In less than a week we're back to putting Pittsburgh before Paris.
Reuters (1/8/25) article: "Global efforts to address climate change will be dealt a severe blow if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump again pulls the country out of the Paris Agreement, the EU's head of climate change policy has warned. Trump's transition team has prepared executive orders to withdraw the United States - currently the world's second-biggest polluter, after China - from the main global treaty on climate change, according to sources in the team. 'If that were to happen, that would be a serious blow for international climate diplomacy,' EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Reuters in an interview. Another U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement would require other countries to 'double down on climate diplomacy' in response, he said. 'There's no alternative to make sure that, in the end, everyone chips in, because climate change is indiscriminate,' Hoekstra said of the U.N. climate talks. 'This truly is a problem that the world needs to solve together.' The Paris Agreement is the centrepiece of United Nations climate negotiations in which nearly 200 countries discuss steps to curb emissions and funding to pay for these efforts. The U.S. has played a central role in the talks, including by working with China - the world's biggest polluter and second-biggest economy - to lay the groundwork for recent global climate deals."
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"Energy dominance is a worthwhile goal. It’s good for Americans’ pocketbooks, good for U.S. economic progress, and would advance U.S. geopolitical aims. Climate change does not pose an existential crisis, but an economically crippled, energy encumbered America makes the world less safe and American families poorer."
– H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.,
The Heartland Institute
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