Curtis Ellis: Trump and the Paris Climate Accord–Another Promise Kept
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CURTIS ELLIS11 Nov 201939
4:20
On November 4, 2019, President Trump made good on yet another promise to the American people.
That was the day the Trump administration formally
notified the U.N. that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords.
This fulfills the promise Donald J. Trump made on the campaign trail and renewed soon after taking office when he declared his
intent to pull out of the globalist compact.
In doing so, President Trump has upheld his commitment to put the interests of the American people and America first.
President Trump has rejected the alarmism, globalist groupthink and questionable premises the climate change activists have used to justify unnecessary costs, taxes and regulations that would cripple our economic growth and prosperity.
The U.N. agreement has numerous infirmities, not the least of which is the massive drain it would impose on the U.S. economy.
The Paris accord would force the United States to cut its carbon emissions – which means energy use and industry – by almost a third from 2005 levels. Meanwhile, China – already the greatest polluter on earth – would be allowed to actually increase the amount of greenhouse gases it dumps into the atmosphere.
The Paris Agreement is projected to kill as many as 2.7 million jobs within the United States by 2025, according to the National Economic Research Associates.
It would crush America’s coal, energy and manufacturing industries with austerity measures imposed by unaccountable opaque international bureaucracies.
The Heritage Foundation
says this part of the “climate” agreement alone amounts to a $2.5 trillion tax on the American people—an estimated $30,000 per family.
But there’s more. American taxpayers would also foot the bill for a multi-billion dollar “green energy fund” that would be redistributed to most of the other 170 nations in the agreement, including dictatorships and some of the most corrupt countries on Earth.
If that were not reason enough to run away, the overall effect of the agreement would be practically nonexistent.
According to
Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, an economist who studied the accord, even if every nation fulfilled each of its commitments in the compacts (which no one expects) global temperature reduction would be only five hundredths of a degree – 0.05°C – by 2100.
In critiquing the Paris deal, CNBC senior columnist Jack Novak
wrote, “big-government and centrally-planned schemes like the Paris deal are the problem,” rather than the solution to the current environmental challenges.
Clearly, the accords were designed for virtue signaling by the globalist elites and financiers who make up the “green” special interest lobby rather than for actually improving the environment. President Trump pointed this out in 2017 when he labeled the CEOs who left an administration advisory council to protest his Paris Accord announcement as “
grandstanders.”
Billionaires like Michael Bloomberg – who is the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Action – pay homage to the environment for the cameras, but their primary concern is making money.
