i am glade he pulled out off the climate deal . lo

i am glade he pulled out off the climate deal . look at this




Climate

How the World Has Changed Since the Paris Agreement on Global Warming

A list of progress and failures in the wake of the historic agreement to combat climate change

By John Upton, Climate Central on March 17, 2016

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United States

The past three months have been a wild ride for President Obama’s highest-profile—and most important—set of rules designed to help the nation meet its Paris pledge.

The U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan would impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s heavily polluting power sector. The rules were crafted to bypass the Republican-controlled Congress , but they’re being challenged in court by conservative states and fossil fuel companies.

Last month, the Supreme Court surprised onlookers by ruling 5-4 to prevent the EPA from enforcing the rules until the legal dispute has been settled. Harvard University expert Robert Stavins described that as a signal that the court was “more likely than not” to eventually strike down the rules.

Less than a week later, the court’s most reliable vote against environmental regulations, Antonin Scalia, died in Texas, giving Obama an opportunity to nominate a justice who is likely to be more friendly to environmental rules. On Wednesday, he nominated Merrick Garland, a centrist appeals court judge, “daring Republican senators to refuse consideration of a jurist who is highly regarded throughout Washington,” the New York Times reported.

The fate of the Clean Power Plan won’t just be decided by the courts—it’s also at the heart of a schism between Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, with a general election scheduled for November. While Democrats have been doubling down on their support for the pro-climate rules, leading Republican candidates have been arguing they would threaten America’s economy.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ho...l-warming/