The Trump administration is happy to roll back the
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I don't have to believe the Chinese proclamations, 3rd party and sattelite measurement of pollution levels is fine for me.
The 'science' is not on the side of 'do nothing'.
Keep on pushing misinformation and hysteria about 'socialism', I'll go with the facts:
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http://mashable.com/2017/06/01/trump-paris-cl...KbnV6LO5qw
3. The Paris agreement places “draconian financial and economic burdens” on U.S. businesses, workers, and families
The Paris agreement doesn’t require the U.S. to do anything it doesn’t want to do. Each nation submits its own plan for reducing emissions, but the U.N. can’t punish it for not following suit.
This lack of real teeth is why environmentalists have criticized the treaty as weak, when compared to the challenge of the climate crisis. But there’s nothing draconian about voluntary and non-binding terms.
4. The Paris agreement will hurt the U.S. economy and destroy jobs
In his speech, Trump cited an analysis that claimed the U.S. commitment under the Paris agreement would cost the U.S. economy nearly $3 trillion and eliminate 6.5 million industrial sector jobs by 2040.
The Obama-era commitment says the U.S. will cut carbon emissions by 26 to 28 percent by 2025, compared to 2005 levels. America is already about halfway toward meeting that target, in large part because cheaper, lower-carbon natural gas has replaced coal as the main U.S. electricity source.
National Economic Research Associates, a consulting firm that often produces anti-regulation studies, conducted the report Trump cited. But the firm assumes “highly unrealistic and unnecessarily expensive” actions are taken to reduce emissions.
It also figures that clean energy technologies, such as wind and solar power and electric cars, see no significant cost reductions or innovative advances, making them appear “artificially costly,” according to the nonpartisan World Resources Institute (WRI).