{"id":25575,"date":"2016-11-10T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=25575"},"modified":"2016-11-11T06:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T12:50:52","slug":"climate-nonsense-oh-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2016\/climate-nonsense-oh-the-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Nonsense: Oh the pain."},"content":{"rendered":"

What Trump can\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand can’t\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddo all by himself on climate<\/a> by Paul Voosen at Science Mag:<\/p>\n

There are multiple paths Trump can take to undermining the U.S. ratification of the deal, which saw the country pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 28% below 2005 levels by 2025. Under its requirements\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalready agreed to by the United States\u00e2\u20ac\u201dTrump could not immediately withdraw from the deal, but he could do so by 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We didn’t “ratify” anything. The “country” didn’t pledge anything. Obama<\/i> as executive, took a unilateral action which is not the same as the US<\/I> ratifying anything because under our constitution, the president<\/i> does not have the power to formally bind us to this sort of stuff. All Trump needs to do is to say<\/i> this. Then if anyone disagrees, they can try to lodge a suit in courts, slog through to SCOTUS and see if they can get SCOTUS to agree that a president (i.e. Obama) can<\/I> formally bind the country to an “agreement” without ratification by the Senate using the ‘magic’ of not using the word “treaty” to describe “a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries”.<\/p>\n

The fact is: The US has not<\/I> ratified the “formal agreement between countries” called the Paris Climate Agreement. Sorry, but no. <\/p>\n

More simply, “they could just fail to deliver on U.S. commitment and reverse strong leadership at the international level that the Obama administration provided,” says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes. And this would be perfectly legitimate because the Obama administration may have wanted to provide “strong leadership at the international level” but he failed to get US agreement. And whether he wanted to use his pen to sign the document or not, the US did not ratify<\/i>. No matter what someone prefers vis-a-vi climate change, ratification of treaties by the Senate is an important constitutional principle. <\/p>\n

China has been vocal about the need for the United States to live up to its international obligations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry China: But we don’t have any. And I’m guessing you are not actually babes in the woods and knew perfectly well Obama’s signature did not mean anything. <\/p>\n

As it happens, the constitutional issue is sufficiently important that Trump should simply announce that the “agreement” would represent a treaty. That treaty has not been ratified. And so we are not bound by it. Period. I would say this for any<\/i> treaty a president tries to bind the US to in such an unconstitutional manner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Trump can\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand can’t\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddo all by himself on climate by Paul Voosen at Science Mag: There are multiple paths Trump can take to undermining the U.S. ratification of the deal, which saw the country pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 28% below 2005 levels by 2025. Under its requirements\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalready agreed to by … Continue reading Climate Nonsense: Oh the pain.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}