Category: Paris Climate Accord

The Paris Climate Accord or Paris climate agreement is intended to reduce the global temperature increase projected by the failed IPCC climate models by 1.5 to 2.0 degrees C.  The United States contribution to this imaginary temperature reduction at a cost of billions of dollars would have been 0.3 C.

None of the Paris Climate Accord is enforceable, so there is no guarantee that any of the signatories will do what they have promised.  Thus, the billions of dollars that the US would invest in this effort likely would be wasted and not used as intended.

Wikipedia describes the Paris Climate Accord in the below quoted text.

Paris climate agreement, is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 196 parties at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015.^[3][4] As of June 2017, 195 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, 151 of which have ratified it.^[1]

In the Paris Agreement, each country determines, plans and regularly reports its own contribution it should make in order to mitigate global warming.^[5] There is no mechanism to force^[6] a country to set a specific target by a specific date,^[7] but each target should go beyond previously set targets.

In 2017, President Donald J. Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement, causing widespread condemnation in China and the European Union.  (Source: Wikipedia)

President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord as he had promised, because he believed the agreement was not in US interests.

He emphasized that two of the largest so-called polluters were China and India, neither of which agreed to any reductions in their output of greenhouse gases until after 2030 at which time their output of greenhouse gases would have been decreasing naturally any way.

Also, except for India, all of the worlds largest polluters appear to have already peaked in their output of carbon dioxide in the absence of this agreement.

In addition, the US would have been disproportionately  burdened with payments to developing countries, which included China and India, to help them adapt to the use of alternative fuels.

Finally, it is extremely unlikely that carbon dioxide has more than a very minor effect on global mean temperatures.  The IPCC climate models have never been correct, and the primary reason appears to be that they do not correctly compute the feedback parameter.  The feedback that they use appears to be off by at least an order of magnitude.

In one of his final, in-your-face moves before leaving office, President Obama prepaid one billion dollars to the green fund.  This was the only advance payment made by any country to this fund.