Eiffel Tower, Paris. France
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A few days ago, WUWT published an article calling on President Trump to kill the Paris Agreement by submitting it to the Senate. I do not agree with this view. Aside from the risk that the matter will actually be ratified if enough RINOs fail, an act of reluctance that has taken place in the last days of the Obama administration provides cause for reconsideration.
“The planet could become ungovernable”: the climate researcher James Hansen on Obama’s environmental record, his scientific reluctance and his climate action against the federal government
By David Wallace-Wells
July 12, 2017
James Hansen is the former head of climate research at NASA, the author of the legendary early “null model” for climate change, and is now the leading scientific figure in a lawsuit against the federal government in which Hansen alleges complicity in climate change and argued his colleagues that this is a violation of the equality clause – as the costs of change will fall unevenly for future generations. *
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Sounds like a political winner.
Yes. Why can’t we make it I wrote a letter to Obama after he was elected in 2008 trying to explain this.
What happened?
I couldn’t get John Holdren to deliver the letter – he was selected as a scientific advisor. He said there was nothing he could do until confirmed. And finally, Towards the end of the Obama administration, I tried to get Obama to settle our lawsuit. Which would have made sense. In fact, the Oregon judge was confused about why Obama was fighting us. Because when Obama talked about the planet, how we sounded.
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Then, once Trump was elected, I said, now is really a time when the Obama administration should settle the case.
It would have been a sneaky way to get involved in some climate policies …
So I emailed John Podesta and surprisingly received a response almost immediately asking me to use a different email address – I had used the hacked one.
Impressive.
And he tried to help. Eventually, however Obama rejected the ideabecause his lawyers preferred his plan, his Clean Power Plan, which is being challenged in various courts.
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Read more: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/scientist-jim-hansen-the-planet-could-become-ungovernable.html
Just as Obama has shown restraint in his administration in the last few days and rejected James Hansen’s plan to tie Trump’s hands on climate policy, I think it would be wrong to prevent Biden from fulfilling his manifesto promise to restore the Paris Agreement, if Biden is sworn in as the next president.
I hate the Paris Agreement. I cheered when Trump announced that he would terminate the deal. I cheered when the US officially abandoned the Paris Agreement. I would have been happy if Trump had submitted the Paris Agreement to the Senate a few years ago to kill it once and for all.
However, submitting the Paris Agreement to the Senate at this late stage would be viewed by many as an act of political sabotage.
Two can play the game. An escalation in presidents sabotaging their successors could worsen political tensions in the US.
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