[Ed Note: What follows is the official press release from President Donald Trump at the White House. It marks the official stance of the United States pulling out of the Paris Agreement. Though there is certainly a political aspect to this, I would like to see if we can try to avoid political bickering and focus discussion on the actual details of the press release. See, also, our previous coverage, Report: Trump Plans to Exit Paris Climate Agreement. --martyb]
From the desk of President Donald J. Trump
For Immediate Release
June 01, 2017
President Trump Puts American Jobs First
“Our government rushed to join international agreements where the United States pays the costs and bears the burdens while other countries get the benefit and pay nothing.” – President Donald J. Trump
ALREADY THE WORLD’S ENERGY LEADER: The United States had already become the leader in cutting CO2 emissions while still leading in oil & gas production.
HARMFUL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: The Paris Climate Accord could cost the United States economy millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in economic output over the next several decades.
SHOULDERING THE BURDEN: Under the Paris Climate Accord, the United States would carry the burden while other countries would get the benefits.
INEFFECTIVE: Even if every nation fully complied with the Paris Climate Accord, it would barely impact the climate.
PROMISE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: President Trump is fulfilling his promise to the American people to stop international agreements that disadvantage the United States.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by n1 on Friday June 02 2017, @04:05AM (15 children)
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs apparently used this opportunity to make his first ever tweet. [twitter.com]
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday June 02 2017, @04:10AM (1 child)
Let the Californians deal with it. I'm sure they will.
Hahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaahhah!
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday June 02 2017, @04:58AM
Aren't you a Californian? What are your plans?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Friday June 02 2017, @04:10AM (9 children)
Wow, now we know Trump made the right play. I'm sure GS had it's filthy fucking hands into whatever shitty scheme the Globalists cooked up to allow US to continue it's current CO2 emission levels, but pay some sort of a fee, of which they would happily cut something off the top. Someone did some quick math and the deal would cost every American worker $7K, not to mention the jobs that would be lost.
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Friday June 02 2017, @04:17AM (7 children)
Jesus Christ he is getting torn to shreds by Meme Jihadis and normies alike.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @04:47AM (6 children)
What does "normies" mean ?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 02 2017, @05:04AM (5 children)
It's something edgy edgelords of extreme edginess like this jackoff call people they believe to be insufficiently edgy. The irony is that the kind of person who thinks "normie" is an insult with any weight is, in almost any social/economic/cultural measure you can think of, almost certainly close enough to the mean to stand atop the peak of the distribution.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday June 02 2017, @05:25AM (2 children)
So do you use this word?
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday June 02 2017, @05:43AM
"So, whose brain was it"
"Abby someone, . . . Abby Normal, yeah, that's what it was!"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 02 2017, @06:07PM
Only in one context: when one of said edgelords accuses someone else of being one. My response is typically some variant of "Hate to break this to you, but given you're white, middle class, American, and upholding the status quo, *you* are the "normie," not your target. In case you need this explained to you, supporting the status quo is by definition the least rebellious thing you can do."
This generally happens when people go "ooooh lookit me, being all politically incorrent! so edgy! so rebellious! Cuck cuck cuck faggot cuck libtard hurr hurr!"
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Friday June 02 2017, @11:51AM (1 child)
It's perfectly fine to be a normie. Some of my best friends are normies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @07:03PM
Did you just try to "some of my best friends are black" your way out of that?
Hilarious!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @04:58AM
I guess you've never heard of virtue signaling. Because an after-the-fact tweet ain't going to make a difference.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @06:21AM (2 children)
Carbon trading is obviously loved by traders. It wouldn't just be innocent purchase of credits, with polluters buying from "green tech" makers and countries that save forests.
First of all, traders get to skim off the top. Pretty much the whole economy would pass through their hands, with them taking a cut.
Then there is the opportunity for high-frequency trading and bubbles. Recall the problems with gasoline prices that shot up from $2/gal to $4/gal, or from $3/gal to $6/gal in expensive states, and then right back down again a little later. Recall the housing bubble. Recall how Enron caused blackouts in California. Traders don't give a fuck that normal people might use resources for something other than gambling.
Carbon trading was the ultimate fantasy for that asshole. Of course he's bummed to lose the opportunity to extract money from the entire US economy. He cares not for the environment. He can go fuck himself, then die in a fire.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 02 2017, @01:03PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @01:42PM
> Then there is the opportunity for high-frequency trading and bubbles.
> Recall the housing bubble. Recall how Enron caused blackouts in California
Your post reads like you just threw together a list of every conceivable problem with any kind of market and just assumed that's the way carbon credits work.
Its pretty weak sauce.
And what do you propose instead of carbon trading?