Trump Talk vs Truth: Fact checking Donald Trump's Paris Climate Agreement speech
June 4, 2017- This week was devastating to the environment when President Donald Trump announced that he is pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord. In his speech he gave 'alternative facts' about climate science, economics and the details of the Agreement. If one good thing came out of this, it's that so many leaders, businesses and organizations have come together to support the Paris Agreement with more strength and determination that ever before. It's also inspired the first edition of Trump Talk vs Truth- a new Paws For Reaction series.
Trump Talk vs the Truth
Say goodbye to Trump-America's 'alternative facts,' or should I say 'alternative lies.' In Trump Talk vs Truth I will be debunking some of the lies Trump uses to deny climate, insight fear and divide people. The Paris Climate Accord will live on without the USA. Let's take a look at some of the false statements in President Donald Trump's Paris Agreement speech.
“This Agreement shall enter into force on the
thirtieth day after the date on which at least 55 Parties to the Convention
accounting in total for at least an estimated 55 per cent of the total global
greenhouse gas emissions have deposited their instruments of ratification,
acceptance, approval or accession,” United Nations
“The (Paris) agreement includes a commitment to
keep the rise in global temperatures "well below" 2 C compared to
pre-industrial times, while striving to limit them even more, to 1.5 degrees.
Canadian officials agreed to this lower amount earlier this week, saying they
would support a long-term goal of limiting rising average temperatures to
within 1.5 C of pre-industrial levels. Scientists consider 2 C the threshold to
limit potentially catastrophic climate change,” CBC News
"Unlike its predecessor, the Kyoto
Protocol, the Paris accord did not legally bind nations to emissions targets.
The only thing keeping a nation in check was pressure from its international
peers. Under the agreement, the United States could miss an emissions goal and
face no penalty. It could reset that goal, too, with no formal consequence," Washington Post News
““The scientific evidence of the severe environmental and human impacts from mountaintop mining is strong and irrefutable,” says lead author Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park. “Its impacts are pervasive and long lasting and there is no evidence that any mitigation practices successfully reverse the damage it causes,” Think Progress
“Thomas Stocker, former co-chair
of climate science for the IPCC, and climate and environmental physicist at the
University of Bern, Switzerland:
Trump’s decision to ignore
scientific facts of climate disruption and the high risks of climate-change
impacts is irresponsible not only towards his own people but to all people and
life on this planet. The US administration prefers old technology over innovation
and transformation. It is rejecting the enormous benefits and returns that
leadership in the next industrial revolution- decarbonization- as to offer.
The United States is the
second-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide worldwide (and has contributed, with
Europe, 52% of the share of cumulative carbon emissions since
industrialization). It is withdrawing from its historical responsibility to
reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and lead the way forward. Given the continuous
commitment of most countries to reduce emissions, and the firm leadership of
Europe, China and Russia in shaping the transformation towards a decarbonized
economy, the United States runs the risk of being left behind and missing one
of the greatest economic opportunities of our time,” Nature News (scientific journal)
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