pacino wrote:woody, i'm sure whoever is in charge of the EPA come January 2017 will take this shit seriously. we will come together as a country and we will make sure we stick to our agreements with the rest of the world and that they stick to theirs.
OK, now that I have that out of my system... The EU might enact a carbon tax on the US if we pull out of the Paris Agreement.
a source to Reuters says he may try to scrap it all:The source said the future Trump administration is weighing alternatives to accelerate the pull-out: sending a letter withdrawing from the 1992 international framework accord that is the parent treaty of the Paris Agreement; voiding U.S. involvement in both in a year's time; or issuing a presidential order simply deleting the U.S. signature from the Paris accord.
Withdrawing from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) would be controversial, partly because it was signed by former Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and approved by the U.S. Senate. The action also could antagonize many other countries. [L8N1DB41L]
The UNFCCC sets a goal of avoiding "dangerous" man-made damage to the climate to avert more heat waves, downpours, floods, extinctions of animals and plants and rising sea levels.
The 2015 Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
You know what country would most likely benefit the most from severe climate change?
Russia
