A powerful alliance of leaders representing American cities, states and business said on Saturday that they would continue to back the Paris climate accord after President Donald Trump announced earlier this year that he would withdraw the United States from the 2015 international agreement.
You may recall that if America had remained in the Paris accord, the entire global impact would have been ... wait for it!
My own peer-reviewed research, published in the journal Global Policy, shows that all of the treaty’s 2016-2030 promises on cutting carbon-dioxide emissions will reduce temperatures by the year 2100 by just 0.05°C. Even if the promised emissions cuts continued unabated throughout the century, the Paris agreement would cut global temperature increases by just 0.17°C. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reach a similar conclusion.
And that’s assuming countries actually live up to their promises: The treaty’s nonbinding.
It would be a planet-saving 0.17 degrees Celsius--if the entire world lives up to its commitments.
I eagerly await the cities, states, and businesses to reduce use of heating, cooling, and air travel to save the planet in defiance of the American government.
Now that would be "powerful."
And these preening morons pretend they are saving the planet by combining faux resistance to Trump with faux resistance to global warming.. They are worms beneath contempt (and my apologies to worms everywhere that fulfill a valuable function).
Now go and emit no more.
