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The world is worried as Decision Day nears.
At a April 29th rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump said he would make a "big decision" on Paris within the next two weeks and vowed to end "a broken system of global plunder at American expense."
Now the Trump administration has a meeting scheduled this Tuesday to decide whether to drop out of the Paris Agreement.
During last year's campaign Trump called the Paris climate agreement, COP21, a "bad deal" for the U.S. and promised more oil drilling and to revive the fading coal industry. He's also called climate change a "hoax."
Trump's senior strategist Steve Bannon, White House counsel Don McGahn, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are leading the climate deniers urging Trump to officially pull the United States from the accord. But, sources say, they are clashing with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and First Daughter Ivanka Trump.
\u201cThe concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1352229352
\u201cIce storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1386342836
\u201cWe should be focused on magnificently clean and healthy air and not distracted by the expensive hoax that is global warming!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1386344308
\u201cThis very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1388623196
Trump's scorched-earth approach to environmental protections has shocked current and former government officials overseas who are waiting nervously to see whether the US will destabilize the agreement by pulling out of the deal, the Guardian reports.
"If the U.S. pulls out, it will be a pariah," said Andrew Light, a climate adviser at the World Resources Institute. "It will be on the sidelines, and that's going to hurt American businesses."
\u201cThe Paris Agreement has disappeared from the Department of Energy's climate change page https://t.co/cYbNpR4SFW\u201d— Climate Central (@Climate Central) 1494121021
\u201cUrge @IvankaTrump to fight to keep the U.S. in the Paris Climate Agreement. Add your voice: https://t.co/ZD8vCu5f20\u201d— NRDC \ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udfe1 (@NRDC \ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udfe1) 1494169208
\u201cSome of the kids suing Trump over climate change have already experienced its effects firsthand @youthvgov https://t.co/wqA5WrSFns\u201d— BillMoyers.com (@BillMoyers.com) 1494112800
\u201cThe @EPA just scrubbed the #ClimateChange section of its site.\nYou can scrub websites \u2013 but you can\u2019t change reality https://t.co/BIrVx3dCIi\u201d— Climate Reality (@Climate Reality) 1494133561
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The world is worried as Decision Day nears.
At a April 29th rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump said he would make a "big decision" on Paris within the next two weeks and vowed to end "a broken system of global plunder at American expense."
Now the Trump administration has a meeting scheduled this Tuesday to decide whether to drop out of the Paris Agreement.
During last year's campaign Trump called the Paris climate agreement, COP21, a "bad deal" for the U.S. and promised more oil drilling and to revive the fading coal industry. He's also called climate change a "hoax."
Trump's senior strategist Steve Bannon, White House counsel Don McGahn, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are leading the climate deniers urging Trump to officially pull the United States from the accord. But, sources say, they are clashing with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and First Daughter Ivanka Trump.
\u201cThe concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1352229352
\u201cIce storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1386342836
\u201cWe should be focused on magnificently clean and healthy air and not distracted by the expensive hoax that is global warming!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1386344308
\u201cThis very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1388623196
Trump's scorched-earth approach to environmental protections has shocked current and former government officials overseas who are waiting nervously to see whether the US will destabilize the agreement by pulling out of the deal, the Guardian reports.
"If the U.S. pulls out, it will be a pariah," said Andrew Light, a climate adviser at the World Resources Institute. "It will be on the sidelines, and that's going to hurt American businesses."
\u201cThe Paris Agreement has disappeared from the Department of Energy's climate change page https://t.co/cYbNpR4SFW\u201d— Climate Central (@Climate Central) 1494121021
\u201cUrge @IvankaTrump to fight to keep the U.S. in the Paris Climate Agreement. Add your voice: https://t.co/ZD8vCu5f20\u201d— NRDC \ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udfe1 (@NRDC \ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udfe1) 1494169208
\u201cSome of the kids suing Trump over climate change have already experienced its effects firsthand @youthvgov https://t.co/wqA5WrSFns\u201d— BillMoyers.com (@BillMoyers.com) 1494112800
\u201cThe @EPA just scrubbed the #ClimateChange section of its site.\nYou can scrub websites \u2013 but you can\u2019t change reality https://t.co/BIrVx3dCIi\u201d— Climate Reality (@Climate Reality) 1494133561
The world is worried as Decision Day nears.
At a April 29th rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump said he would make a "big decision" on Paris within the next two weeks and vowed to end "a broken system of global plunder at American expense."
Now the Trump administration has a meeting scheduled this Tuesday to decide whether to drop out of the Paris Agreement.
During last year's campaign Trump called the Paris climate agreement, COP21, a "bad deal" for the U.S. and promised more oil drilling and to revive the fading coal industry. He's also called climate change a "hoax."
Trump's senior strategist Steve Bannon, White House counsel Don McGahn, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are leading the climate deniers urging Trump to officially pull the United States from the accord. But, sources say, they are clashing with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and First Daughter Ivanka Trump.
\u201cThe concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1352229352
\u201cIce storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1386342836
\u201cWe should be focused on magnificently clean and healthy air and not distracted by the expensive hoax that is global warming!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1386344308
\u201cThis very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1388623196
Trump's scorched-earth approach to environmental protections has shocked current and former government officials overseas who are waiting nervously to see whether the US will destabilize the agreement by pulling out of the deal, the Guardian reports.
"If the U.S. pulls out, it will be a pariah," said Andrew Light, a climate adviser at the World Resources Institute. "It will be on the sidelines, and that's going to hurt American businesses."
\u201cThe Paris Agreement has disappeared from the Department of Energy's climate change page https://t.co/cYbNpR4SFW\u201d— Climate Central (@Climate Central) 1494121021
\u201cUrge @IvankaTrump to fight to keep the U.S. in the Paris Climate Agreement. Add your voice: https://t.co/ZD8vCu5f20\u201d— NRDC \ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udfe1 (@NRDC \ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udfe1) 1494169208
\u201cSome of the kids suing Trump over climate change have already experienced its effects firsthand @youthvgov https://t.co/wqA5WrSFns\u201d— BillMoyers.com (@BillMoyers.com) 1494112800
\u201cThe @EPA just scrubbed the #ClimateChange section of its site.\nYou can scrub websites \u2013 but you can\u2019t change reality https://t.co/BIrVx3dCIi\u201d— Climate Reality (@Climate Reality) 1494133561