Trump Deflates Paris: Nod to James Hansen, Rebuke to John Holdren

“Praise goes to Donald Trump. He waited, listened, and decided. American First. Consumers First. Taxpayers First. Global climate and energy planners and an intellectual elite last.”

The good news is that the Paris climate agreement, weak and aspirational to begin with, will increasingly go the way of the Kyoto Protocol. President Trump did a big favor for the US and the world by pulling out.

Progressives, weep not. Remember what the father of the climate alarm, James Hansen, said about the heralded 2015 agreement:

“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.”

– James Hansen, quoted in Oliver Milman, “James Hansen, Father of Climate Change Awareness, Calls Paris ‘A Fraud’.” The Guardian, December 12, 2015.

Conservatives and Libertarians, rejoice. Never forget what one of Paris’s architects, John Holdren, science advisor to Barack Obama, once said about the United States:

A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States … Resources and energy must be diverted from frivolous and wasteful uses in overdeveloped countries to filling the genuine needs of underdeveloped countries. This effort must be largely political.

– Ehrlich, Paul; Ehrlich, Anne; and Holdren, John. Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman Company, 1973, p. 279.

Praise goes to Donald Trump. He waited, listened, and decided. American First. Consumers First. Taxpayers First. Global climate and energy planners and an intellectual elite last.