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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">really bad code br0ke format see txt bak</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">who will speak for the greed? the Lorix!</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> spk for greed</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>COMMENTARY 3 min read</div><div>
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August 3, 2015</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">IER</span> President Thomas Pyle issued the following <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160521194514/http://americanenergyalliance.org/2015/08/03/obamas-carbon-rule-still-a-bad-deal-for-americans/" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">statement criticizing President Obama’s Clean Power Plan</a>:</b> <a href="https://www.desmog.com/institute-energy-research/#s50" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[50]</a></font></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px 35px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</span>The final version of President Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ is somehow more harmful than the proposed rule. It forces states to make even steeper cuts, it guts natural gas in favor of costly renewables, and it still has no effect on climate change. While the <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">EPA</span> touts these adjustments to the rule as a sign of ‘flexibility’, it’s really an admission that Obama needs states to do his dirty work. But state leaders shouldn’t give in to the administration’s bribery schemes. Regardless of these cosmetic changes to the rule, the fundamental flaws remain.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px 35px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="dquo" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</span>It’s important to remember that President Obama’s carbon regulation, the crown jewel of his climate legacy, has no impact on climate change.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="caps" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">EPA</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">’s own models [note triple faced BS] show that their </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">carbon rule will limit global temperature rise by a mere </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">0.018 degrees</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Celsius by 2100.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> That’s a bad deal for the American people. State leaders should protect their citizens from Obama’s costly carbon rule by refusing to submit a plan.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px 35px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[[</span><span open="open" sans="sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">The study, conducted by an international team led by researchers at University of Leeds, says that even if lockdown measures continue until the end of 2021—more than a year and a half in total—the planet may only cool by about 0.018 degrees Fahrenheit by 2030.]]</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px 35px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span open="open" sans="sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">{{</span><a href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/the-many-problems-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-primer">https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/the-many-problems-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-primer</a></font></p></blockquote><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></blockquote><h3 gotham="gotham" a="a" b="b" font-weight="font-weight" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Climate and Environmental Benefits: None</font></strong></h3><p gotham="gotham" a="a" b="b" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The trade-off that Americans receive for higher electricity rates, unemployment, and lower levels of prosperity is not an appealing one. Even though electricity generation accounts for the single-largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the estimated reduction is minuscule compared to global greenhouse gas emissions. Using the “Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change,” <b>developed with support from the EPA,</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">climatologists Paul Knappenberger and Patrick Michaels estimate that the climate regulations will avert a meager –<b>0.018 degree</b> Celsius (C) of warming by the year 2100.</span><a name="ftnref14" href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/the-many-problems-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-primer#ftn14" id="ftnref14" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">[14]</a></font></p><p gotham="gotham" a="a" b="b" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, the U.S. could cut its CO2 emissions 100 percent and it would not make a difference in global warming...</font></p><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/the-many-problems-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-primer#ftnref13" name="ftn13" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">[13]</a> Kevin D. Dayaratna, Nicolas Loris, and David W. Kreutzer, “The Obama Administration’s Climate Agenda Will Hit Manufacturing Hard: A State-by-State Analysis,” Heritage Foundation <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Backgrounder</i> No. 2990, February 17, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/02/the-obama-administrations-climate-agenda-will-hit-manufacturing-hard-a-state-by-state-analysis.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/the-many-problems-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-primer#ftnref14" name="ftn14" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">[14<b>]</b></a><b> Paul C. Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels, “0.02°C Temperature Rise Averted: The Vital Number Missing from the EPA’s ‘By the Numbers’ Fact Sheet,” <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cato at Liberty blog</span>, June 11, 2014,</b> http://www.cato.org/blog/002degc-temperature-rise-averted-vital-number-missing-epas-numbers-fact-sheet (accessed May 26, 2015).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/the-many-problems-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-primer#ftnref15" name="ftn15" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">[15]</a> Paul C. Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels, “Current Wisdom: We Calculate, You Decide: A Handy-Dandy Carbon Tax Temperature-Savings Calculator,” Cato at Liberty blog, July 23, 2013, http://www.cato.org/blog/current-wisdom-we-calculate-you-decide-handy-dandy-carbon-tax-temperature-savings-calculator (accessed May 26, 2015).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/the-many-problems-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-primer#ftnref16" name="ftn16" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">[16]</a> Judith A. Curry, “Statement to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the United States Senate,” January 16, 2014, http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=07472bb4-3eeb-42da-a49d-964165860275 (accessed May 26, 2015).</font></p></div><p gotham="gotham" a="a" b="b" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">}}</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Creatures of the Green Lagoon: San Francisco Mega-Foundations Bankrolling Eco-Activism (full series)</font></strong></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/creatures-of-the-green-lagoon-part-1/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Paris Rises from the Dead</a> | <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/creatures-of-the-green-lagoon-part-2/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Tom Steyer</a> | <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/creatures-of-the-green-lagoon-part-3/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Sea Change Foundation</a></font></font></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/creatures-of-the-green-lagoon-part-4/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/creatures-of-the-green-lagoon-part-4/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Energy Foundation</a> | <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/creatures-of-the-green-lagoon-part-5/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">ClimateWorks Foundation</a></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Summary:</span></strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> San Francisco is awash in five things: Homeless people, discarded needles, garbage, human feces, and virtually unlimited cash for the environmental Left. This once great city by the bay is ground zero for a bundle of mega-donors, pass-through funders, and powerful activist groups trying to “green” America’s prosperity and energy independence into oblivion</span><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);">. In its place they envision the<b> stuff of nightmares: the end of the oil, gas, and coal industries; nationwide fracking bans; a return to the Paris Climate Agreement; </b>an unprecedented spike in household energy prices;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> a radical Green New Deal; and <b>“environmental justice</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><b>” retribution to punish so-called climate polluters with fines and even prison sentences.</b></span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“Do as I say, not as I do”</b> [elite hypocrit bs]may as well be the motto of the environmental Left. From their<b> [ivory? biz?] towers, eco-mandarins prognosticate a coming climate apocalypse and the freedoms </b>we must sacrifice to stave it off.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"> Yet they almost never live with the consequences of their own policies. The same global warming gurus who tell Midwestern Americans the icecaps are melting and the seas are rising because Americans still drive cars live in the world’s toniest coastal cities and own<b> private yachts and jets.[not as many as putin or as bid, oligarch and FF ceos, joe manchin "houseboat?" NRA yacht for security?]]</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No city is a greater testament to climate <b>hypocrisy</b> than San Francisco, home to some of the eco-Left’s biggest mega-donors: the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/sea-change-foundation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Sea Change Foundation</a>, the pass-through <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/energy-foundation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Energy Foundation</a>, and Tom Steyer’s nonprofit network. Between them these giants have paid out over $2 <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">billion</span> in grants over the past two decades, almost all of it to left-wing groups lobbying for the disastrous Paris Climate Agreement, fracking bans, and a Green New Deal—the most <b>extreme</b> environmental policy agenda in American history. [vs NEPA et al signed by Nixon?]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);">This is the so-called New Energy Economy, paid for by billionaire hedge fund managers and ideologically motivated, tax-exempt foundations eager to remake America in their own image.</span><b style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"> Ironically, one of the billionaires, Steyer, earned much of his fortune trading in the oil and natural gas industry.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"> If they get their way, expect a grim future of poverty and “environmental justice”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> prosecution in Soviet-style “People’s Courts.” [what is basis for this bs?]</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);">Will </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Paris</span><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"> Rise from the Dead?</span></font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On November 4, 2020—the day after the presidential election—the United States formally withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord, an international climate change agreement entered into by President Barack Obama in 2015 and a major 2016 campaign promise of President Trump.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Obama officials negotiated the agreement as a foreign treaty, it never received a vote in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate—analysis strongly suggests that environmental groups even <a href="https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/11/04/ditch_parisand_save_america_582938.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">advised</a> the administration against describing Paris as a “treaty”—despite the Constitution’s clear requirement that foreign treaties must be ratified by the Senate. Nevertheless, proponents widely treated the agreement as legally binding (and so unassailable) because it f<b>orced enormous greenhouse gas emissions targets on the country.[NOT BINDING YOU FECK]</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By one <a href="https://www.heritage.org/impact/president-trump-cites-heritage-research-paris-climate-change-agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">estimate</a> </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/impact/president-trump-cites-heritage-research-paris-climate-change-agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.heritage.org/impact/president-trump-cites-heritage-research-paris-climate-change-agreement</a>   [note slIght of hAND]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">based on a U.S. Energy Department model, the Paris Climate Agreement could have cost the average family of four over $20,000 in lost income, raised household energy prices by as much as 20 percent, and cost the economy $2.5 trillion by 2035. Yet the effects on the global temperature would be minuscule. If United States cut <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">all</em> of its carbon dioxide (CO<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;">2</span>) emissions, it would result in an estimated decrease of less than <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/320522-paris-treaty-a-bad-deal-based-on-flawed-logichttps:/thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/320522-paris-treaty-a-bad-deal-based-on-flawed-logic" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">two-tenths of a degree</a> Celsius by the end of the century.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);">Trump’s withdrawal from the disastrous “treaty” [WHen was the last actual treaty signed?  last time congress declared war?  gop awash in dark FF $] was a landmark victory for</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> constitutional government </span><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);">and the American economy</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);">—</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">but under a Democratic administration that victory has been reversed, and the country has <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/paris-climate-agreement/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">reentered</a> the Paris Climate Agreement after President Joe Biden signed an executive order to that effect, as he <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/app/uploads/2020/11/biden-2020-energy-revolution-plan.-11.09.2020.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">promised</a> during presidential campaign to do on “Day One.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s a <b>scalp [odd slippage of metaphor, rt is master of character/hits]</b>for activists in the eco-Left, the loudest supporters of the Paris “treaty,” none more so than Tom Steyer.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/creatures-of-the-green-lagoon-part-2/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">next installment</a>, meet Tom Steyer—billionaire, major Democratic Party donor, former Democratic presidential candidate, and <b>dedicated environmentalist with a wide streak of authoritarianism [says the trump [putin?] fan].</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">REF who will spk for the greed?</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/impact/president-trump-cites-heritage-research-paris-climate-change-agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.heritage.org/impact/president-trump-cites-heritage-research-paris-climate-change-agreement</a></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MAY 15 NO NAME "HERITAGE IMPACT]</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">PResident Donald Trump cited <a href="http://archive.org/details/CSPAN_20170430_060400_Pres.Trump_Harrisburg_speech_only/start/932.1/end/1010.1" target="blank" data-external="yes" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">Heritage Foundation research</a> on the Paris climate change agreement during his speech in Harrisburg, Pa., that marked his 100th day in office.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />“On top of that, it is estimated that for compliance with the agreement could ultimately shrink America’s GDP by $2.5 trillion over a 10 year period,” said Trump. <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The figure is drawn from <a href="http://www.heritage.org/environment/report/consequences-paris-protocol-devastating-economic-costs-essentially-zero" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">a report by Heritage experts Kevin Dayaratna, Nicolas Loris, and David Kreutzer</a>. They concluded that the Paris climate accord would inflict devastating economic costs for practical no environmental benefit.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.heritage.org/environment/report/consequences-paris-protocol-devastating-economic-costs-essentially-zero" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.heritage.org/environment/report/consequences-paris-protocol-devastating-economic-costs-essentially-zero</a></font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 2.5rem; border-left: 1px solid rgb(217, 227, 233); margin: 1.875rem 19.3438px 3.125rem 101.552px; line-height: 1.875rem; display: inline-block; clear: both; width: 589.979px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Policies adapted from domestic regulations emphasized in the Paris agreement will affect a variety of aspects of the American economy. As a result of the plan, one can expect that by 2035, there will be:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.77778;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; list-style: outside disc;">An overall average shortfall of nearly 400,000 jobs;</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; list-style: outside disc;">An average manufacturing shortfall of over 200,000 jobs;</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; list-style: outside disc;">A total income loss of more than $20,000 for a family of four;</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; list-style: outside disc;">An aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) loss of over $2.5 trillion; and</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; list-style: outside disc;">Increases in household electricity expenditures between 13 percent and 20 percent.”</li></ul></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is not the first time the Trump White House has relied on Heritage research into climate change regulations. In March, Trump issued an executive order undoing an Obama-era policy requiring the EPA to consider the “social cost of carbon” when making regulations. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s order was inspired by <a href="http://dailysignal.com//2013/09/16/scrutinizing-the-social-cost-of-carbon-comment-to-the-energy-department/" target="blank" data-external="yes" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">a <b>2013 Heritage analysis</b></a><b> finding that the EPA’s models were fundamentally flawed.</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://dailysignal.com//2013/09/16/scrutinizing-the-social-cost-of-carbon-comment-to-the-energy-department/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">http://dailysignal.com//2013/09/16/scrutinizing-the-social-cost-of-carbon-comment-to-the-energy-department/</a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Rolling back the “social cost of carbon” policy and other climate regulations could boost the economy, <a href="http://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/commentary/rolling-back-climate-regulations-will-boost-us-economy" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">Loris wrote in March</a>.</span></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>HERITAGE EXPLAINS</div><div>
</div><div><b>The Right Way to Ensure a Cleaner Environment</b></div><div><b>Big-government climate policies are all economic pain, no environmental gain. </b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In the 1970s, Americans were told we were in a global cooling crisis and if something weren’t done, we’d enter a new ice age.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">When that didn’t happen, a few decades later we were told that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. </span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Despite the consistent failure of these apocalyptic warnings, that hasn’t stopped climate change alarmism</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We’re now being told we only have 12 years to combat climate change and the solution is to fundamentally dismantle the system of free enterprise. That means Washington controls things like how we produce our energy, what food we eat and what type of cars we drive. [see fork 4 hot air tour kochsuckers]</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The question is, even if we believed their alarmist, catastrophic predictions, would their proposals work?</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Not according to the climate scientists’ own models</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Based on those models, even if the United States cut its carbon dioxide emissions to zero, it would only avert global warming by a few tenths of a degree Celsius — in 80 years! [no source]</span></div><div>
</div><div>We would see no noticeable difference in the climate, yet it would come at an enormous cost to the American people. <b>Climate change is happening and human activity undoubtedly plays a role, but <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">big-government</span> climate policies are all economic pain, no environmental gain.</b> </div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>After all, the purpose of climate change regulations is to drive energy prices higher so families and businesses use less energy. </b>Abundant energy sources such as coal, oil and natural gas have allowed Americans to affordably drive to their jobs, light and heat their homes, and power their refrigerators, computers, and iPhones. </span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On the other hand, more heavy-handed climate regulations would drive up electricity bills and prices at the pump. Families would be hurt multiple times over, paying not just more for energy but also more for food, clothing, and healthcare, as energy is critical for every stage of planting, harvesting, manufacturing, and transporting goods to consumers.[mike rowe]</span></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>These rising costs would stifle economic growth, one of the most important factors for maintaining a cleaner environment. </b>As a country’s economy grows,<b> the financial ability of its citizens to take care of the environment grows, too</b>. So creating more economy-killing climate regulations and taxes would not only harm the livelihoods of the American people, they would also harm our ability to protect our environment. </div><div>
</div><div>he just reads text</div><div>3 min  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXR2MlQf57g</div><div>
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</div><div><div>Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia</div><div>TEDx Talks</div><div>2.8M views</div><div>2 years ago</div></div><div>
</div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXR2MlQf57g&feature=emb_imp_woyt">reducing taxes and eliminating regulatory barriers to energy innovation. <b>For example, some states produce clean, cheap natural gas, but excessive regulations and litigation prevent the construction of pipelines to distribute natural gas to other parts of the country...Furthermore, competitive electricity markets can give consumers the option to buy 100 percent renewable power if they like. And fixing a broken regulatory system will allow new, innovative commercial nuclear technologies to get off the ground. </b></a></div><div>
</div><div>This is how we can ensure affordable, reliable, and cleaner energy. It’s how we can keep our economy growing. And ultimately, it’s how we can ensure a cleaner environment for America.</div><div>
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Get out now.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The agreement aims to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, largely by switching away from affordable, dependable energy sources that emit carbon dioxide to expensive, intermittent ones. For the U.S. contribution, the Obama administration vowed to limit greenhouse gas emissions at 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels, by 2025.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Time for a reality check. International approaches to mitigate manmade global warming are not only prohibitively costly, but unquestionably ineffective.</b></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First, CO2-emitting fossil fuels provide approximately 80 percent of the world’s energy needs. They do so because they’re affordable and reliable.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Switching over to more expensive alternatives won’t come cheap. Regulating or taxing fossil fuels to reduce their use will raise energy prices. That will harm families multiple times over, since energy is a necessary component for almost everything we do in life.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In the United States alone, climate change regulations would increase electricity expenditures between 13 and 20 percent. Similar costs would reverberate throughout the global economy. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Compliance with the Paris agreement will cost the global economy trillions of dollars over the next 80 years.</span></b></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Proponents of the international agreement say that’s the necessary price to pay to protect the only earth we have for our children and grandchildren. They say the alleged costs of manmade climate change could dwarf the costs of higher energy, making Paris a climate insurance policy.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is wishful thinking. No matter what beliefs you hold regarding global warming, the climate impacts of Paris are meaningless.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Even if every country met their respective commitments in Paris — a big if, considering there are no repercussions for shirking, and the world’s largest emitter,<b> China,</b> has already significantly underreported its CO2 emissions — the temperature reduction is practically nonexistent. The<b> Massachusetts Institute of Technology</b>’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change projects that the Paris agreement will avert a meager 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming by the year 2100.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One reason why Paris will be so ineffective is the threat of energy poverty among the world’s poorest citizens is much more imminent and real than the undetermined risk of climate change</b>. Some 17 percent of the world’s population — more than 1 billion people — lack access to electricity. About 35 percent have indoor cook stoves that burn wood and animal dung for their fuel, which have serious public health consequences. Developing nations want affordable, dependable energy to raise their standards of living, and countries such as India, China and Indonesia need to use a lot of coal to get there.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Proponents of Paris say the momentum of green energy is irreversible and coal’s demise as an energy source is inevitable. If that’s the case, then why do we need to stay in Paris? If market forces dictate a shift away from conventional fuels towards renewable ones, so be it. We’ll all stand to benefit from innovative, competitive energy technologies.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But when governments and international bodies force it upon us with taxpayer-funded subsidies and top-down regulations, only the well-connected stand to benefit.</b></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It’s no surprise to see big businesses — even ones that Paris would ostensibly hurt, such as big oil and big coal — support the international agreement. Industries want a seat at the table to ensure their own bottom line is protected or that the regulations hurt them less than they would their competitors // kerpin</b></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smaller businesses will lose out. And so will the rest of Americans — both as taxpayers and energy consumers.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One-hundred seventy countries signed onto Paris, and yes, withdrawing would put the Trump administration at odds with many foreign leaders. But as the old adage goes, “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you too?” Groupthink isn’t a credible excuse to stay in an extremely costly, futile agreement.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The international climate plan is forcing countries to jump off a cliff economically for no climate benefit. Remaining in Paris perpetuates a message that is fundamentally anti-development in nature and therefore damaging to American interests and opportunities.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of bad deals. It’s time to make good on that promise.</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Nicolas Loris, an economist</b>, focuses on energy, environmental and regulatory issues as the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow at the <b>Heritage Foundation.</b></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">franta says trump used same economists ~ paris that were used ~ kyoto, same args:</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/staying-paris-agreement-would-have-cost-families-20k">https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/staying-paris-agreement-would-have-cost-families-20k</a></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-trump-paris-climate-accord/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-trump-paris-climate-accord/</font></a></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Staying in Paris Agreement Would Have Cost Families $20KNov 5th, 2019 4 min read</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">COMMENTARY BY</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nicolas Loris</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@NiconomistLoris</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Deputy Director, <b>Thomas A. Roe Institute</b></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nick is an economist who focused on energy, environmental, and regulatory issues as the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KEY TAKEAWAYS</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump is right to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Global compliance with the Paris Agreement has been nothing short of abysmal.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those who are clamoring for action on climate change are the ones who should actually be most upset with what a sham the Paris agreement is.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Editor’s note: The U.S. just took a new, major step to leaving the Paris Agreement, a climate change deal between several countries. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, “Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.  Per the terms of the Agreement, the United States submitted formal notification of its withdrawal to the United Nations. The withdrawal will take effect one year from delivery of the notification.”</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pompeo added in his statement, made late Monday:</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As noted in his June 1, 2017 remarks, President [Donald] Trump made the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement because of the unfair economic burden imposed on American workers, businesses, and taxpayers by U.S. pledges made under the agreement.  The United States has reduced all types of emissions, even as we grow our economy and ensure our citizens’ access to affordable energy.  Our results speak for themselves:  U.S. emissions of criteria air pollutants that impact human health and the environment declined by 74% between 1970 and 2018.  U.S. net greenhouse gas emissions dropped 13% from 2005-2017, even as our economy grew over 19 percent.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s a version of a previously published article from Heritage Foundation researcher Nick Loris on why the Paris Agreement wouldn’t significantly affect the climate–but would cost America jobs and would hurt some families’ incomes. </font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump is right to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. While the climate is indeed changing and human activity is playing a role, the chances of looming climate catastrophe are simply unrealistic and not grounded in reality.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But even granting such a looming catastrophe, the Paris Agreement itself would do little to alter the climate. To have any impact whatsoever on climate, the entire world would either have to quickly change the way it consumes energy or simply remain undeveloped. Both options are devoid of reality.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While many countries are rapidly expanding their use of renewable power, forecasts indicate that coal, oil, and natural gas will continue to provide the overwhelming majority of the world’s energy needs well into the future. For developing countries, the highest priorities are to reduce energy poverty and improve living standards.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those who are clamoring for action on climate change are the ones who should actually be most upset with what a sham the Paris agreement is. It’s been celebrated as a breakthrough achievement of the world’s developed and developing countries coming together, but it is anything but that.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With no enforcement mechanisms in place and no repercussions for failing to meet emissions reduction targets, countries are essentially free to do whatever they want, meaning they will continue on their business-as-usual trajectory without making any changes. China, for instance, can peak its emissions in 2030 even though projections have their peak emissions falling before that year.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">India, for its part, has pledged to reduce its emissions levels, or cuts its ratio of carbon emissions to gross domestic product. That ratio may well go down so long as carbon emissions rise at a slower rate than GDP, but carbon emissions will keep rising all the same. </font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Actually, India committed to emissions reductions that are less than what the country would achieve if it continues on the same track it is currently on today. In other words, it set the bar so low that it can continue along its businesses-as-usual trajectory of emissions intensity and come out looking like a climate hero.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As the Manhattan Institute’s Oren Cas</b>s wrote, “It’s easy to slim down to 180 pounds, if you weigh 175 to begin with.Pakistan was more honest than most about its emissions prospects, stating bluntly, “Given the future economic growth and associated growth in the energy sector, the peaking of emissions in Pakistan is expected to take place much beyond the year 2030. An exponential increase of [greenhouse gas] emissions for many decades is likely to occur before any decrease in emissions can be expected.”...Global compliance with the Paris Agreement has been nothing short of abysmal. In fact, most nations will soon fail to meet the deadlines they agreed to.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The original hope that each nation’s contribution might somehow push other countries to “do more” is not playing out. This deal was a hodgepodge of arbitrarily defined commitments with no enforcement mechanism. It was doomed from the start.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following through with the Obama administration’s commitments would impose clear economic harm on the U.S. by driving energy prices higher—and that’s just a small part of the overall cost. Americans would pay more for food, health care, education, clothes, and every other good and service that requires energy.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These higher costs would be spread across the entire economy and would shrink overall economic growth and employment. Heritage Fovundation analysts estimated that the regulations required to meet the Obama administration’s commitments would impose the following costs by 2035:</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An overall loss of nearly 400,000 jobs, half of which would be in manufacturing.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A average total income loss of more than $20,000 for a family of four.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An aggregate GDP loss of over $2.5 trillion.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other countries would continue getting a free pass under the agreement, but if the U.S. signed back on, one can be sure that environmental activist lawsuits would make sure the U.S. kept its obligations. </font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To make matters worse, the climate regulations encompassing the U.S. target may not even achieve the desired results and would require additional regulations. And that would just be the beginning. The Paris Agreement requires ever-increasing targets as time goes on, which would further increase the cost of compliance. These efforts would return us to the same costly and ineffective policies that the current administration is unwinding.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congress should instead advance pragmatic policies that will actually drive innovation in energy and environmental protection.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This piece originally appeared in The Daily Signal</font></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...sUMMARY  <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">President Trump announced his intentions to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. On multiple occasions since the announcement, he has mentioned renegotiating the agreement. No amount of negotiating will change the fact that international climate accords are costly non-solutions that commit both the developed and developing world to lower standards of living.</span> </font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">If the President does attempt to renegotiate the Paris Agreement, he should insist that the agreement inflict<b> no economic harm,</b> make meaningful climate benefits, and <b>be submitted to the Senate for advice and consent</b>. <b>Ultimately, however, the President should recognize the framework is an unworkable and ineffective tool for addressing climate change and withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.</b></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Paris Agreement is a costly non-solution regardless of the realities of climate change.</b>  The U.S. should make no further contributions to the Green Climate Fund, which distorts energy markets and encourages corruption.  President Trump should withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a costly and ineffective tool for addressing climate change.</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in June, President Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is a wise decision. Compliance would impose significant costs on the U.S. economy and allocate billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize green energy technologies that are not commercially viable. Indeed, in the highly unlikely event that every country met its promised targets from the agreement, the abated warming would be practically undetectable.The U.S. must wait until November 2019 to formally submit a notice of withdrawal, which would take effect a year later. President Trump can take several steps in the meantime to protect taxpayers and expedite the withdrawal process:<...Withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which has proven to be a costly, ineffective, and unworkable tool for addressing climate changeMake any future agreements (including possible re-entry to the UNFCCC) contingent on ratification from the Senate, thus preventing any future administration from circumventing the treaty process—as President Obama did with the Paris Agreement....Cease from making any further contributions to the Green Climate Fund, which was conceived as a tool for incentivizing developing country participation in the Paris accord, but in reality distorts energy markets and encourages corruption. The U.S. should instead use its seat on the Fund’s board to encourage funding of targeted, effective adaptation projects...In addition, if renegotiation of the Paris Agreement becomes a reality, as President Trump mentioned, the U.S. should set strict conditions for rejoining what remains a fundamentally flawed and misconceived project. The U.S. also needs to take advantage of its leadership role in the areas of energy and environment to demand and produce improved scientific data on climate change....Proponents of the Paris Agreement argue that the accord is just a first step, and that even a little progress toward abated warming is a step in the right direction. Further, proponents claim that minimal temperature impacts do not take into account potentially more aggressive greenhouse gas cuts beyond 2030....Brad Plumer, “What to Expect as U.S. Leaves Paris Climate Accord,”...https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/us-paris-accord-what-happens-next.html...

However, the supposition that countries will stick with their respective targets leading up to 2030 and that post-Paris negotiations will lead to deep global de-carbonization of the energy is a rather large and very generous assumption, if not purely wishful thinking...Flaw Number One: Business-as-Usual Economics."> A critical flaw in the Paris Agreement is its perpetuation of business-as-usual, particularly for the developing world. In fact, the current and projected use of fossil fuels, including coal, indicate neither near-term nor long-term targets are attainable. The business-as-usual aspect of Paris is evident in the world’s continued pursuit of more coal as a dependable energy source...Pieter van Breevoort, Kornelis Blok, Markus Hagemann, Hanna Fekete, Niklas Höhne, Bill Hare, Michiel Schaeffer, Marcia Rocha, and Louise Jeffery, “The Coal Gap: Planned Coal-fired Power Plants Inconsistent with 2˚C and Threaten Achievement of INDCs,” Climate Action Tracker, December 1, 2015, <...Given the future economic growth and associated growth in the energy sector, the peaking of emissions in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Pakistan </span>is expected to take place much beyond the year 2030. An exponential increase of GHG emissions for many decades is likely to occur before any decrease in emissions can be expected.

Furthermore, there is no guarantee the industrialized world will meet their own targets. Developed countries such as Germany, Japan, Poland, and South Korea also have plans for significant coal plant expansions.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="" /></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a http="http" www.washingtontimes.com="www.washingtontimes.com">Ibid.

...Japan plans to build 41 coal-fired electricity-generating units, which it admits will make it very challenging to meet its NDC.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="" /></a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a http="http" www.washingtontimes.com="www.washingtontimes.com">Yuka Obayahi and Ami Miyazaki, “Heavy Reliance on Coal Is Likely to Stymie Japan’s Climate Agreement Goals,” Reuters, July 5, 2017,

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/national/heavy-reliance-coal-likely-stymie-japans-climate-agreement-goals/...july 2017 access]

The predecessor to Paris, the Kyoto Protocol, had legally binding but largely unsuccessful GHG targets...Christian Almer and Ralph Winkler, “Analyzing the Effectiveness of International Environmental Policies: The Case of the Kyoto Protocol,” <em>Journal of Environmental Economics and Management</em>, Vol. 82 (March 2017), pp. 125–151,...Christian Almer and Ralph Winkler, “Analyzing the Effectiveness of International Environmental Policies: The Case of the Kyoto Protocol,” <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Journal of Environmental Economics and Management</em>, Vol. 82 (March 2017), pp. 125–151...As President Obama frankly put it, “Kyoto was legally binding and everybody still fell short anyway.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="" /></a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a http="http" www.washingtontimes.com="www.washingtontimes.com">“Obama’s Remarks on the Climate Agreement,” <em>The New York Times</em>, December 18, 2009,

</a><a href="" http="http" www.nytimes.com="www.nytimes.com" science="science" earth="earth" climate.text.html="climate.text.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/science/earth/19climate.text.html</a> (accessed July 18, 2017).</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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Nearly half of the 36 countries with binding GHG emissions targets failed to meet the first round of commitments. Many countries had to buy carbon credits to meet their pledges and were aided by the 2008 financial recession that slowed economic output and consequently reduced emissions. For former Soviet states, emissions were falling before Kyoto was signed.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation=""><p>Michael Le Page, “Was Kyoto Climate Deal a Success? Figures Reveal Mixed Results,” <em>New Scientist</em>, June 14, 2016,

<a href="" https="https" www.newscientist.com="www.newscientist.com" article="article" was-kyoto-climate-deal-a-success-figures-reveal-mixed-results="was-kyoto-climate-deal-a-success-figures-reveal-mixed-results">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2093579-was-kyoto-climate-deal-a-success-figures-reveal-mixed-results/</a> (accessed July 18, 2017)...

Michael Le Page, “Was Kyoto Climate Deal a Success? Figures Reveal Mixed Results,” <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New Scientist</em>, June 14, 2016,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2093579-was-kyoto-climate-deal-a-success-figures-reveal-mixed-results/...

...The Paris Agreement: Breakdown of Costs and Inefficiences"><

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2093579-was-kyoto-climate-deal-a-success-figures-reveal-mixed-results/...

Canada withdrew from Kyoto in 2012; Japan, New Zealand, and Russia stated that they would not participate in the second commitment period of Kyoto requiring additional cuts in GHG emissions. A non-binding accord like the Paris Agreement, which perpetuates the economic status quo for the developed and developing worlds alike, can hardly hope for a better outcome...Projecting the shape and scope of climate policy, the energy mix, or the global economy beyond 2030 is an immensely difficult task. Global coal consumption may be significantly lower than projected, or, as energy demands grow, consumption could increase. It is unwise for the U.S. to base costly, ineffective policy today on an unrealistic dream for present day reality and unknowable future energy markets." curry="curry" the="the" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" aims="aims" to="to" limit="limit" global="global" warming="warming" degrees="degrees" celsius="Celsius" above="above" pre-industrial="pre-industrial" levels="levels" countries="Countries" involved="involved" in="in" submitted="submitted" a="a" non-binding="non-binding" ndc="NDC" that="that" goal="goal" setting="setting" their="their" respective="respective" obligations="obligations" for="for" keeping="keeping" temperatures="temperatures" check="check" through="through" combination="combination" of="of" mitigation="mitigation" and="and" adaptation="adaptation" efforts="efforts" there="There" are="are" no="no" provisions="provisions" pa="PA" permitting="permitting" party="Party" rescind="rescind" its="its" or="or" express="express" prohibitions="prohibitions" possible="Possible" withdrawal="withdrawal" existing="existing" u.s="U.S" raises="raises" two="two" aspects="aspects" compliance="compliance" with="with" requirement="requirement" each="each" must="must" submit="submit" suggesting="suggesting" include="include" more="more" ambitious="ambitious" pledge="pledge" ratcheting="ratcheting" mechanism="mechanism" ambition="ambition" ghg="GHG" emission="emission" reductions="reductions"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Certainly, the Trump Administration should not renegotiate Paris based on any assumption that the accord is an effective climate mitigation tool. No amount of negotiating or expanding the pool of subsidies to different carbon-dioxide (CO2)-free energy technologies will change the realities of current and future coal generation.</font></i></font></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></a></i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If for other strategic reasons the Administration does pursue a renegotiation, it should insist on the following criteria:</font></i></font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i class="tooltip__arrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: inherit;">Impose No Economic Harm.</b> The Trump Administration should insist that any contribution to the Paris climate accord not impose harm on the U.S. economy. Protecting the American economy from costly international climate agreements was once a bipartisan idea. The Byrd–Hagel Resolution, which passed unanimously with a 95–0 vote before the Kyoto Protocol, states that the U.S. should not enter into any treaty that “would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States.

...Following through with the Obama Administration’s NDC would impose clear economic harm by driving energy prices higher. The climate regulations encompassing the U.S.’s NDC may not even achieve those targets, requiring additional regulations. Moreover, the Paris Agreement requires subsequent, more stringent targets, further increasing the cost of compliance. The U.S. should refuse to accede to any climate regulations that impose a net cost to American families and businesses.</font></i></font></i></i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 70px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltip__arrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 70px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: inherit;">Achieve Meaningful Results.</b> Although proponents of the Paris Agreement praised the agreement for bringing the developing world and major emitters like India and China on board, the non-binding targets largely perpetuate the energy and climate status quo. Consequently, the projected averted warming is negligible. Moreover, given current and projected investments in coal-fired electricity generation, reaching the temperature targets outlined in the accord appears very unlikely. Even Secretary of State John Kerry admitted during the negotiations in December 2016, “If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions—remember what I just said, all the industrial emissions went down to zero emissions—it wouldn’t be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world.”

...Nicolas Loris, “John Kerry’s Surprising Comments on International Regulations and Climate Change,” The Daily Signal, December 11, 2015, 

 dailysignal.com="dailysignal.com" john-kerrys-surprising-comments-on-international-regulations-and-climate-change="john-kerrys-surprising-comments-on-international-regulations-and-climate-change"

Submit to the Senate for Advice and Consent. President Obama misused the existing United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) framework, treating it as a vehicle to avoid the constitutional obligation (under Article II, Section 2) to seek advice and consent from the Senate

Steven Groves, “The Paris Agreement Is a Treaty and Should Be Submitted to the Senate,” Heritage Foundation <em>Backgrounder

Rather than renegotiating the Paris Agreement, the Trump Administration should withdraw entirely from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Article 25 of the UNFCCC says that any party can withdraw from the convention three years after the framework has entered into force by submitting a written notice to the depositary. (The depositary is the secretary-general of the United Nations.) Doing this would withdraw the U.S. from any protocol to which it is a party (including Paris) and would enter into force one year after the depositary receives the notification of withdrawal.

...Withdrawing from the UNFCCC would not preclude the U.S. from studying climate science, understanding the risks, and taking any necessary measures to adapt to a changing climate. Instead, pulling out of the UNFCCC is an appropriate action because the Paris Agreement and similar international approaches to mitigate warming are and will continue to be costly, ineffective, and unworkable. President Trump made good on his campaign promise by announcing U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. Now he should expedite that intention by withdrawing from the UNFCCC.

In the negotiations leading up to the Paris conference, participants developed the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which aims to mobilize $100 billion in public and private financing by 2020

The GCF, which has its own independent board, subsidizes renewable energy projects and pays for other climate adaptation and mitigation programs in developing nations. In fact, the promise of assistance through the GCF was instrumental in securing developing country support for the Paris Agreement. Many developing countries have emphasized the need for outside funds to meet the targets in their NDCs.<

The GCF distorts energy markets by allocating subsidies to GCF board-approved energy technologies allegedly for climate mitigation.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation=""><p>News release, “GCF Approves Eight Projects at its First Board Meeting in 2017,” Green Climate Fund, April 6, 2017,...http://www.greenclimate.fund/-/gcf-approves-eight-projects-at-its-first-board-meeting-in-20-1 (accessed July 18, 2017)....;Private investors hedge their bets and coalesce around publicly supported sectors while other projects that do not receive government support lose out. Because capital is in limited supply, a dollar loaned to a government-backed project will not be available for another project.

 Furthermore, some of the world’s largest banks signed Accreditation Master Agreements with the GCF in order to receive CGF funds to raise additional private capital.

Corruption and fraud. In the past, some of the top recipient nations of government-funded climate programs have been some of the most corrupt.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation=""><p>Alex Pashley, “Campaigners Warn of Climate Finance Corruption Risk,” Climate Change News, July 29, 2015,

<a href="" http="http" www.climatechangenews.com="www.climatechangenews.com" campaigners-warn-of-climate-finance-corruption-risk="campaigners-warn-of-climate-finance-corruption-risk" because="Because" the="the" gcf="GCF" has="has" plans="plans" to="to" allocate="allocate" funds="funds" some="some" of="of" world="world" s="s" more="more" corrupt="corrupt" nations="nations" fraud="fraud" in="in" will="will" be="be" a="a" growing="growing" concern="concern"><span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation=""><p>Comparing CGF recipients to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.

Large wealth transfers waste taxpayer money and funnel public dollars to politically favored energy technologies. In many instances, the use of funds diverts support from certain types of energy, such as nuclear power, that have zero carbon-dioxide emissions. The GCF also creates artificial pressure to shift away from cheaper, more reliable conventional fuels to more expensive intermittent technologies that cannot survive without public financing. Given the immediate, known risk of energy poverty, developing countries need to pursue energy projects that best meet their needs, renewable or otherwise. The Trump Administration should prohibit any new funding to the GCF, and Congress should pass legislation that specifically states no future administration can distribute U.S. taxpayer money to the fund without explicit authorization from Congress.</p></span></a></p></span></p></span></em></font></i></i></i></i></i></p><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; list-style: outside disc;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 145px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 235px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 130px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 130px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: inherit;">Use board seats to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">advocate for adaptation projects</span>.</b> The U.S. has a seat on the GCF’s 24-member board, at least until December 2018, and potentially longer. The board reserves one-quarter of the seats for the top six contributors.<span class="annotationhighlight" data-annotation=""><p>The Green Climate Fund, “Board Members,” <a href="" http="http" www.greenclimate.fund="www.greenclimate.fund" boardroom="boardroom" board-members="board-members">http://www.greenclimate.fund/boardroom/board-members</a> (accessed July 18, 2017), and Jean Chemnick, “U.S. Could Stay on Green Climate Fund Board After All.”</p>

<a href="" http="http" www.greenclimate.fund="www.greenclimate.fund" senegal-integrated-urban-flood-management-project="senegal-integrated-urban-flood-management-project">http://www.greenclimate.fund/-/senegal-integrated-urban-flood-management-project</a> (accessed July 18, 2017).</p>

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</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">  Issued on: June 1, 2017</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">...</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  (Applause.)  Thank you.  I would like to begin by addressing the terrorist attack in Manila.  We’re closely monitoring the situation, and I will continue to give updates if anything happens during this period of time.  But it is really very sad as to what’s going on throughout the world with terror.  Our thoughts and our prayers are with all of those affected.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Before we discuss the Paris Accord, I’d like to begin with an update on our tremendous — absolutely tremendous — economic progress since Election Day on November 8th.  The economy is starting to come back, and very, very rapidly.  We’ve added $3.3 trillion in stock market value to our economy, and more than a million private sector jobs.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">I have just returned from a trip overseas where we concluded nearly $350 billion of military and economic development for the United States, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.  It was a very, very successful trip, believe me.  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">In my meetings at the G7, we have taken historic steps to demand fair and reciprocal trade that gives Americans a level playing field against other nations.  We’re also working very hard for peace in the Middle East, and perhaps even peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.  Our attacks on terrorism are greatly stepped up — and you see that, you see it all over — from the previous administration, including getting many other countries to make major contributions to the fight against terror.  Big, big contributions are being made by countries that weren’t doing so much in the form of contribution.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">One by one, we are keeping the promises I made to the American people during my campaign for President –- whether it’s cutting job-killing regulations; appointing and confirming a tremendous Supreme Court justice; putting in place tough new ethics rules; achieving a record reduction in illegal immigration on our southern border; or bringing jobs, plants, and factories back into the United States at numbers which no one until this point thought even possible.  And believe me, we’ve just begun.  The fruits of our labor will be seen very shortly even more so.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">On these issues and so many more, we’re following through on our commitments.  And I don’t want anything to get in our way.  I am fighting every day for the great people of this country.  Therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord — (applause) — thank you, thank you — but begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris Accord or a really entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers.  So we’re getting out.  But we will start to negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair.  And if we can, that’s great.  And if we can’t, that’s fine.  (Applause.)</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">As President, I can put no other consideration before the wellbeing of American citizens.  The Paris Climate Accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers — who I love — and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories, and vastly diminished economic production.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Thus, as of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris Accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country.  This includes ending the implementation of the nationally determined contribution and, very importantly, the Green Climate Fund which is costing the United States a vast fortune.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Compliance with the terms of the Paris Accord and the onerous energy restrictions it has placed on the United States could cost America as much as 2.7 million lost jobs by 2025 according to the National Economic Research Associates.  This includes 440,000 fewer manufacturing jobs — not what we need — believe me, this is not what we need — including automobile jobs, and the further decimation of vital American industries on which countless communities rely.  They rely for so much, and we would be giving them so little.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">According to this same study, by 2040, compliance with the commitments put into place by the previous administration would cut production for the following sectors:  paper down 12 percent; cement down 23 percent; iron and steel down 38 percent; coal — and I happen to love the coal miners — down 86 percent; natural gas down 31 percent.  The cost to the economy at this time would be close to $3 trillion in lost GDP and 6.5 million industrial jobs, while households would have $7,000 less income and, in many cases, much worse than that.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Not only does this deal subject our citizens to harsh economic restrictions, it fails to live up to our environmental ideals.  As someone who cares deeply about the environment, which I do, I cannot in good conscience support a deal that punishes the United States — which is what it does -– the world’s leader in environmental protection, while imposing no meaningful obligations on the world’s leading polluters.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">For example, under the agreement, China will be able to increase these emissions by a staggering number of years — 13.  They can do whatever they want for 13 years.  Not us.  India makes its participation contingent on receiving billions and billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries.  There are many other examples.  But the bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair, at the highest level, to the United States.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Further, while the current agreement effectively blocks the development of clean coal in America — which it does, and the mines are starting to open up.  We’re having a big opening in two weeks.  Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, so many places.  A big opening of a brand-new mine.  It’s unheard of.  For many, many years, that hasn’t happened.  They asked me if I’d go.  I’m going to try.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants.  So we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement.  India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020.  Think of it:  India can double their coal production.  We’re supposed to get rid of ours.  Even Europe is allowed to continue construction of coal plants.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">In short, the agreement doesn’t eliminate coal jobs, it just transfers those jobs out of America and the United States, and ships them to foreign countries.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">This agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States.  The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement — they went wild; they were so happy — 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.  A cynic would say the obvious reason for economic competitors and their wish to see us remain in the agreement is so that we continue to suffer this self-inflicted major economic wound.  We would find it very hard to compete with other countries from other parts of the world.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">We have among the most abundant energy reserves on the planet, sufficient to lift millions of America’s poorest workers out of poverty.  Yet, under this agreement, we are effectively putting these reserves under lock and key, taking away the great wealth of our nation — it’s great wealth, it’s phenomenal wealth; not so long ago, we had no idea we had such wealth — and leaving millions and millions of families trapped in poverty and joblessness.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">The agreement is a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries.  At 1 percent growth, renewable sources of energy can meet some of our domestic demand, but at 3 or 4 percent growth, which I expect, we need all forms of available American energy, or our country — (applause) — will be at grave risk of brownouts and blackouts, our businesses will come to a halt in many cases, and the American family will suffer the consequences in the form of lost jobs and a very diminished quality of life.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree — think of that; this much — Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100.  Tiny, tiny amount.  In fact, 14 days of carbon emissions from China alone would wipe out the gains from America — and this is an incredible statistic — would totally wipe out the gains from America’s expected reductions in the year 2030, after we have had to spend billions and billions of dollars, lost jobs, closed factories, and suffered much higher energy costs for our businesses and for our homes.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">As the Wall Street Journal wrote this morning:  “The reality is that withdrawing is in America’s economic interest and won’t matter much to the climate.”  The United States, under the Trump administration, will continue to be the cleanest and most environmentally friendly country on Earth.  We’ll be the cleanest.  We’re going to have the cleanest air.  We’re going to have the cleanest water.  We will be environmentally friendly, but we’re not going to put our businesses out of work and we’re not going to lose our jobs.  We’re going to grow; we’re going to grow rapidly.  (Applause.)</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">And I think you just read — it just came out minutes ago, the small business report — small businesses as of just now are booming, hiring people.  One of the best reports they’ve seen in many years.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">I’m willing to immediately work with Democratic leaders to either negotiate our way back into Paris, under the terms that are fair to the United States and its workers, or to negotiate a new deal that protects our country and its taxpayers.  (Applause.)</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">So if the obstructionists want to get together with me, let’s make them non-obstructionists.  We will all sit down, and we will get back into the deal.  And we’ll make it good, and we won’t be closing up our factories, and we won’t be losing our jobs.  And we’ll sit down with the Democrats and all of the people that represent either the Paris Accord or something that we can do that’s much better than the Paris Accord.  And I think the people of our country will be thrilled, and I think then the people of the world will be thrilled.  But until we do that, we’re out of the agreement.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">I will work to ensure that America remains the world’s leader on environmental issues, but under a framework that is fair and where the burdens and responsibilities are equally shared among the many nations all around the world.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">No responsible leader can put the workers — and the people — of their country at this debilitating and tremendous disadvantage.  The fact that the Paris deal hamstrings the United States, while empowering some of the world’s top polluting countries, should dispel any doubt as to the real reason why foreign lobbyists wish to keep our magnificent country tied up and bound down by this agreement:  It’s to give their country an economic edge over the United States.  That’s not going to happen while I’m President.  I’m sorry.  (Applause.)</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">My job as President is to do everything within my power to give America a level playing field and to create the economic, regulatory and tax structures that make America the most prosperous and productive country on Earth, and with the highest standard of living and the highest standard of environmental protection.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Our tax bill is moving along in Congress, and I believe it’s doing very well.  I think a lot of people will be very pleasantly surprised.  The Republicans are working very, very hard.  We’d love to have support from the Democrats, but we may have to go it alone.  But it’s going very well.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">The Paris Agreement handicaps the United States economy in order to win praise from the very foreign capitals and global activists that have long sought to gain wealth at our country’s expense.  They don’t put America first.  I do, and I always will.  (Applause.)</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">The same nations asking us to stay in the agreement are the countries that have collectively cost America trillions of dollars through tough trade practices and, in many cases, lax contributions to our critical military alliance.  You see what’s happening.  It’s pretty obvious to those that want to keep an open mind.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">At what point does America get demeaned?  At what point do they start laughing at us as a country?   We want fair treatment for its citizens, and we want fair treatment for our taxpayers.  We don’t want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore.  And they won’t be.  They won’t be.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.  (Applause.)  I promised I would exit or renegotiate any deal which fails to serve America’s interests.  Many trade deals will soon be under renegotiation.  Very rarely do we have a deal that works for this country, but they’ll soon be under renegotiation.  The process has begun from day one.  But now we’re down to business.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Beyond the severe energy restrictions inflicted by the Paris Accord, it includes yet another scheme to redistribute wealth out of the United States through the so-called Green Climate Fund — nice name — which calls for developed countries to send $100 billion to developing countries all on top of America’s existing and massive foreign aid payments.  So we’re going to be paying billions and billions and billions of dollars, and we’re already way ahead of anybody else.  Many of the other countries haven’t spent anything, and many of them will never pay one dime.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">The Green Fund would likely obligate the United States to commit potentially tens of billions of dollars of which the United States has already handed over $1 billion — nobody else is even close; most of them haven’t even paid anything — including funds raided out of America’s budget for the war against terrorism.  That’s where they came.  Believe me, they didn’t come from me.  They came just before I came into office.  Not good.  And not good the way they took the money.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">In 2015, the United Nation’s departing top climate officials reportedly described the $100 billion per year as “peanuts,” and stated that “the $100 billion is the tail that wags the dog.”  In 2015, the Green Climate Fund’s executive director reportedly stated that estimated funding needed would increase to $450 billion per year after 2020.  And nobody even knows where the money is going to.  Nobody has been able to say, where is it going to?</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Of course, the world’s top polluters have no affirmative obligations under the Green Fund, which we terminated.  America is $20 trillion in debt.  Cash-strapped cities cannot hire enough police officers or fix vital infrastructure.  Millions of our citizens are out of work.  And yet, under the Paris Accord, billions of dollars that ought to be invested right here in America will be sent to the very countries that have taken our factories and our jobs away from us.  So think of that.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">There are serious legal and constitutional issues as well.  Foreign leaders in Europe, Asia, and across the world should not have more to say with respect to the U.S. economy than our own citizens and their elected representatives.  Thus, our withdrawal from the agreement represents a reassertion of America’s sovereignty.  (Applause.)  Our Constitution is unique among all the nations of the world, and it is my highest obligation and greatest honor to protect it.  And I will.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Staying in the agreement could also pose serious obstacles for the United States as we begin the process of unlocking the restrictions on America’s abundant energy reserves, which we have started very strongly.  It would once have been unthinkable that an international agreement could prevent the United States from conducting its own domestic economic affairs, but this is the new reality we face if we do not leave the agreement or if we do not negotiate a far better deal.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">The risks grow as historically these agreements only tend to become more and more ambitious over time.  In other words, the Paris framework is a starting point — as bad as it is — not an end point.  And exiting the agreement protects the United States from future intrusions on the United States’ sovereignty and massive future legal liability.  Believe me, we have massive legal liability if we stay in.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">As President, I have one obligation, and that obligation is to the American people.  The Paris Accord would undermine our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty, impose unacceptable legal risks, and put us at a permanent disadvantage to the other countries of the world.  It is time to exit the Paris Accord — (applause) — and time to pursue a new deal that protects the environment, our companies, our citizens, and our country.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">It is time to put Youngstown, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — along with many, many other locations within our great country — before Paris, France.  It is time to make America great again.  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you very much.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Thank you very much.  Very important.  I’d like to ask Scott Pruitt, who most of you know and respect, as I do, just to say a few words.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Scott, please.  (Applause.)</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">ADMINISTRATOR PRUITT:  Thank you, Mr. President.  Your decision today to exit the Paris Accord reflects your unflinching commitment to put America first.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">And by exiting, you’re fulfilling yet one more campaign promise to the American people.  Please know that I am thankful for your fortitude, your courage, and your steadfastness as you serve and lead our country.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">America finally has a leader who answers only to the people — not to the special interests who have had their way for way too long.  In everything you do, Mr. President, you’re fighting for the forgotten men and women across this country.  You’re a champion for the hardworking citizens all across this land who just want a government that listens to them and represents their interest.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">You have promised to put America First in all that you do, and you’ve done that in any number of ways — from trade, to national security, to protecting our border, to rightsizing Washington, D.C.  And today you’ve put America first with regard to international agreements and the environment.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">This is an historic restoration of American economic independence — one that will benefit the working class, the working poor, and working people of all stripes.  With this action, you have declared that the people are rulers of this country once again.  And it should be noted that we as a nation do it better than anyone in the world in striking the balance between growing our economy, growing jobs while also being a good steward of our environment.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">We owe no apologies to other nations for our environmental stewardship.  After all, before the Paris Accord was ever signed, America had reduced its CO2 footprint to levels from the early 1990s.  In fact, between the years 2000 and 2014, the United States reduced its carbon emissions by 18-plus percent.  And this was accomplished not through government mandate, but accomplished through innovation and technology of the American private sector.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">For that reason, Mr. President, you have corrected a view that was paramount in Paris that somehow the United States should penalize its own economy, be apologetic, lead with our chin, while the rest of world does little.  Other nations talk a good game; we lead with action — not words.  (Applause.)</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Our efforts, Mr. President, as you know, should be on exporting our technology, our innovation to nations who seek to reduce their CO2 footprint to learn from us.  That should be our focus versus agreeing to unachievable targets that harm our economy and the American people.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">Mr. President, it takes courage, it takes commitment to say no to the plaudits of men while doing what’s right by the American people.  You have that courage, and the American people can take comfort because you have their backs.</a></div><div><a href="" http="http" www.washingtontimes.com...the="www.washingtontimes.com...The" continued="continued" use="use" of="of" coal="coal" demonstrates="demonstrates" the="the" futility="futility" paris="Paris" agreement="Agreement" in="in" achieving="achieving" any="any" averted="averted" warming="warming">
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Nearly 88% of Special Report’s climate segments since 2009 either spread misinformation or perpetuated false or misleading narratives</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special PROGRAMS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CLIMATE & ENERGY</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WRITTEN BY ALICIA SADOWSKI</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALLISON FISHER, REBECCA MARTIN, NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ & JANE LEE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PUBLISHED 06/16/21 12:01 PM EDT</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier is heralded as the network’s flagship “straight news” program that firmly embodies the show’s motto of “fair, balanced, and unafraid.” Under Fox chief political anchor Bret Baier’s direction, however, Special Report has failed to meet its own standards in covering the climate crisis and environmental protection, instead providing a platform for many of the same climate denier guests and fossil fuel industry talking points featured on the network’s opinion side. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media Matters examined Special Report with Bret Baier’s coverage related to climate change and the environment between <b>January 1, 2009, and May 3, 2021</b>. We counted and analyzed segments devoted to climate change or the environment and those in which a network figure discussed the issue or engaged with a guest who brought it up. We then broadly categorized the show’s misinformation and misleading narratives into five different angles of attack -- regarding climate science, the economy, the efficacy and public demand for domestic climate action, global cooperation, and the urgency of the crisis. These narratives undermined, doubted, misrepresented, or otherwise dismissed climate science and/or drives for climate action or environmental protection. We counted each angle once per segment even if it arose multiple times; segments often included more than one angle.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT IS PART OF THE DECADESLONG AND ONGOING CAMPAIGN TO DELAY CLIMATE ACTION</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BAIER’S “STRAIGHT NEWS” COVERAGE OF THE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT ECHOES THE LIES OF FOX’S OPINION PERSONALITIES</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT UNDERMINES CLIMATE SCIENCE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT SETS UP A FALSE CONFLICT BETWEEN A HEALTHY PLANET AND A THRIVING ECONOMY OR MISREPRESENTS THE EFFICACY AND PUBLIC DEMAND FOR CLIMATE ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT FUELS NATIONALISTIC AND MISLEADING NARRATIVES OPPOSING GLOBAL CLIMATE EFFORTS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT UNDERMINES THE SERIOUSNESS AND URGENCY OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CONCLUSION</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">METHODOLOGY</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Key Findings</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">From January 1, 2009, to May 3, 2021, Special Report aired at least 972 segments covering stories related to climate change or the environment.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At least 851 of those segments -- more than 87% -- featured false or misleading narratives and misinformation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since 2009, Fox chief political anchor Bret Baier, guest anchors, correspondents, and guests on Special Report have undermined, doubted, misrepresented, or otherwise dismissed climate science and the urgency of climate action at least 1,333 times.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Of the 851 Special Report segments that attacked or misrepresented climate change or environmental protection:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">14% undermined climate science.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>
</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">29% set up a false conflict between a healthy planet and a thriving economy.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">43% misrepresented the efficacy of climate action or the public demand for environmental protections.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">8% fueled nationalistic defenses of climate inaction and/or misled viewers about global climate efforts.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">more than 5% undermined the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Special Report’s specific attacks undermining climate science were most frequent at the start of Baier’s run as anchor, which began in January 2009. The show spread nearly four times as much misinformation or false or misleading narratives attacking climate science during President Barack Obama’s first year in office (when climate legislation was being considered in Congress) than during President Donald Trump’s first year. </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>During President Joe Biden’s first four months in office, Special Report was already spreading climate-related misinformation and false or misleading climate narratives at more than three times its weekly rate of 2020.[SO BS SIDE EFFECT COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO FOX RAISON D'ETRE ATTACK DEMONIZE LIBS/DEMS?!</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Special Report is part of the decades-long and ongoing campaign to delay climate action</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In reviewing over a decade of Special Report’s climate coverage, Media Matters found at least 851 segments that featured misinformation or false or misleading narratives that undermine efforts to address the climate crisis or environmental degradation. Many of these same attacks are also heavily promoted by Fox’s opinion shows, which points to the shared talking points of the network’s “news” division and some of its most toxic prime-time personalities.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>These attacks on science are not isolated incidents -- they can be contextualized within the clear template of industry-funded science denial</b>. As early as 1977, Exxon scientists were aware of the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels, but the company spent the next two decades leading misinformation campaigns to question the scientific basis of climate change, lobbying congressional representatives to reject domestic environmental regulations and international climate treaties, and spreading narratives to falsely pit the health of the economy against the need for environmental protections. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>More than four decades after Exxon’s initial discovery, Fox News has scrupulously parrotted its successful misinformation campaigns, despite international and domestic studies overwhelmingly warning of the dire consequences of fossil fuels’ contributions to climate change. </b>Special Report’s complicity in promoting these industry narratives is part of the larger, systemic failure of the U.S. to grapple with the climate crisis, which also includes denying communities equitable access to healthy environments, often at the expense of people of color, as well as the failure to pass meaningful climate and environmental legislation in the last decade. And the same science-denial talking points featured on Special Report have even been recycled by Fox News opinion shows and other bad actors (following a similar blueprint to the fossil fuel industry’s strategy to undermine climate science) to deny the existence and seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and to dismiss the urgency of finding solutions for this public health crisis.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Baier’s “straight news” coverage of the climate and environment echoes the lies of Fox’s opinion personalities</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media Matters’ extensive review of Special Report’s coverage of the climate crisis and environmental protections since 2009 found a persistent theme of the program sowing doubt about the existence of climate change and the efficacy of climate solutions. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of the 851 climate or environment-related segments on Special Report that included such instances, 477 occurred during correspondent segments, 174 occurred during guest segments, and 200 were perpetuated by Baier or guest anchors. Excluding segments featuring guest anchors, Baier himself espoused or allowed 1,116 instances of climate misinformation and false or misleading narratives during the studied time period. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Week after week, year after year, Special Report viewers -- who are promised an objective and unbiased analysis of the issues -- have been inundated with misleading statements that reflect Fox’s opinion-side rhetoric: denying climate science, shirking responsibility for environmental degradation, downplaying the severity of climate change, and recklessly casting solutions as too costly or leading toward a slippery slope of tyranny. Here are the types of attacks we found.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Special Report undermines climate science</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The overwhelming consensus from scientists, both domestic and abroad, is clear: Warming trends over the past century are extremely likely to be caused by human activities emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2007, just two years before Bret Baier took the helm of Fox's flagship news program, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international coalition of scientists who assess peer-reviewed scientific papers to summarize knowledge of the causes of climate change, released a report stating that the “warming of the climate system is unequivocal” and that oceans and other ecosystems were “being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases.” The report said anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions were “very likely” the cause of global average temperature rise, and it also urged policymakers to consider “a wide variety of policies and instruments” to “create the incentives for mitigation action.” These findings were strengthened in the IPCC's next six-year review in 2013, emphasizing that changes in the climate since the 1950s were “unprecedented over decades to millennia.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite these direct warnings from the world’s scientific experts, Baier’s viewers have heard a different story: Special Report’s coverage of climate change and environmental degradation has flatly denied science, focused on debunked, concocted controversies that attempted to dismantle scientific consensus, and selectively reported cool weather events to dismiss warnings of dire climate change consequences. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Overall, 14% of the misinformation and misleading or false narratives about climate change spread by Special Report since 2009 have undermined the consensus and conclusions of climate science, with nearly half of that misinformation -- 46% -- occurring within the first three years of Baier's run. In fact, throughout Obama’s first term, Special Report spread two and a half times as many instances of misinformation and false or misleading narratives undermining climate science as it did during Trump’s term. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Within just his first month as anchor, Baier ran a misleading climate segment on January 28, 2009, which cited David Kreutzer of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> Heritage Foundation,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a conservative think tank funded in part by the fossil fuel industry. </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kreutzer suggested that scientists were moving to use the term “climate change” instead of “global warming” to distract from cooling trends and make it “easier” to blame humans for natural environmental variation. In February 2010, Baier himself even claimed that “‘global warming,’ the phrase, has been changed really to ‘climate change’ by supporters,” and he hosted current Fox prime-time star Tucker Carlson to lament that “there’s nothing that can’t be explained by the phrase ‘climate change.’” (While Fox News is still undermining climate science by conflating weather patterns with long-term climate disruption, the term “climate change” was actually championed by longtime Republican strategist Frank Luntz in an infamous 2002 memo advising the GOP on how to cast doubt on the scientific consensus that human activity was warming the planet.) </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Baier has continued to attack the science of climate change by giving climate skeptics’ opinions equal weight to peer-reviewed scientific consensus. In February 2015, Baier ran a segment that cited a “retired accountant, blogger, and self-described climate historian” who baselessly claimed that climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had been modified to be “more supportive of those who say the planet is warming and that man is directly responsible.” The segment also cited another</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> Heritage Foundation representative, Nick Loris,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> who cast doubt on the human-made drivers of climate change and falsely suggested that scientists do not believe policies restricting greenhouse gas emissions would be effective. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October 2018, the next IPCC report estimated that human activities have caused approximately 1 degree Celsius of global warming above preindustrial levels, which is already wreaking havoc on communities, causing more extreme weather events and rising oceans. The report also gave a more dire warning of the urgency of climate change, telling policymakers they had as little as 12 years to limit warming to 1.5 C before climate change and the ensuing environmental degradation reach an irreversible tipping point. The report gave special note to a change in the “frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of weather and climate extremes,” yet Baier’s reporting has failed to note the potential impact of climate change on extreme weather events. The program even flatly denied the existence of climate change as recently as February 2019.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Report dismissed the IPCC’s warnings once again, and Baier ran a segment in May 2019 that quoted </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Marc Morano,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a fossil fuel industry-funded climate skeptic who has been described as “a central cell of the climate-denial machine.” In the segment, Morano dismissed another U.N. report warning of mass species extinction as “politics, not science.” </span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the May 6, 2019, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Between 2009 and 2021, Morano’s climate denial was highlighted in at least 10 segments on Special Report, similar to his frequent visits on Fox opinion shows such as Tucker Carlson Tonight. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Morano appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight in April of this year, responding to Carlson’s opening question on the Biden infrastructure bill: “How much of this bill is geared not toward cleaning up the environment, which we could badly use, but toward this global warming theory that they have? How much of it is climate-based?” Morano again argued that a focus on climate change was not due to necessity or scientific consensus, but claimed that it was simply a maneuver to accrue political powe</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">r.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the April 1, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Special Report's undermining of climate science wasn’t just left to his guests or correspondent segments -- Baier himself recently engaged in the same rhetoric to doubt climate science as a figure from Fox’s opinion side, The Five’s Jesse Watters. On May 3, Watters complained that “the worst part about the whole story” is that “Biden isn’t certain schools are gonna be open this fall, because, you know, he does not have a crystal ball. But at the same breath he says if we don't spend a trillion dollars on green energy, he knows the Earth's temperature, to a degree, in a hundred years. It’s hard to square those.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the May 3, 2021, edition of Fox News' The Five </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baier attempted to make the same point in the next hour, asking why the Biden administration was being cautious in making predictions about school openings while citing scientific unknowns, but “they don’t have that same phrasing when talking about climate change.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citation From the May 3, 2021, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Special Report sets up a false conflict between a healthy planet and a thriving economy or misrepresents the efficacy and public demand for climate action and environmental protections</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox News figures and other right-wing media personalities have often falsely pitted the economy against the environment, demonizing climate solutions as either too expensive or a waste of money that will not bring adequate returns in the green economy, in an effort to justify a lack of congressional action. Special Report’s coverage was no different throughout the last decade, with 29% of the misinformation or misleading narratives that it spread perpetuating that false dichotomy or failing to consider the cost of climate inaction, and 43% misrepresenting the efficacy and public demand for climate action.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Report often emphasized the immediate cost of climate solutions while also pushing narratives that depicted environmental regulations as ineffective or decried the supposedly “socialist” implications of climate legislation. Almost one in three of the problematic segments identified by Media Matters -- around 273 -- both undermined the efficacy of climate action and portrayed potential environmental protections as hurting the economy. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Scientists and policy experts have repeatedly warned that transitioning to a clean energy economy -- often incentivized through legislation -- is not only necessary to ensure a livable planet, but will also reduce the price of mitigation after irreversible climate impacts take hold</b>. In 2018, the Fourth National Climate Assessment warned that the “continued warming that is projected to occur without substantial and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions is expected to cause substantial net damage to the U.S. economy throughout this century, especially in the absence of increased adaptation efforts.” Another recently published study in Scientific Reports estimated that the cost of failure to keep warming to a 1.5 C threshold rose “from 1.3 trillion dollars per year of inaction in 2010 to over 5 trillion dollars per year in 2020.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Yet despite the long-term economic suffering promised by increasingly extreme weather and climate disasters, regional temperature changes reducing crop yields, and environmental degradation reducing tourism and recreation, much of Special Report’s climate coverage since 2009 has been fed by fossil fuel industry talking points emphasizing short-term -- and often biased -- economic costs. </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Beginning during the Obama administration, Special Report relentlessly attacked the Environmental Protection Agency, framing its mitigation efforts as executive overreach without regard to the economy. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In April 2009, then-chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle declared on Special Report that the EPA’s finding that carbon dioxide could be restricted under the Clean Air Act “could hardly be more sweeping because it could affect everything from airliners to lawnmowers and almost every corner of the U.S. economy,” fearmongering that it “has the potential for shutting down or slowing down virtually all economic activity” without mentioning the environmental benefits of the proposed regulations</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a June 2011 segment on Special Report, disgraced former </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Fox correspondent Doug McKelway cited the Heritage Foundation's Nick Loris,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> who argued that President Obama and then-Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson's carbon emission reduction policies “are intended to raise energy prices, and lower-income families pay a disproportionately higher percent of their income on energy prices,” resulting in the policies “hurting those people more than helping them</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.” In reality, Loris was pushing an oversimplified view of carbon pricing legislation. A study by the World Resources Institute found that legislation addressing either a carbon tax or cap-and-trade program does not “inherently help or hurt lower-income households.” Its impact depends on how the policy is designed; for example, a small portion of the revenue raised from carbon pricing could be offered as rebates to protect low-income households from increasing energy prices.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>A month later, Angle appeared in another segment quoting both Loris, who claimed that the Obama administration’s plan to increase fuel efficiency standards would “be a significant ramp-up,” and the former chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association, who fearmongered that the change would be costly to business and result in hundreds of thousands of job losses</b>. In April 2014, Baier himself responded to the announcement that a federal appeals court upheld stricter emission standards from the EPA by citing complaints from anonymous “state and industry groups'' that the “new limits on toxins” would “cost billions of dollars annually to comply.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In March 2016, current Fox prime-time host Laura Ingraham appeared on Special Report and mocked people “losing sleep over the environment every night,” declaring that the Obama administration’s environmental regulations were actually “about redistributing wealth and making America poorer.” Baier failed to push back on this absurd framing.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>During the Trump administration, however, it became clear that Special Report was complicit in the demise of the network’s “news side,” serving as an echo chamber of misinformation to advance the GOP agenda.</b> In Obama’s first term, Special Report worked to oppose the administration’s efforts to curb climate change, spreading one and a half times more misinformation and false or misleading narratives about than it did during the Trump presidency, when the show championed positive coverage of the short-term economic benefits of rolling back Obama-era regulations. During Trump’s final year in office, Special Report -- seemingly sympathetic to the president’s apathetic stance on the climate -- spread the least amount of misinformation or misleading narratives about climate change during the studied time period, with only 52 instances.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One segment from December 2016 demonstrates how the show used misinformation and dubious claims to pave the way for Trump’s deregulatory agenda. Correspondent James Rosen cited the conservative <b>American Action Forum’s claim that “recent EPA rules on heavy trucks pushed the total regulatory price tag over the next 10 years over the $1 trillion mark,” requiring “every man, woman, and child in our regulation nation to cough up $3,080 a piece to satisfy it.”</b> The heavy trucks regulation in question -- an increase in the fuel efficiency standards -- would ultimately have reduced global warming emissions by 1.1 billion tonnes and saved the trucking industry $170 billion per year. Despite AAF Director of Regulatory Policy Sam Batkins admitting that the group does little research to check whether cost estimates fit reality, Rosen assured viewers that “Mr. Trump has vowed to carry a war of attrition to the regulatory beast.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Special Report’s focus on the perceived economic disruption and “<b>socialist”</b> implications of climate legislation has dogged Democratic efforts at climate mitigation, demonizing all legislation -- from Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal to the <b>Green New Deal</b> to Biden’s more moderate 2021 climate plan -- as radical attempts to wreak havoc on the American economy and livelihoods. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Attacking and spreading misinformation about the Green New Deal has been Fox News’ priority for the past two years; when it was first introduced, the network aired far more segments than its cable network counterparts on the proposal. As the flagship program of Fox’s “news” division, Special Report made no effort to differentiate itself from the network’s opinion coverage, with Baier characterizing the deal as “one of the most controversial political manifestos” and suggesting that the expensive price tag would lead to wasteful spending as part of “the Democrats' campaign against the prosperous.” </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In February 2019, Baier hosted Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemmingway to complain that “there is not really a case being made for why you would need to upend your lives, destroy life as you know it, destroy wealth, destroy job opportunities, get rid of massive industries that employ thousands and millions of people, and for what?”</b> Hemingway concluded that polls showing American support for the deal could only be attributed to pollsters asking people if they “want free things,” referring to the Green New Deal’s proposed guaranteed “economic security." <b>Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York dismissed public support for funding the deal, claiming that “the idea that most Americans would think that climate change is a World War II-like crisis is really unlikely.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citation From the February 7, 2019, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>These pointed attacks on the Green New Deal reflect the rhetoric often espoused on Fox opinion shows, such as by Sean Hannity, who referenced the Green New Deal in relation to Biden on April 20, 2020, claiming that “there are no moderates in today's radical, extreme Democratic socialist party.</b>” In July 2020, Hannity lambasted Biden for “taking his cues from the most radical, the most extreme socialist extremist that this party has ever embraced, the Democratic modern socialist party.” Hannity then complained about the price tag of the climate proposal, exclaiming that it would “turn America into a socialist, bankrupt hellhole.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Baier did not push back in January after Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel used language similar to Hannity’s rants to attack the incoming Biden administration and the climate bill, stating that she would not “cede our country to the far left who want to turn toward socialism, institute the Green New Deal, and remake America as we know it.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citation From the July 14, 2020, edition of Hannity</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Special Report fuels nationalistic and misleading narratives opposing global climate efforts</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Efforts to prevent and counter the worst consequences of global climate change have to be negotiated at the international level and require unprecedented cooperation between countries in order to succeed. But in covering those efforts, such as the U.S. signing on to the Paris climate agreement under Obama, Baier and his guests on Special Report instead<b> echoed isolationist narratives to undermine global mitigation efforts.</b> Like Fox opinion-side personalities, they suggested that international mitigation efforts are detrimental to the U.S. economy, that they favor China and India over America, and that global cooperation would fail to stave off the worst effects of climate change. <b>Statements that fueled these nationalistic and misleading narratives opposed to global climate efforts constituted 8% of the total misinformation and false narratives spread on Special Report during the studied time period.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In an appearance on Special Report in December 2009, the late conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer repeated one of the most prevalent talking points used to oppose climate action, suggesting that an international climate agreement would “mean a serious constriction of the U.S. economy, a lowering of our standard of living.” This claim is false and driven by a flailing fossil fuel industry attempting to distract from its own “terminal decline” by scapegoating climate mitigation efforts. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>This line of attack was echoed on the network’s opinion side as recently as this year, when climate denier Marc Morano appeared on the January 21 episode of Fox & Friends First to claim that rejoining the Paris agreement is “climate virtue signaling” that will “hammer middle America, blue-collar America, [and] Americans on middle class and lower income.</b>” In reality, committing to Paris emission reductions and building a 100% clean energy economy would create up to 25 million well-paid American jobs, and clean energy jobs are “more likely to be unionized and come with health care and retirement benefits than the rest of the private sector.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In a May 2014 appearance on Special Report, Krauthammer pushed the idea that international agreements, specifically the Paris climate accord, would benefit China at the expense of American prosperity because China lacked a legally binding commitment to emissions reductions</b>. Krauthammer stated, “As we dismantle the coal plants in our country, China and India together are adding one coal fire plant every other week. The net effect is to shift the U.S. coal energy generating industry from here to India and China. It will have zero effect.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>This argument was repeated on the May 31, 2017, edition of Fox & Friends, when Fox Business host Stuart Varney denigrated the Paris climate accord as an “unequal” agreement meant to “take money and resources off Europe and America” to “give it to other countries,” including China</b>. More recently, Fox opinion host Laura Ingraham expanded upon this argument in April, characterizing global cooperation on climate as tentative at best, with each nation pursuing “what’s in its best interest.” Ingraham then dismissed Biden’s “grand” climate plans as ineffective for failing to reduce global temperatures “at all.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These are bad-faith arguments and they do not account for the fact that not only has the U.S. caused more global warming than any other country and maintains the higher per capita emissions rates, but it also lags behind China on substantive commitments to renewable energy and technology. Furthermore, climate change and its disruptions transcend national borders and are intrinsically linked to the public health, socioeconomic well-being, and growth of every nation. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In yet another appearance on Special Report in May 2017 dismissing the impact of Trump’s promise to pull out of the Paris accord, Krauthammer advanced the argument that U.S. participation in the “extremely weak” agreement was inconsequential, and he claimed it only made a “marginal difference” if “we are in it or out of it</b>.” This sentiment on climate policy efficacy was also echoed this year on Fox’s opinion side by Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg on the January 21 edition of Fox & Friends. He argued that rejoining the Paris agreement would “cost a fortune and cut almost nothing, so basically achieve almost nothing to fix climate change.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These arguments exploit legitimate concerns of the Paris agreement --that measures agreed to at the accord will not be enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius -- not to garner support for the strengthening of global commitments, but to gripe about the inherent complexities of any global treaty and ultimately erode support for addressing the climate crisis on any level. Despite Paris’ shortcomings, the U.S.’s participation in the agreement — as the second biggest greenhouse gas emitter — represented a critical step toward global climate mitigation. As international markets transition toward clean energy, it is imperative that the United States can advocate for American jobs and workers. Moreover, global emissions reductions work -- in 2016, global emissions flat-lined for the third year in a row even as the global economy grew, partly because the U.S. and China cut their emissions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Special Report undermines the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baier and his guests made statements that undermined the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis in more than 5% of Special Report’s misinformation and false or misleading narratives around climate change. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>These bad-faith arguments have also come from Fox’s opinion side, which has framed the idea of addressing climate change as requiring personal sacrifice from individual viewers.</b> Special Report suggested climate-conscious consumers should not own pets, should limit their hamburger intake, should accept rougher toilet paper, and should feel guilt for using water at hotels or pumping gas for their car. These segments’ reckless linking of personal consumer choices to environmental protection lets the real culprits -- the 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions -- escape responsibility for the worst impacts of climate change, while discouraging popular support for climate action.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Special Report also followed Fox’s signature strategy of focusing on some prominent people’s actions to deflect from those individuals’ concerns about the climate, using charges of hypocrisy as a smokescreen for climate inaction. Baier dedicated segments to personal carbon footprints, pointing to Obama traveling to an Earth Day rally; first lady Michelle Obama flying to Copenhagen to advocate for Chicago to host the Olympics; Prince Charles encouraging environmental awareness; Hillary Clinton traveling during her presidential campaign; and, most recently, Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry using a private jet. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On the February 4 edition of Special Report, correspondent Kristin Fisher noted that Kerry was “not necessarily leading by example by taking a private plane to Iceland to accept an environmental award.” Later in the episode, <b>Fox contributor Byron York said that “he's got a government plane now, and you don't marry into a billionaire family if you want to fly commercial.” </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This coverage on Fox’s flagship “straight news” show echoed a line of attacks on Kerry from Fox’s opinion hosts, such as Sean Hannity’s January 28 statement that “it’s almost as if John Kerry isn’t that concerned about the environment after all” and Tucker Carlson’s February 3 accusation that Kerry was being “hypocritical.” These personal attacks and red herring arguments serve dual roles -- to villainize and discredit specific activists while trivializing the urgency of the climate crisis. It is a well-worn tactic, as demonstrated by Special Report, that is used across the network’s opinion and “straight news” programming.]GORE TENN HOUSE]</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the January 28, 2021, edition of Fox News' Hannity</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the February 3, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Conclusion</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate scientists have overwhelmingly warned for years that unless immediate action is taken to address the climate crisis, irreversible environmental consequences will impact every aspect of our daily lives -- ranging from an exacerbated refugee crisis to devastating economic impacts to irreversible environmental degradation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The stakes for news media to cover this issue seriously and responsibly could not be higher as Biden attempts to simultaneously reestablish United States' leadership in global mitigation and advocate for bold climate legislation, while the deadline to limit global warming to 1.5 C draws closer.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet climate coverage on Special Report with Bret Baier has been characterized by blatantly false, biased, and desperate attempts to undermine climate change action and environmental protections. Ultimately, Special Report is another extension of Fox News’ climate denial machine, serving to sow misinformation and doubt to defend the politicians who actively prevent any climate mitigation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Methodology</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media Matters searched transcripts in the Nexis database for Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier for any of the terms and any derivations of the terms climate change, global warming, climate, global temperatures, climate science, climate scientist, Paris climate, climate accord, Paris accord, climate agreement, Paris agreement, climate deal, climate crisis, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, green new deal, climate conference, climate plan, carbon emissions, greenhouse gases, green, Keystone Pipeline, Dakota Pipeline, or energy from January 1, 2009, through May 3, 2021.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Different media outlets approached it in <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/06/to-fox-a-legally-mandated-climate-change-report/199186" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">different ways</a>, but when it came to CNN’s <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">Crossfire </em>… well, not surprisingly, the show opted for a debate about the science.</font></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; border: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; line-height: 22.8px;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 235px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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Nye was up against not only conservative host S.E. Cupp, who said the White House was engaging in global warming “scare tactics” and accused “science guys” of attempting to “bully other people,” but also</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b> <a href="http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/l/nicolas-loris" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">Nick Loris</a> of the Heritage Foundation.</b> Loris acknowledged that humans are responsible for “some part” of the changing climate and claimed that “I’m not a denier, I’m not a skeptic,” but he also asserted that “we’ve had Arctic ice, globally, increasing” (<a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/arctic-sea-ice-recovers-to-6th-lowest-extent-in-millennia.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">not!</a>) and that “we’ve had this 16-to-17-year hiatus in warming.” (Actually, the notion that global warming is “slowing down” is <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/global-warming-slowdown-ipcc" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; 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He covers coal, oil and gas and renewable energy policy and articulates the benefits of free market environmentalism.</font></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 18px; float: none;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 235px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 55px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 70px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 235px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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He is a prolific contributor to the energy and environment section of </span><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/category/energy-and-environment/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">The Foundry</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Heritage's policy blog.</span></font></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 18px; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 235px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 55px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 70px; 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The fellowship was endowed by retired real estate developer Herbert Morgan and his late wife, Joyce, of Arlington, Va., longtime proponents of free enterprise and limited government.</font></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 18px; float: none;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 235px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 55px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 70px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 235px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; 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Koch Charitable Foundation,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> immersing himself for a year in a market-based management program. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">His first media experience was as an editorial intern for Townhall.com.</span></font></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 18px; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 235px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 55px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; top: 70px; left: 157.5px; height: 0.8125rem; width: 0.8125rem; position: absolute;"><i class="tooltiparrow" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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