U.S. President Donald Trump refers to amounts of temperature change as he announces his decision that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Joshua Roberts

 

US President Donald Trump stood at a podium in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday afternoon and gave a 2,000-word speech about exiting the world’s most important climate change agreement without actually mentioning “climate change.”

Trump said the Paris Agreement is “draconian” — but it’s voluntary.
He said it won’t meaningfully slow the rise in global temperatures — but it will.
And he said it would cost the United States jobs — when the opposite is likely true.
Meanwhile, in Antarctica, a crack in the Larsen C ice shelf is growing by 11 miles just this week. The crack is only 8 miles from the edge, and it could […]

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