"The withdrawal from the Paris Climate accord, never a treaty the US was an actual real signatory to, has CNN and the usual suspects all in a rather hilarious lather. One would think the US has its head in the sand about the future of the planet, while the rest of the world, particularly within the West is committed to saving the planet. Well. Let's take a look at actual results, instead of treaties the US didn't sign.
"The US didn't sign the Kyoto protocol, either. Which country had the largest decline in greenhouse gas emissions? The US did, while doing essentially nothing, at least so far as government goes. American power plants have been steadily switching from coal to natural gas, with emissions dropping accordingly.
"What happened within those concerned countries which signed the Kyoto and Paris accords? Emissions went up, and nowhere did they go up so consistently as Germany, which has invested billions in renewable energy, because as Germany installed solar panels and took nuclear power plants off-line after observing the Fukushima disaster, its burning of coal increased.
"Climate change treaties are, in their current form, nothing more than political posturing, the type of virtue signaling popular with people who prefer being seen doing something irrespective of being able to prove doing something actually produces results.
"This is, as is so much about the Trump administration, much ado about nothing. The Paris climate accord was so popular that President Obama didn't even bother to submit it to the US Senate for ratification, simply out of the sure knowledge that the Senate, even while controlled by Democrats, would ratify it. In fact, the Senate made it known it wouldn't even consider bringing it up for consideration of ratifying. President Obama was left with no alternative but to make a non-binding "executive decision" as a worthless gesture. President Trump is merely acknowledging that worthless gesture and removing the pretense of it being something more. Yawn, now."
-- Guy De Boer 31 May 2017
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