{"id":363851,"date":"2025-01-29T10:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363851"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:16:02","slug":"trump-dumps-the-paris-agreement-is-it-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363851","title":{"rendered":"Trump Dumps the Paris Agreement: Is it a Big Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Tilak Doshi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the UK\u2019s Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>just hours after President Trump issued executive orders to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, Ed Miliband, the British Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, \u201cwarned\u201d Mr Trump that the rise of Net Zero is \u201cunstoppable\u201d. The tendentiousness of the Telegraph<\/em>\u2019s headline is remarkable. Just who is this mere Department Secretary to \u201cwarn\u201d the Chief Executive of the world\u2019s leading economic and military power of anything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidently, the British Secretary is deluded enough to take up the mantle of responsibility to warn President Trump of ignorance in energy affairs. But Mr Miliband has company, ranging from leading academics to senior global leaders conferring at last week\u2019s World Economic Forum in Davos. Rather than simply dismissing his antics as another sign of Mad Ed\u2019s<\/a> silly climate posturing, it behoves us to take his warning at face value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement really such a big deal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Big Deal\u2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Appearing before the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee a day after President Trump\u2019s inauguration, Mr Miliband sought to downplay the impact of America\u2019s planned withdrawal from the international climate treaty which Mr. Trump had announced on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other countries believed it was in their national self-interest to remain in the Paris Agreement and to continue working on these (climate) issues, because they saw both the advantages of moving forward on this and the dangers for them of not moving forward. So I think the transition is unstoppable, not fast enough, but unstoppable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Presumably, M. Miliband was referring to Mr Trump\u2019s previous withdrawal from the Paris agreement during his first term in office from January 2017, a move which was promptly reversed by President Joe Biden in January 2021. President Biden\u2019s administration reversed almost every energy initiative of the previous administration<\/a>. It sought to portray the first exit from the Paris agreement \u2013 and Mr Trump\u2019s first-term Presidency \u2013 as an aberration from the liberal-progressive \u2018arc of history\u2019. After all, as it was widely claimed by the Democrat establishment and its media shills, wasn\u2019t the Trump win in 2016 only made possible by Russian collusion<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, when Mr Trump first gave notice of withdrawal from the Paris agreement, a statutory delay of four years from the date of the agreement coming into force in November 2016 applied. In effect, the US was out of the agreement for only a few months before Trump\u2019s first term Presidency expired. This time around, the statutory delay is one year. Thus from 2026 onwards, at least to the end of Mr Trump\u2019s second term, the US will be not participate in any of the Paris agreement commitments including any financial obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US thus remained a party to the Paris agreement for almost the entirety of President Trump\u2019s first term, during which its administrative staff continued participating in programmes and initiatives that were pursued under the Obama Presidency. The US State Department continued to participate in the ongoing negotiations, including co-chairing with China the Enhanced Transparency Framework<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the COP29 UN annual climate summit held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the shadow of Trump\u2019s triumphant election win, Mr John Podesta<\/a> \u2013 President Biden\u2019s Climate Envoy \u2013 had no hesitation in telling governments around the world to \u201ckeep faith\u201d in their efforts to \u201ccombat global warming\u201d. He confidently asserted that the Trump Presidency could only slow, not stop, the transition from fossil fuels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For those of us dedicated to climate action, last week\u2019s outcome in the United States is obviously bitterly disappointing. \u2026 But what I want to tell you today is that while the United States federal Government, under Donald Trump, may put climate action on the back burner, the work to contain climate change is going to continue in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Gina McCarthy, President Obama\u2019s Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and later the White House Climate Adviser for President Biden, accused<\/a> the Trump administration of having \u201cabdicated its responsibility to protect the American people and our national security\u201d by leaving the Paris Agreement. Now representing an environmental NGO, Ms McCarthy assured her audience that \u201cour states, cities, businesses and local institutions stand ready to pick up the baton of US climate leadership and do all they can \u2014 despite federal complacency \u2014 to continue the shift to a clean energy economy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The belief that the global climate agenda signified by the Paris agreement is undiminished despite the re-election of Donald Trump is not restricted to US Democrat and environmental NGO activists. At last week\u2019s World Economic Forum in Davos, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The coming years will be vital well beyond Europe. All continents will have to speed up the transition towards Net Zero and deal with the growing burden of climate change. \u2026The Paris Agreement continues to be the best hope for all humanity. So Europe will stay the course and keep working with all nations that want to protect nature and stop global warming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2026But Trump\u2019s Second Shot Makes It a Big Deal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

President Trump\u2019s second term is unlikely to repeat the mistakes of his first one. He has taken a sledgehammer approach to replacing Democrat activists in Government with staff more inclined to his \u2018MAGA\u2019 vision. President Trump has long said he believes<\/a> the biggest mistake he made during his first term was hiring people disloyal to his campaign promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvard University\u2019s Robert Stavins<\/a> \u2013 a leading academic who has done decades of research and published extensively on international climate negotiations \u2013 seems to find it disappointing that \u201cTrump now seems determined to purge the upper ranks for the executive branch of anyone other than loyalists\u201d. As if an incoming President would seek to hire disloyal staff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few would disagree with White House spokesman Steven Cheung, who said<\/a> that: \u201cNo one should be surprised that those being hired should align with the mission of the administration. Nobody in private industry would ever hire someone who isn\u2019t mission focused, and the Government should be no different.\u201d Brian McCormack, Chief of Staff to National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, finds President Trump\u2019s hiring decisions similarly unexceptional<\/a>: \u201cEvery President is entitled to have a staff and the advisers that he needs to implement the goals that the American people elected him to pursue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump\u2019s detractors have suggested that despite his pulling the US out of the Paris agreement, it will matter little to the global climate agenda. The \u2018show must go on\u2019 and true believers will step in to the breach. Thus, last week\u2019s Reuters headline<\/a> about billionaire climate warrior Michael Bloomberg who \u201csteps in to help fund UN climate body after Trump withdrawal\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate alarmists Ed Miliband, Ursula von der Leyen, Gina McCarthy and Michael Bloomberg share an underlying presumption that the energy transition away from fossil fuels to the brave new world of renewable energy and \u2018clean tech\u2019 is made inevitable because \u2018markets demand it\u2019 and technological change has made it possible. In the great moral crusade to \u2018save the planet\u2019, they share the fatal conceit<\/a> that what they want is what the world needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, Trump\u2019s second term takes place in a vastly changed world from his first. The rise of populist parties<\/a> in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, France, Germany and the UK \u2013 dismissed as the \u2018far Right<\/a>\u2018 by the mainstream media \u2013 in a Europe stricken with deindustrialisation and recession<\/a> has fundamentally altered the policy presumptions that held sway just a few years ago. Ms Von der Leyen\u2019s own party, a constituent of the European Parliament\u2019s EPP which is the EU\u2019s most influential political group, is now recommending<\/a> a freeze of the CO2<\/sub> duty, abolishing renewable energy targets and reverting to pre-2019 \u2018green wave\u2019 policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Brussels is looking shaky in its anti-Trump predilections, the world of international business seems to have collapsed like a house of cards in its previous trumpeting of the ESG agenda. The ESG movement, a crucial pillar in the business sector\u2019s buy-in of the Paris agreement, has had a series of reversals recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and Climate Action 100+, which pushed ESG goals and decarbonisation of the American economy, suffered a flurry of high-profile exits by companies such as BlackRock, the world\u2019s largest asset management company. \u201cMore than 70 companies have left woke ESG organisations like NZAM and Climate Action 100+ since the Committee\u2019s investigation started,\u201d Republican Jim Jordan told the Daily Wire<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was established in April 2021 under the auspices of the United Nations and its champion Mark Carney, the \u2018rock star central banker<\/a>\u2018. It was dedicated to helping lenders reduce their carbon footprints. The group has been abandoned<\/a> in quick succession by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Morgan Stanley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ESG colossus<\/a>, which seemed to have reigned supreme in business boardrooms the world over in the past decade, has now been irretrievably compromised. The adage \u2018go woke, go broke<\/a>\u2018 was right on target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Markets and Technology Will Not<\/em> Drive the Energy Transition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

No, the markets do not drive the so-called energy transition and technological change obeys the laws of physics and economics. For instance, in the transportation sector, neither markets nor technology has made electric vehicles<\/a> affordable or popular. Within hours of being sworn into the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order meant to end policies supporting EVs. In his inauguration speech, Mr Trump said<\/a>: \u201cWe will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers. \u2026 In other words, you\u2019ll be able to buy the car of your choice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump has not only given Americans their freedom to buy cars of their choice, a very big deal in that country. He has also eased<\/a> bureaucrat-imposed efficiency standards for dishwashers, showerheads, refrigerators, laundry machines, toilets, gas cookers, incandescent lights and the like. Mr Trump, in short, has rescued the American consumer from the dead hand of an impoverishing green ideology that yields ultimate power to an efficiency technocracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These measures are part of President Trump\u2019s flurry of executive orders<\/a> which remove regulatory obstacles to the rapid development of fossil fuel resources and all associated infrastructure while seeking to prevent wind farms from being built on federal lands and waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump\u2019s executive order for the US to exit the Paris agreement is a huge deal, not least in saving the nation hundreds of millions of dollars which would have been spent on climate boondoggles such as President Biden\u2019s euphemistically termed\u00a0Inflation Reduction Act<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0vast transfers<\/a>\u00a0in climate funds pledged to developing countries. Let not the naysayers say otherwise.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Tilak K. Doshi is an economist, a member of the CO2 <\/sub>Coalition and a former contributor to <\/em>Forbes.<\/em> Follow him on <\/em>Substack<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>X<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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