Trump says U.S. will withdraw from Paris climate accord

[Drumboy44]

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, spurning pleas from U.S. allies and corporate leaders in an action that fulfilled a major campaign pledge.

"We're getting out," Trump said at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden in which he decried the Paris accord's "draconian" financial and economic burdens.

"In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord," Trump said. But he added that the United States would begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris accord or "a new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers."

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN18R1J4

What kind of repercussions could America see?

 

[Green]

It's good to know we'll all have jobs when the air is no longer breathable >.>

 

[KYprep]

Good!

 

[Obreid]

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, spurning pleas from U.S. allies and corporate leaders in an action that fulfilled a major campaign pledge.

"We're getting out," Trump said at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden in which he decried the Paris accord's "draconian" financial and economic burdens.

"In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord," Trump said. But he added that the United States would begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris accord or "a new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers."

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN18R1J4

What kind of repercussions could America see?

I might be able to stomach some of the goals IF the same rules applied to all countries. China and India have been exempted from the stringent controls enacted on the west, thus you have Beijing population walking around in smog worse than the steel towns of Pennsylvania in 40's and 50's.
Why has Europe not reached their goals over the course of last decade? Because their green energy production doesn't keep up and they end up using their coal plants more than they want.
Also why did the German auto makers have to fudge their auto emissions results on their cars comming to the US? Surely Environmental guidelines in Germany are tougher than the US and they would have no need of fudging data to allow their cars to be imported into the US.
My parting thought would be and forgive me the sarcasm. Why if the oceans are going to rise and swamp all the coast of the earth did Al Gore buy an ocean front house in San Fran.
Are we responsible for the environment you bet but the founder of the weather channel AND Greenpeace have both came out and said the climate debate is a boondoggle.
Climate changes on its own much more readily on its own with out the help of man. Americans historically drink beer and distilled liquor because when it was colonized the climate was enough cooler grapes could not easily be grown in North America. It will change again and we'll adapt.

 

[krzepice1976]

China's state news agency Xinhua described U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord as a "global setback" and rejected Trump's claim that it would lead to many more jobs in America.
In a commentary published on Friday, Xinhua suggested that no one country was now likely take up leadership of global efforts to fight climate change.
China overtook the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007 but analysts see the U.S. withdrawal as an opportunity for China to burnish its image as a global leader
"Trump's decision to ditch the Paris deal will leave a fairly big shoe for a single country to fill," Xinhua said, adding that major players such as China, the European Union and India had reiterated their willingness to step up efforts.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN18T06W

 

[krzepice1976]

China and the European Union have reaffirmed their commitments to fight global warming but the pair have failed to agree on a formal climate state due to divisions over trade.

Friday's development came a day after President Donald Trump announced a US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

Speaking alongside Li Keqiang, China's premier, on Friday, the EU's Donald Tusk said efforts to reduce pollution and combat rising sea levels would now continue without the US.

But the differences over trade and steel production underscored the differences in a sometimes difficult EU-China relationship.
We are convinced that yesterday's decision by the United States to leave the Paris agreement is a big mistake," Tusk, who chairs EU summits as the head of the European Council, told a news conference with Li and Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU's chief executive.

"The fight against climate change, and all the research, innovation and technological progress it will bring, will continue, with or without the US."

In their meeting, the three leaders committed to cutting back on fossil fuels, developing more green technology and helping raise funds to help poorer countries cut their emissions, but a dispute about trade ties scuppered plans for a formal joint statement.

Despite what officials described as a warm meeting, China and the EU could not agree on a broader final communique meant to focus on a range of other issues discussed at the talks, including a commitment to free trade and measures needed to reduce a global steel glut.

The leaders' news conference was delayed for three hours as they sought to find agreement.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/eu-china-trade-spat-scuppers-joint-climate-statement-170602154109163.html