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With regards to the Trump’s feckless withdrawal from the world community, Politifact has already fact-checked some of the Donald’s most groundless statements. Here’s some of the highlights of that report.
Fact-checking Donald Trump's statement withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement
by Jon Greenberg, Politifact,com — Thursday, June 1st, 2017
Trump: The Paris Agreement would result in "lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories and vastly diminished economic production."
— Based on flawed study.
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Trump: "China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So, we can't build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement."
— Not in the deal.
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Trump: "Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree -- think of that; this much -- Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100. Tiny, tiny amount."
— Needs context.
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Trump: "India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020. Think of it. India can double their coal production. We're supposed to get rid of ours."
India does have plans to nearly double its coal production, and the agreement does not prevent that. But the Paris Agreement does not even mention the word coal, nor does it do anything to put a global moratorium on coal.
Sounds more like standard GOP “scare-tactics” than anything fact-based.
“Scare-tactics” in more ways than one … when you consider the consequences of this unilateral self-centered action.