largest pledger, Japan. But on a per-capita basis, many other countries have offered more than the United States. Swedes, for example, will contribute nearly $60 each.
Per Person Contributions to the Green Climate Fund
If countries fulfill their signed pledges
Sweden
$59.31
Luxembourg
58.63
Norway
50.20
Monaco
28.89
Britain
18.77
France
15.64
Denmark
12.73
Germany
12.40
Switzerland
12.21
Japan
11.80
9.41
United States
If the U.S. fulfilled its original $3 billion committment
Finland
8.49
Netherlands
7.94
Australia
7.92
Canada
7.79
Belgium
6.18
Italy
4.54
Austria
4.09
Spain
3.46
South Korea
1.99
Source: Green Climate Fund
If the United States contributed its full pledge, the total would be a little less than $10 per American. With Mr. Trump stopping payments, the United States will have contributed $1 billion, or just more than $3 per person.
Where does the money go?
The fund has a portfolio of more than 40 projects, using $2.2 billion of its own money and $5 billion from development agencies and banks.
Approved Funding Proposals, as of October 2016
Source: Overseas Development Institute, G.C.F. press releases
Among the latest projects: development of irrigation and groundwater replenishment systems in northeastern India, where climate change has made monsoon rains less reliable; a hydropower plant in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific to eliminate diesel generators; and restoration and protection of Ugandan wetlands that are used by subsistence farmers."
"Bloomberg Promises $15 Million To Help Make Up For U.S. Withdrawal From Climate Deal"
June 2, 20171:58 PM ET
Bill Chappell
"Angela Merkel and the Insult of Trump’s Paris Climate-Accord Withdrawal"
By Amy Davidson, June 1, 2017
"On Wednesday, at around the time that news outlets were reporting that President Donald Trump had decided to pull America out of the Paris climate accord, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was at the Berlin airport, greeting Premier Li Keqiang, of China. As their national anthems played, Li and Merkel stood on a red carpet that had been cut to look like a giant arrow. It seemed to point definitively away from Trump. There was a connection between the two moments that was more than symbolic. China has made it clear that, with America’s abdication, it sees Paris as a vehicle for its efforts to assert itself as a leader of the international community. (Whether this means that it would also make sure that carbon emissions fell is another matter.) And Merkel, during the past few days, seemed to have had it with Trump, in some significant measure because of his flashy contempt for the climate deal and for his fellow world leaders.
That contempt was well on display on Thursday afternoon, when Trump confirmed America’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. In his remarks, delivered in the Rose Garden, Trump attacked not only the terms of the deal but also the goodwill of those who argued for it. He spoke like a man unravelling a conspiracy or a con job. The climate accord had been pushed by America’s economic rivals, whose real reason for wanting us to stay in was “so that we continue to suffer this self-inflicted major economic wound,” and by “global activists that have long sought to gain wealth at our country’s expense.” Paris was just a “scheme to redistribute wealth outside of the United States.” Only Trump really cared about the environment, and he would get a much better deal for it.
The only question now is how far away from America Merkel’s frustration leads the Chancellor, her country, and her continent. It’s not that she hasn’t tried; she even invited Ivanka Trump to Berlin, flattering her all the way. Last week, as Merkel endured Trump’s company at NATO and G7 meetings in Belgium and Italy—along with his boasts about the “unbelievable chemistry” that the two of them supposedly shared—she and the other leaders present made time to talk to him about the importance of protecting what had been gained for the planet in Paris. She said, later, at a press conference in Taormina, Italy, at the close of the G7, that, of all the points raised at the conferences, one that was “very difficult, not to say very dissatisfying, was the entire conversation on the subject of climate change.”"
Tweety has awakened a sleeping giant!
"China's Xi Jinping says Paris climate deal must not be allowed to fail"
President says ‘we only have one homeland’ in a coded warning to Donald Trump not to dismantle the agreement"
"Fact-checking Trump’s speech on Paris climate agreement"
Vanessa Schipani, Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson and Robert Farley, FactCheck.org Published 9:21 a.m. ET June 2, 2017 | Updated 1:48 p.m. ET June 2, 2017
" - Trump called China and India the “world’s leading polluters,” referring to carbon emissions. That’s not accurate. China and the U.S. were the top emitters per kiloton in 2015.
- The president also falsely said “nobody even knows where the money [in the Green Climate Fund] is going to.” The fund’s website outlines all of the projects that have been funded.
- Trump said the agreement would cost “close to $3 trillion in lost GDP.” That’s one estimate from a report for a business-funded group that found a much smaller impact under a different scenario. Yet another analysis said the impact of meeting the emissions targets would be “modest.”
- Trump again took credit for job gains, saying the economy has added more than a million private sector jobs since his election. That’s true, but only 493,000 of them were added since he took office."
More . . . As I read the reports, there are as many as five (5) different cost scenarios, which makes any statement about the cost to the USA difficult at best. It is WRONG to say the USA would pay billions . . . . but it is unclear.
"In listing his reasons why the U.S. should pull out of the Paris climate agreement, Trump claimed that the U.S. would be exposed to “massive legal liability if we stay in.” But international environmental law experts say that that is not true"
"Trump Thinks We Spend “Billions and Billions and Billions” on the Paris Climate Deal. We Don’t."
By Ian Prasad Philbrick, 2June 2017
To start, the USA pollutes more than China, India, or anyone, so we pay up our dues.
"Grammatically speaking, “billions and billions and billions of dollars” is a minimum of $6 billion. As the New York Times reported Thursday, the U.S. has promised to supply up to $3 billion in aid for developing nations by 2020 to help them meet their emissions-cutting goals. That aid is part of a collective pool called the Green Climate Fund, as Trump says, which is administered by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, according to the Paris Agreement. While $3 billion may sound like a lot of money to most people, for the United States government, which took in some $16.5 trillion in GDP last year, it’s a pretty paltry sum. And it isn’t even an annual contribution. As of May, the U.S. has kicked in a third of its $3 billion pledge to the fund, according to the Washington Post."
More . . . We pollute so we pay. Isn't that fair?
"Trump railed against how “many [countries] will never pay one dime,” but many countries will never poison the planet as much as we have, either."
Leave the Paris Accord, insult NATO Allies, praise dictators, whine incoherently and incorrectly about balance of trade deficits, and expect UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
In his isolationist pose, Tweety is turning the World over to China and Russia to lead.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES are about to descend upon America and the World. JObs will be a net LOSS by leaving the treaty, but lets hope the individual Governors and States overcome Tweety's mistake. The Governors and States can stay in the Paris Accord on their own, and let Tweety and his foolish advisor, Bannon, take a seat in the back of the bus.
"Will Trump's Paris agreement exit spur job growth?"
By Irina Ivanova Money Watch June 2, 2017, 12:39 PM
Last Updated Jun 2, 2017 12:39 PM EDT
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/job-growth-trump-paris-agreement-pullout-fact-check/
What I fear is that Tweety and his cronies in Congress did not understand the benefits of the Paris Accord, and has ruined America's chances to benefit from it. The cronies talk about a tax increase, but ignore jobs and income. These are the people to balance our budget and it scares me that they do not know how to add and subtract.
"President Donald Trump's move to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord will, critics of the global treaty say, spur job growth and lower Americans' energy costs. Are they right?
Most experts think not. Indeed, shifting to a clean-energy economy has greater potential to boost employment, economists say. In a sign of how far along the U.S. is in that transformation, more than twice as many people were employed in the solar sector last year than in coal mining, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The only energy sector with more workers is oil."
"President Trump, in his announcement Thursday, claimed the accord would cost the U.S. 2.7 million jobs by 2025. But the evidence he referenced, from the pro-business American Council for Capital Formation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is at best incomplete.
As its authors wrote in a footnote, the research cited by Mr. Trump "does not take into account potential benefits from avoided emissions," and "the study results are not a benefit-cost analysis of climate change.""
The study Tweety references, but I am sure he did not read, is FLAWED, and even has footnotes to say it is not a complete cost-benefit analysis.
"In other words, the estimate of jobs lost from America's participation in the Paris deal doesn't account for the positive effects of slowing down sea-level rise, or the potential economic benefits of fewer people dying from heatstroke. It also doesn't account for the savings from fewer extreme weather events, like tornadoes, floods and hurricanes, whose damage is made more severe in a warmer climate.
The study has other flaws that a number of groups brought up when it was first issued in March. In calculating the costs that businesses would incur to lower their carbon impact, the study assumes the highest-cost option, instead of the lowest. "
Tweety also demonstrated America is an unreliable partner, no longer a trustworthy world leader. Tweety ha never shown himself to be a moral man, and now he has shown he lacks the wisdom as well to stay with a promise made by America to defend the planet.
"Quitting the Paris climate agreement is a moral disgrace"
President Trump is selling out our kids to give false hope to coal workers.
Updated by Jim Tankersley Jun 1, 2017, 3:45pm EDT
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/31/15719386/trump-paris-climate-agreement-moral-failure
"No laid-off coal miners will get their jobs back from President Trump pulling the United States from the Paris accord on climate change. No extra oil rigs will sprout in the Gulf. There is no employment upside to an "America First" retreat from global leadership on one of the few issues that can accurately be described as a potentially existential threat to humankind.
There is only the profound immorality of abdication — of gleefully passing a mounting problem on to our children, and on to the poor."
Tweety's lack of awareness of the impact of his decision is appalling.
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The decision will punish the poor
For the global poor, the reduced ambition could prove disastrous. The World Bank estimates climate effects could push 100 million people worldwide into poverty over the next 15 years. A recent report from the Climate Impact Lab projects that the most damaging effects of climate change will be concentrated in "hot, poor countries" in regions such as Latin America and Southeast Asia, and in sub-Saharan Africa, where climate change is already associated with falling crop production due to record-setting drought.
"In our benchmark estimate," the authors write, "average income in the poorest 40% of countries declines 75% by 2100 relative to a world without climate change." Richer, cooler countries in Europe tend to fare better, but, notably, not the United States. It would suffer economically — and on the international stage.
"It's morally reprehensible to walk away from climate action," says Keya Chatterjee, the executive director of the US Climate Action Network. "It's an act everyone will recall as kids gasp for air during heat waves, as homes are wiped out by larger storms, as larger fires displace homes, and as droughts lead to crop failure.""
Tweety appears to still be getting his ideas from S. Bannon, a man not really clever or smart for an interconnected world. America leaving the Paris Accord for fake reasons, Tweety said "draconian burdens" and "jobs," , will wake a sleeping giant.
The rest of the Western World Order will see they have to stand without America, AND THE WILL SUCCEED. The world will never see so much "winning" as when they realized America is an UNRELIABLE and UNTRUSTWORTY leader.
America's Governors will be invited and will attend the World Order conferences on business and environmental matters, with our Tweeting President allowed to attend, but not as an invited "member" of the World Order.
The Governors may sign the Paris Accord representing their state; perhaps California's Governor will be the first to do so. he is planning a trip to China as I write this. China can be a major World Leader as America falls by the wayside.
It is not surpriseTweety seeks to keep his 3-38% base by withdrawing from the Paris Accord. There are more jobs in alternative energy than coal, but Tweety does not care.
Bottom line: America withdrawing from the World Order might be overdue for some reasons, but it would be better to try to improve it than run away. We are showing our inner racist in many ways, as I spoke in my last blog. No, racism is not the only reason we fear and loath European. We gear European power and growing stability too.
