Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
Earlier this year Donald Trump received a personal letter urging him not to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
If the US pulled out, the letter said, it would lose a seat at discussions and could not make a case for “the most cost-effective greenhouse gas reduction options”.
Another voice in his ear said the US would weaken its own hand by “basically uninviting itself” from a number of negotiating tables.
Those urging Mr Trump to stick with the agreement made by Barack Obama were not long-haired greenies or earnest activists. Rather, they were the chief executives of ExxonMobil, the world’s largest listed oil company, and Royal Dutch Shell. For they see the danger of the world’s most powerful nation not being present. Trump, apparently does not.
During his election campaign, the Republican candidate dismissed climate change science as a “hoax” and suggested it had been invented by the Chinese.
Having got it in the ear last week from G7 leaders urging him to stick with […]
The smog in China and India tell us how well they are doing at saving the planet.
Steve your comment about both China and India, is simply inconsistent with the actual facts. You have to stop reading the right-wing blogs and websites you seem to favor, and start looking at actual facts for a change. Yes, China and India have terrible air quality issues in cities, and they know it. That is why they are taking such a strong position about climate change remediation.
Steve H., I think you are very wrong. China is trying very hard to combat climate change and are the top producers of solar energy products. Trump is leading us backwards; even cutting off support to some coal miners who have black lung disease, including some people in my wife’s family. Trump is an idiot, and so are his compatriots.