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Paris climate agreement: Trump said to be pulling US out of global accord – live | |
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The American Civil Liberties Union calls today’s move by Trump “a massive step back for racial justice”: | |
Pulling out of the Paris Agreement would be a massive step back for racial justice, and an assault on communities of color across the U.S. | |
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Here’s that live stream again. So you have it handy: | |
.@realdonaldtrump late to the planet's own funeral – live #actonclimate https://t.co/OWSCHfTtQe | |
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Environmental groups have pointed out that the Trump administration’s executive orders setting aside Obama-era emissions caps and other environmental protections have represented an abandonment of the fight against climate change before today’s news. | |
Which means that should the next US president be sympathetic to the idea of re-joining the Paris accord (assuming it still exists), he/she will have more work to do than simply signing back on to this one deal. | |
Trump, per a source, will follow the 4-yr rule to get out of Paris, meaning the US will leave on Nov 4, 2020.Election Day 2020: Nov 3. | |
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WH chief of staff Reince Priebus is wearing a green tie. Oh the irony. pic.twitter.com/JEPw9gFmz9 | |
Priebus in green. What can it mean? Only one thing. Covfefe. | |
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Today is a win for chief strategist Steve Bannon, who with Environmental Protection Administrator Scott Pruitt urged the president to jettison the Paris deal. | |
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While we wait... here’s more from the band: | |
Military jazz quartet accompanying Trump's Paris pull-out announcement at WH: "Surreal...its like the Titanic band," 1 guy here says pic.twitter.com/LFqxOi4er0 | |
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White House talking points released – reports | |
Politico has published a document it says is the White House talking points for pulling out of the Paris accord. | |
The document squares with other reports about it. It reads: | |
Paris Accord – TALKERS | |
Topline: The Paris Accord is a BAD deal for Americans, and the President’s action today is keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first. The Accord was negotiated poorly by the Obama Administration and signed out of desperation. It frontloads costs on the American people to the detriment of our economy and job growth while extracting meaningless commitments from the world’s top global emitters, like China. The U.S. is already leading the world in energy production and doesn’t need a bad deal that will harm American workers. | |
UNDERMINES U.S. Competitiveness and Jobs | |
According to a study by NERA Consulting, meeting the Obama Administration’s requirements in the Paris Accord would cost the U.S. economy nearly $3 trillion over the next several decades. | |
By 2040, our economy would lose 6.5 million industrial sector jobs – including 3.1 million manufacturing sector jobs | |
It would effectively decapitate our coal industry, which now supplies about one-third of our electric power | |
The deal was negotiated BADLY, and extracts meaningless commitments from the world’s top polluters | |
The Obama-negotiated Accord imposes unrealistic targets on the U.S. for reducing our carbon emissions, while giving countries like China a free pass for years to come. | |
Under the Accord, China will actually increase emissions until 2030 | |
The U.S. is ALREADY a Clean Energy and Oil & Gas Energy Leader; we can reduce our emissions and continue to produce American energy without the Paris Accord | |
America has already reduced its carbon-dioxide emissions dramatically. | |
Since 2006, CO2 emissions have declined by 12 percent, and are expected to continue to decline. | |
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. is the leader in oil & gas production. | |
The agreement funds a UN Climate Slush Fund underwritten by American taxpayers | |
President Obama committed $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund - which is about 30 percent of the initial funding – without authorization from Congress | |
With $20 trillion in debt, the U.S. taxpayers should not be paying to subsidize other countries’ energy needs. | |
The deal also accomplishes LITTLE for the climate | |
According to researchers at MIT, if all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate would be negligible. The impacts have been estimated to be likely to reduce global temperature rise by less than .2 degrees Celsius in 2100. | |
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Live stream: Trump withdraws from Paris deal | |
Via the White House on Youtube: | |
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Trump to call Paris accord a 'BAD' deal | |
White House talking points obtained by The Associated Press say that the Paris accord “is a BAD deal for Americans” and that the president’s action would keep “his campaign promise to put American workers first”: | |
“The Accord,” the document goes on to say, “was negotiated poorly by the Obama Administration and signed out of desperation.” | |
“The U.S. is already leading the world in energy production and doesn’t need a bad deal that will harm American workers,” it reads. | |
The White House had signaled that withdrawal was likely, but Trump has been known to change his mind at the last minute on such major decisions. | |
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A former Obama senior adviser says the notion that the United States was cornered into making a bad deal in Paris is wrong: | |
"Better deal" talk is incoherent. The U.S. sets its own Paris target. | |
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David Smith | David Smith |
Guardian Washington correspondent David Smith is in the Rose Garden, where “a band is playing bouncy, upbeat jazz”: | Guardian Washington correspondent David Smith is in the Rose Garden, where “a band is playing bouncy, upbeat jazz”: |
“I hear the unmistakable notes of ‘Summertime, and the livin’ is easy’ (orchestral only, no singer). Strangely apt for global warming.” | “I hear the unmistakable notes of ‘Summertime, and the livin’ is easy’ (orchestral only, no singer). Strangely apt for global warming.” |
Update: dig the bass: | Update: dig the bass: |
They're playing smooth jazz in the Rose Garden ahead of the president's announcement on the Paris climate accord pic.twitter.com/bPt34W1HP5 | They're playing smooth jazz in the Rose Garden ahead of the president's announcement on the Paris climate accord pic.twitter.com/bPt34W1HP5 |
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Reuters and the Washington Post are quoting from a document said to be Trump’s upcoming speech. They have this: | Reuters and the Washington Post are quoting from a document said to be Trump’s upcoming speech. They have this: |
Trump to say decision to withdraw ‘is keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first’ | Trump to say decision to withdraw ‘is keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first’ |
Trump to say Paris climate agreement ‘front loads costs on American people’ - document | Trump to say Paris climate agreement ‘front loads costs on American people’ - document |
Trump to say that the accord was bad, negotiated poorly by Obama administration and signed out of desperation. | Trump to say that the accord was bad, negotiated poorly by Obama administration and signed out of desperation. |