US tells UN it is pulling out of Paris climate deal

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With a hand-delivered letter, the U.S. is the first nation to pull out of the deal. Agreement rules prevented any country from pulling out in the first three years after the Nov. 4, 2016, ratification.

President Donald Trump has been promising withdrawal for two years, but Monday was the first time he could actually do it.

Trump's decision was condemned as a reckless failure of leadership by environmental experts, activists and critics such as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"Donald Trump is the worst president in history for our climate and our clean air and water," said Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club. "Long after Trump is out of office, his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement will be seen as a historic error."

The agreement set goals of preventing another 0.9 degrees (0.5 degrees Celsius) to 1.8 degrees (1 degree Celsius) of warming from current levels. Even the pledges made in 2015 weren't enough to prevent those levels of warming.

http://www.startribune.com/us-tells-un-it-is-bidding-adieu-to-paris-climate-deal/564370682/
 
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Huh...wonder why our good comrade buried this tid bit here?

So what's the point of pulling out of a non-binding agreement?

Why would the Universe's Greatest Negotiator pull out of a deal that has new negotiations built in for next year? The following is from the good comrade's article:

The deal calls for nations to come up with more ambitious pollution cuts every five years, starting in November 2020. Because of the expected withdrawal, the U.S. role in 2020 negotiations will be reduced, experts said.
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And why does spitbubble think this is a wealth transfer to global elites? Again the following is from the comrade's article:
"The U.S. agreement is not a tax on the American people. There is no massive wealth transfer," said Climate Advisers CEO Nigel Purvis, who was a lead State Department climate negotiator in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. "In fact, the agreement obligates no country to make any financial payments."

Pompeo said U.S. net greenhouse gas emissions dropped 13% from 2005 to 2017 "even as our economy grew over 19 percent."
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Here is a better question for spitbubble: why is she so concerned about "global elites" making money off the US when she voted for and is a cult like supporter of a President who is using the Office of the President as a marketing tool for his hotels?
 
stgislander

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And even with pulling out of the PCA, the USA is likely doing more to reduce its emissions than any of the other signatory nations.
 
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