President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order pulling the U.S. out of 66 international organizations, which the order says are “contrary to the interests of the United States.” [some emphasis, links added]
Among those organizations Trump targeted are two prominent climate organizations — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Trump Accused Of “Denying Climate Science”
The decision set off alarms among climate and renewable energy advocacy groups. Jason Walsh, executive director of the Blue Green Alliance, said Trump had ceded climate leadership with “ignorant statements denying climate science.”
“Trump is hell-bent on destroying not only any meaningful climate action for our country but for the entire planet,” Walsh said in the statement.
Max Frankel, executive director of Sustainable Energy and Environment Institute, said Trump’s actions won’t halt global climate action.
“Far from protecting America’s interests, leaving these agreements gives up our seat at the international decision-making table,” Max Frankel, executive director of Sustainable Energy and Environment Institute, said in a statement.
Others Say Withdrawal Was “Long Overdue”
While climate advocates are upset, other experts see the order as a positive development in rolling back disadvantageous climate policies.
The UNFCCC is an international agreement under the umbrella of the U.N., which was adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and 198 countries signed onto it.
Its goal was to address the concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere out of concern over their impact on the climate system, and to do so in a sufficient time frame.
The signatories of the agreement meet annually in the “Conference of the Parties” events, known as COP. This year’s COP30 took place in Belém, Brazil, and the United States had no formal participation in the conference.
A key agreement that came out of the UNFCCC was the 2015 Paris Agreement — signed at COP21 — in which signing nations, including the U.S., agreed to reduce emissions so that temperatures wouldn’t rise over 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, which was about the level they were at in 1850.
Trump pulled the U.S. out of the agreement at the start of both his terms.
The UNFCCC was a key part of a wave of global climate policies over the last decade that sought to rapidly eliminate fossil fuels.
Critics have long blamed net-zero emissions policies for, among other things, driving up energy costs, pursuing impractical alternative technologies, and undermining economic development.
Steve Milloy, senior legal fellow with the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute and publisher of “JunkScience.com,” told Just the News that Trump’s withdrawal was “long past due.”
Milloy added that “Trump has taken us out of the international climate hoax, which is fantastic.” Milloy.
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If there was a goal to limit the increase in temperature to 34.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels, I would be supporting the climate change movement. The author used an on line converter for 1.5 degrees Celsius and got 34.7 degrees Fahrenheit. This over looks that 0 degrees Celsius is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. That means that the goal of 1.5 degrees C is 3.7 F.
Hilarious! The writer doesn’t seem to understand the difference between 1.5 degrees Celcius (a temperature) 1.5 Celcius degrees (an number of degrees).
The only people benefitting from organizations promoting the climate change hoax and “solutions” to imaginary problems are grifters, not those deluded by the relentless propaganda or the rest of us. I don’t support everything Trump does, but bravo for this clear-eyed move.