US president ditches current agreement: ‘We’re getting out, but we’ll start to negotiate and we’ll see if we can make a deal that’s fair’
- Full story: Donald Trump confirms US will quit Paris climate deal
- Analysis: US pullout is more damaging to the US than the climate
4.52am BST
Robert Garcia, mayor of Long Beach City, has tweeted this map showing the three countries not part of the Paris agreement: the US, Syria and Nicaragua. “What a national embarrassment…”
The blue countries are all members of the #ParisAgreement – the U.S., Syria, and Nicaragua are not.
What a national embarrassment… pic.twitter.com/JBSb34q1ws
4.38am BST
According to Vox, Trump has tweeted scepticism or denialism about climate change 115 times since 2011.
They have compiled all of them in a list that, in other less impactful circumstances, might make for amusing reading (“Most of his tweets involve some kind of confusion between climate and weather”).
It snowed over 4 inches this past weekend in New York City. It is still October. So much for Global Warming.
In the 1920’s people were worried about global cooling–it never happened. Now it’s global warming. Give me a break!
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
The World Bank is tying poverty to ‘climate change’ http://t.co/wZ9ofqxJ And we wonder why international organizations are ineffective.
The problem w/ the concept of “global warming” is that the U.S. is spending a fortune on “fixing it” while China & others do nothing!
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” —Maya Angelou #ParisAgreement https://t.co/nlrmhZCDIH
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Source: Guardian Climate Change