Apparently, it’s much easier to negotiate international treaties if you simply don’t have any idea of how diplomacy works. In between getting Mexico to build that wall and China to send all the jobs home, Donald Trump would also call a do-over on the Paris climate change agreement. Except it’s not so much a do-over, as a do-not.
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would renegotiate America’s role in the U.N. global climate accord, spelling potential doom for an agreement many view as a last chance to turn the tide on global warming. ...
"I will be looking at that very, very seriously, and at a minimum I will be renegotiating those agreements, at a minimum. And at a maximum I may do something else," the New York real estate mogul said in an interview with Reuters.
If elected, Trump would not sign on to an agreement that’s regarded as the last, best hope to address an issue threatening the environment, economy, and stability of the world. Remind us again what Donald Trump believes about climate?
Trump has said that he believes global warming is a concept that was invented by China to hurt the competitiveness of U.S. business. One of his energy policy advisers is a climate change skeptic, U.S. Congressman Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.
Those long-thinking Chinese started fabricating data decades before they even opened their economy to the west, just looking for this moment when they’d be able to get a huge advantage by ... um ... also signing onto … ah … the same agreement as us. Then all our carbons are belong to them?
That part’s not clear. What is clear is that Donald Trump is more likely to believe in fantastical conspiracy theories than he is in science. Mostly because Trump is unwilling to admit that anyone might possibly be smarter than him on any topic at any time.