{"id":195677,"date":"2022-04-13T10:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=195677"},"modified":"2022-04-13T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:19:32","slug":"exit-the-paris-climate-accord-marlo-lewis-on-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=195677","title":{"rendered":"Exit the Paris Climate Accord (Marlo Lewis on offense)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – DECEMBER 12: Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Christiana Figueres (L 2), Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon (C), Foreign Affairs Minister and President-designate of COP21 Laurent Fabius (R 2), and France’s President Francois Hollande (R) raise hands together after adoption of a historic global warming pact at the COP21 Climate Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on December 12, 2015. (Photo by Arnaud BOUISSOU\/COP21\/Anadolu Agency\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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By Robert Bradley Jr.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marlo Lewis, Jr.<\/a> is a fellow you want to meet and spend time with. A Harvard University PhD., he has long been a voice of rationality in the climate debate from his home base of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). He is all around fun and plays swing mandolin in a band, Old Town Tradition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis recently proposed<\/a> \u201cExpressing the Sense of Congress on the Paris Agreement<\/em><\/strong>\u201d for serious debate now that Net Zero is fantastical. Global-government central climate planning must stop. No target should be set for carbon dioxide for reasons that are scientifically sensible<\/a> and well articulated<\/a>. Let the market decide with methane too, a market rich in pipeline capacity and end-user growth to naturally reduce natural gas release\/flaring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis\u2019s draft for Republicans and consumer-and-taxpayer-friendly Democrats follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the Paris Agreement<\/a> is a global framework for pressuring U.S. policy makers and companies to achieve NetZero emissions by 2050;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas achieving NetZero by imposing a carbon tax\u2014the most efficient emission-reduction policy according to many economists\u2014would annually cost $4.4 trillion or 11.9 percent of GDP or $11,300 per person<\/a> by 2050, according to a recent study<\/a> in Nature<\/em>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the NetZero agenda entails geopolitical risks<\/a>, making America more dependent on Russia and OPEC for hydrocarbons and on China for the energy transition minerals used to produce advanced batteries, wind turbines, and solar panels;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas participation in the Paris Agreement makes U.S. energy policy less accountable to voters and more beholden to foreign leaders, multilateral bureaucrats, and politically unaccountable non-governmental organizations;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the Paris Agreement purports to impose legally binding reporting requirements on its parties to facilitate \u201cnaming and shaming<\/a>\u201d of U.S. policy makers who fail to pledge or implement \u201cambitious\u201d emission-reduction targets;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas U.S. leadership in producing abundant, affordable, reliable energy strengthens the economy<\/a>, reduces the cost of living<\/a>, and enhances U.S. geopolitical security<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas sensible people do not join clubs designed to pressure, cajole, and shame them into acting against their own best interests and better judgment;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the Paris Agreement requires revisiting energy-suppressing emission-reduction pledges every five years, in perpetuity, with each revision required to reflect the party\u2019s \u201chighest possible ambition;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the vast majority<\/a> of parties to the Paris Agreement submitted the agreement to their legislatures for ratification as a treaty;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution states that the President \u201cshall have power, by and with the consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas Presidents Obama and Biden enrolled the United States into the Paris Agreement without seeking the Senate\u2019s advice and consent;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the Constitution requires a higher level of consent to make treaties than to appoint Supreme Court justices, which requires only the concurrence of simple majorities in the Senate;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the Treaty Clause\u2019s supermajority requirement helps ensure U.S. treaties have broad public support rather than just the support of one party or certain sections of the country;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the Framers intended the Treaty Clause to check executive power, because \u201cinterests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern [the nation\u2019s] intercourse with the rest of the world\u201d should not be entrusted \u201cto the sole disposal\u201d of one magistrate (Federalist<\/em> 75<\/a>);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the Paris Agreement is a treaty by virtue of its costs and risks to the nation as a whole, dependence on subsequent legislation by Congress, potential impacts on state laws, past U.S. practice as to similar agreements, and other traditional factors set forth in the State Department\u2019s Circular 175 Procedure<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas President Obama purported to join Paris as an executive agreement\u2014as if the \u201cmost ambitious climate change agreement in history<\/a>\u201d were of no greater concern to the Senate than the bilateral executive agreements signed<\/a> by President George W. Bush to promote environmental education in Niger, Ethiopia, and the Republic of Congo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the Senate must independently assess whether the potential costs and risks of a particular agreement are sufficiently \u201cmomentous\u201d to warrant review under the Article II process, or else the President may evade constitutional scrutiny, as President Obama did, by unilaterally declaring a controversial agreement to be a non-treaty: Now, therefore, be it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resolved<\/em>: That it is the sense of Congress that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The Paris Agreement is a signed but non-ratified treaty, and as such creates no legal obligations for the United States.<\/li>
  2. The\u00a0NDC<\/a>\u00a0communicated by the United States to the U.N. Climate Secretariat is a Biden administration policy proposal with no official status under either U.S. or international law.<\/li>
  3. Senate leaders should schedule a debate and vote on whether President Biden should submit an instrument of ratification for the Paris Agreement to the U.N. Climate Secretariat.<\/li>
  4. If fewer than two thirds of senator’s present vote in favor of ratification, President Biden should inform the U.N. Climate Secretariat that America is not a party to the Paris Agreement, and never has been.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    The post\u00a0Exit the Paris Climate Accord (Marlo Lewis on offense)<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0Master Resource<\/a>.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    via Master Resource<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/ift.tt\/5Qf3SrD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    April 13, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By Robert Bradley Jr.\u00a0 Marlo Lewis, Jr. is a fellow you want to meet and spend time with. A Harvard University PhD., he has long been a voice of rationality in the climate debate from his home base of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). He is all around fun and plays swing mandolin in a band, Old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-OU5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":354509,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=354509","url_meta":{"origin":195677,"position":0},"title":"Natural Climate Change not on Trial","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"15\/12\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cClimate change has increasingly become an issue where parties are being held accountable because of assumed causation by human greenhouse gas emissions. 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