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[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.
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In the United States, energy related carbon dioxide emissions have significantly declined since before the Paris Climate Accord was negotiated, and will continue to decline as a share of worldwide emissions, particularly when compared to other nations such as China and India.
- The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 2017 Annual Energy Outlook reports that, from 2005 to 2016, energy related carbon dioxide emissions fell at an average annual rate of 1.4%.
- Emissions are projected to continue to fall from 2016 to 2040.
- Meanwhile, the EIA reports that emissions in the developing world are expected to double their 2005 levels by 2040.
- According to recent U.S. Energy Information Administration, the United States remained the world’s top producer of oil and natural gas combined.
- The United States continues to be a world leader in energy, but increased competition from countries like China demonstrates the need for policies that enable America to compete on a global scale.
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.
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According to an analysis by National Economic Research Associates (NERA), meeting President Obama’s commitment under the Paris Climate Accord would cost the United States nearly $3 trillion by 2040.
- By 2040, the American economy could have 6.5 million fewer industrial sector jobs, including 3.1 million fewer manufacturing jobs.
- Industries such as cement, iron and steel, coal, natural gas, and petroleum would be forced to cut production under President Obama’s Paris Climate Accord.
SHOULDERING THE BURDEN: Under the Paris Climate Accord, the United States would carry the burden while other countries would get the benefits.
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Under the Obama Administration, which signed an agreement without having to deal with the economic repercussions, the United States was committed to reducing CO2 emissions by between 26 and 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.
- Meanwhile China can continue to increase emissions for the next 13 years.
- The United States already contributed $1 billion to a UN Green Climate Fund. This would increase to $3 billion under pledges made by the previous Administration.
INEFFECTIVE: Even if every nation fully complied with the Paris Climate Accord, it would barely impact the climate.
- According to researchers from MIT, if every nation that signed the Paris Climate Accord met all of their commitments until the end of the century, the impact on the climate would be negligible.
PROMISE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: President Trump is fulfilling his promise to the American people to stop international agreements that disadvantage the United States.
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May 26, 2016, then-candidate Trump:
- “President Obama entered the United States into the Paris Climate Accords— unilaterally, and without the permission of Congress.”
- “So foreign bureaucrats are going to be controlling what we are using and what we are doing on our land in our country. No way.”
(Score: 5, Touché) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Friday June 02 2017, @04:41AM (22 children)
Promises kept? Where's our awesome gun laws? Why are DACA immigrants not deported? Where's the ban on muslims and a registry? Why is NAFTA still humming along? What happened to branding China a currency manipulator and 45% tariffs? Obama's "weak foreign policy" has been replaced with... nothing. He attacked NATO and now says "NATO is useful". Where's the WALL? Where's our tax cuts? What happened to something "much much better" than ObamaCare (aka MItt RomneyCare)?
Trump has delivered mostly rhetoric: he promised to gut h1b and yet it's just been bruised with some back door regulatory re-interpretation. Where's his new America first foreign policy? All he's done is run some carriers up the coast of Korea and pursued... sanctions! Wow. How original.
When he shot missiles at Syria Bannon said don't do it - he campaigned on being a non-interventionist. He listened to his democrat son-in-law instead. Missiles fired.
He pulled out of the TPP but that was an attempt to strategically align nations against China. Promise kept but now the anti-Chinese coalition has Trump who just cut major trade deals with China, and is relying on China for his foreign policy "win" with NoKo. Promise kept?
He's delivered on his anti-abortion promises - Supreme Court, various bans, etc. soon to be President Pence and friends are pleased.
https://newrepublic.com/article/114112/anonymouth-linguistic-tool-might-have-helped-jk-rowling
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @05:16AM
Not to mention his promise not to cut medicaid [thehill.com] when his budget cuts it by 1.3 trillion dollars. Also all those promises to say "radical islamic terrorism" but instead he goes to Saudi, and is too chicken to say "radical islamic terrorism" to their face instead he gives them a discount [cnbc.com] on an arms deal that includes weapons that not even Obama would sell to them. [cnbc.com] Not only did he fail to negotiate a good deal for America, he folded like a paper bag.
And then there is his wholesale adoption of the politics of vulgar realism where he says american values no longer matter when it comes to foreign policy. WTF? So much for putting America first. All it takes get him to sell out Amerca is for some tin-pot dictator to say nice things about him and he rolls over like a dog that wants his belly scratched.
(Score: 4, Informative) by jmorris on Friday June 02 2017, @05:16AM (14 children)
Patience grasshopper. So far when Trump checks off a promise it has been the real deal. And yes, we must make sure he knows we are still watching.
Other than a full national reciprocal carry, we don't actually need many new laws. And look at gun sales, they have plummeted so nobody is worried about any backsliding into gungrabbing New York thought patterns. NRA was one his first major endorsements, he ain't fool enough to think he can double cross those guys. They are THE single issue interest group.
Things on the border are getting sorted out. Jeff Sessions is getting his grip on the machinery and I certainly trust him to do what is required. And again, -they- believe, the numbers are way down and reports of "self deportation" are starting to appear.
Some of that was bargaining position walked back even before the election. And the rest is held up in the courts for now. Soon. Although I'm starting to think the only way to unconstipate the courts is going to be giving most of the 9th Circus helicopter rides....
Grade there is still incomplete / not started yet. But he does remind people that he hasn't forgot. Note that he already has both Canada and Mexico on record agreeing in principle to renegotiate. Who would have thought that would happen without lots of shouting.
He is waiting to see if China will play ball. If they deal with the Nork problem it is probably worth trading a pass on the currency thing for. Because if China can't solve it there are no other peaceful options left after Clinton, Bush and Obama punted. And that should frighten any sane person. War in Korea will be a nightmare, second in horror only to Norks with fully weaponized Nukes.
Oh I dunno, looks like the world got the memo you missed. They are pissed, they are bitching and moaning, but they are respecting our authoritah like they haven't in eight years.
You left out the part where NATO agreed to cure Trumps major objections. They are willing to work on the terror problem and have agreed to step up to their obligations instead of letting Uncle Sap pay for everything.
Bids for test sections have been let and work commencing. Grade: In Progress.
These two are beyond Trump's individual powers. Now we have to pressure the feckless weasels in the Republican Caucus to fulfil their promises. Promises they never, ever, intended to keep btw. But they probably will. Now. Because of Trump and fear of his voters.
And btw, for all the bluster from certain European capitals tonight, there will of course be negotiations. They won't reopen the Paris talks of course but there will be future negotiations. Remember Trump's mantra is we had been making BAD deals and he is right. Obama especially enjoyed making the worst deal possible because he hates us.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @05:22AM (2 children)
Your desperate struggle and failure to refute anything in that post is pretty funny.
Its so obvious how deeply committed you are to the emperror with no clothes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @06:54AM (1 child)
And your inability to refute any of his points immediately discredits your inane response.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @02:23PM
You can't respond to opinionated rhetoric, there are no facts to debate. Jmorris has nothing besides blind hope that Trump is a 72D chess master. It is laughable that anyone believes in the con man president.
I hope he gets impeached just so idiots like yourself have no more recourse and either get with reality or snap so we can lock you in a padded cell.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @06:30AM (5 children)
We need to flip the law around for gun mufflers. Guns made after 2018 should be sold only with mufflers capable of a minimum of 45 dB noise reduction. The gun mufflers themselves should be fully unrestricted items, available for anybody to purchase without ID in any state.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday June 02 2017, @07:48AM (2 children)
Ok, good one. But didn't we already open up silencer sales? I'm seeing ads for em on TV, never used to. Of course I never really saw firearm ads at all on TV so maybe that is just on TheBlaze. It comes outta Texas, it really is a whole other country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @08:31AM (1 child)
It's like pot. Federal law says no, but states have passed laws that purport to legalize it. Federal enforcement is spotty.
This is a horrible situation. It undermines the rule of law via selective enforcement. The last time we let this get out of hand, we even got a civil war.
We're going down a very bad path if we can't or won't uniformly enforce the law as written. We need to enforce federal law, even if we don't happen to like the law, while working to change the laws we hate.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Friday June 02 2017, @03:12PM
Even when the law is illegal? Not seeing it.
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Friday June 02 2017, @02:50PM (1 child)
It is vitally important that we protect the hearing of gun owners and every one around them. Make fixed suppressors mandatory and removal a capital offense. Make 45 dB the maximum allowable sound and no firearm can be sold that exceeds this limit. Seems more than reasonable, can't be too careful you know.
Should I add "Think of the children", yes, that should do it.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @01:31AM
If somebody's firing somewhere that bystanders aren't using hearing protection, you've probably got a bigger problem. Of course that would require addressing the socioeconomic factors that lead to people shooting up places, which Republicans have no interest in even trying to fix. Republicans seem to be, at the moment, the party of trying their damnedest to make everything worse. I think the Libertarians have a pretty good idea how to improve those socioeconomic factors, but the Greens are probably more comprehensive in this area. All the D team does is make some of the right noises from time to time and not a lot else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @02:30PM (3 children)
Every time I try to read someone's opinion that I disagree with on this site, they say dumb things like this -
I bet youre the first a-hole shouting about Kathy Griffin.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday June 02 2017, @06:14PM (1 child)
Actually, I wouldn't be offended by it at all, giving a D-List nobody a week of coverage was as dumb as what the attention whore did, i.e. we fed the troll. But I now totally support destroying her career over it because I am a believer in Alinsky's Rules. Especially the one that says "Make the Enemy live by his own book of rules." As someone on the Right I don't get to make the rules, but we are discovering we can demand they be equally enforced and should do so. A left celebutard like her would be the first into a twitter rage mob pile on for some random schlub in Iowa who won't make a gay wedding cake, forwarded the wrong email joke, a rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask, or some other retarded invented offense so she should not be permitted to object as the ragemob pressures venues to cancel her tour.
Only by pain will the Left be motivated to change the rules so people's lives aren't destroyed by offending somebody. Appealing to their better nature, reason etc. won't work because the left lacks those properties. But aversion to pain is universal so we must make it hurt.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @12:23PM
Its pretty funny how you try to have your cake and eat it too.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 02 2017, @06:46PM
J-Mo is a full-on fascist. He's not joking or trolling; he really believes things like this.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:19AM
> So far when Trump checks off a promise it has been the real deal.
Right (sneering) -- like the big White House party after the House passed their health care bill. Which means nothing since the Senate is hard at work on a completely different bill.
Trump declares a win and then moves on to the next smoke screen, in hopes that you don't notice that the first "win" was really a big loss. He's done this most of his life and is really good at staying half a step in front of everyone. You have to peer through the smoke to see what is actually happening--which is really very simple: he and his family are robbing us all blind.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by linkdude64 on Friday June 02 2017, @03:25PM (5 children)
I'd like to go down your list, if I may.
"Where's our awesome gun laws?"
Pro-Freedom rulings are forthcoming. A Pro-America and Pro-Constitution Judge has been appointed to the Supreme Court for the first time in a long time. The President doesn't make the rules.
"Why are DACA immigrants not deported?"
I can give you a few examples who have been, and each one is a victory, because it dissuades dozens more criminals from coming in: Yes, all DACA recipients are criminals for illegally entering the country.
"Where's the ban on muslims and a registry?"
He created one, and it was destroyed by an Anti-Constitution and Anti-American establishment that was set up by the previous administration. Should a bridge builder be charged with "Not building a bridge" when a Suicide-Bomber of Peace blows it up? I should think not.
"Why is NAFTA still humming along?"
It is creaking along, sweating, and "literally shaking." Mexico is already reacting to the re-negotiation announcements, and tensions amongst our countries are at a high since wartime, which is another victory in itself.
"What happened to branding China a currency manipulator and 45% tariffs?"
This was bargained for. China is now buying coal from the US now, amidst other changes.
"Obama's "weak foreign policy" has been replaced with... nothing."
Bombings, increased military spending, the increasing militarization of Japan, the cooperation with Russia in the middle east, NATO members finally getting serious about paying their dues...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @04:11PM
Ummm, yeah. About that, you might want to hold off on your victory lap until you see how Justice Gorsuch actually performs in his duties. He may very well end up being another Justice Souter. [wikipedia.org] But we'll see soon enough.
(Score: 3, Touché) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Friday June 02 2017, @05:14PM (3 children)
'd like to go down your list, if I may.
"Where's our awesome gun laws?"
>>Pro-Freedom rulings are forthcoming. A Pro-America and Pro-Constitution Judge has been appointed to the Supreme Court for the first time in a long time. The President doesn't make the rules.
What happed to "winning so much we're tired of winning"? Or is it now "Winning when the President makes the rules, which is rarely, and when other people let him when, which is not so much"?
"Why are DACA immigrants not deported?"
>>I can give you a few examples who have been, and each one is a victory, because it dissuades dozens more criminals from coming in: Yes, all DACA recipients are criminals for illegally entering the country.
Technically speaking all DACA ("dreamers") are illegals, so singling out one or two bad apples is hardly "living up to his promises". He vowed to deport close to 100% of all illegal aliens of which the DACA immigrants were a symbolic target. He didn't do it. What happened to winning? Or is it - "winning only one at a time with a few bad apples"?
"Where's the ban on muslims and a registry?"
>>He created one, and it was destroyed by an Anti-Constitution and Anti-American establishment that was set up by the previous administration. Should a bridge builder be charged with "Not building a bridge" when a Suicide-Bomber of Peace blows it up? I should think not.
What happened to winning? Or it is "Winning when the darn Constitution abiding deep state let's us win"?
"Why is NAFTA still humming along?"
>>It is creaking along, sweating, and "literally shaking." Mexico is already reacting to the re-negotiation announcements, and tensions amongst our countries are at a high since wartime, which is another victory in itself.
What happened to winning? Trump didn't say he'd have a "tension around winning that might indicate winning at some future date". NAFTA and the drugs pouring over our border are still in play. Where's the winning?
"What happened to branding China a currency manipulator and 45% tariffs?"
>> This was bargained for. China is now buying coal from the US now, amidst other changes.
That's not what he promised. Where are the winning tariffs so we're not being flooded by cheap Chinese goods? This doesn't sound like winning to me. He pulled out of TPP and now Paris, but NAFTA is still chugging along.
"Obama's "weak foreign policy" has been replaced with... nothing."
>>Bombings, increased military spending, the increasing militarization of Japan, the cooperation with Russia in the middle east, NATO members finally getting serious about paying their dues...
Sorry to break this to you but bombing isn't a foreign policy, increased military spending isn't a foreign policy, the militarization of Japan has been happening some time and Trump has had little to do with it, at least some of the bombing you've mentioned actually hurt our cooperation with Russia, and NATO members have been paying dues - although Trump said it was irrelevant and now flip-flopped and said it's OK (after he decided to ignore his earlier anti-interventionist positions and become a democrat-hawk under the guidance of his son in law Kushner). I don't see any "Winning" here. This is just Obama era status quo++.
We're not winning, and Trump isn't winning, and we're not even close to getting sick of winning because - well - it's not happening. That is, unless someone let's it happen and apparently it's not under Trumps control.
https://newrepublic.com/article/114112/anonymouth-linguistic-tool-might-have-helped-jk-rowling
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday June 02 2017, @10:52PM (2 children)
"What happed to "winning so much we're tired of winning"? Or is it now "Winning when the President makes the rules, which is rarely, and when other people let him when, which is not so much"?"
This is not an argument.
"He vowed to deport close to 100% of all illegal aliens of which the DACA immigrants were a symbolic target. He didn't do it. "
This is an argument. He changed his mind - to me, personally - for the better. Yours is the fanatic's mindset in action: Trump changes his mind in a positive way, he's a weakling. Trump doubles down on his promise to leave the Paris Accord, he's bull-headed and shouldn't be President. Please realize that you have obvious double-standards.
"What happened to winning? Or it is "Winning when the darn Constitution abiding deep state let's us win"?"
This is not an argument. The Consitution explicitly grants the President rights to deny ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE OR PEOPLES FOR ANY REASON. A ban against countries is not a ban against individual citizens on any basis, Trump's words as a candidate are not equal to Trump's as the President, in terms of the legally drafted Executive Order, which was - as you surely know - based on the exact list of country's the Obama administration had listed as terrorist hot spots.
"Where are the winning tariffs so we're not being flooded by cheap Chinese goods? "
The resurgence in US manufacturing and sense of nationalism Trump is inspiring will replace the sales gradually.
You are expressing yourself like a child. I, nor any republican I have ever seen, read from, or spoken to EVER stamped their feet and said, "Well Obama, it's month 3! Where's the perfect EVERYTHING that you promised us?" I am almost dumbstruck at how high your expectations of Trump are - they are even higher than the standards I am sure you would have had for Hillary or had for Obama as far as their campaign promises go. Is it perhaps a Freudian-slip admission that you recognize him as far more competent, accomplished, and capable an individual than any candidate or President in recent history, having expected him to entirely reform the massively intrenched MIC, Congressional and lobbyist establishments, and "deep state" within 3 months time? In truth, the fact that one person was able to shake the foundations of said establishment (just look at how embarassingly the DNC is stumbling over their own feet - failure after failure - the people whom you would have rather seen in power) is incredible in itself. Single-handedly un-seating one of the most monied and powerful institutions in the world "on time and under-budget."
You don't have to give credit where it's due, but that says more about you than it does about anyone else.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @12:19PM
So, in other words, it doesn't matter what Don the Con actually does -- as long as he makes liberals cry, he's doing his job.
(Score: 2) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Sunday June 04 2017, @01:07AM
You mean to actually *expect* that Donald Trump will deliver on his promises for the first 100 days ( a timeline he set btw not me) is wholly unrealistic and shows my childlike naivete?
And I quote:"What follows is my 100 day action plan to make America great again..."
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102316-Contractv02.pdf [donaldjtrump.com]
So does this childishness also extend to everyone who voted for him? Or is it just me?
To sum up: he hasn't delivered. It's been a hundred days. Am I missing something?
https://newrepublic.com/article/114112/anonymouth-linguistic-tool-might-have-helped-jk-rowling