Remember, remember,
The fourth of November,
Trump climate treason and plot.
I see no reason
Why Trump climate treason
Ever should be forgot.
Just before Guy Fawkes Day, November 5, 2019, the Trump Maladministration took action to try to blow up the Paris Climate Accords. This was the first day when the Accords let them start a one year process of withdrawal.
So now what? What is the scope of the disaster? What can we do, personally, locally, nationally, globally? What are we doing? A lot, it turns out. Those who have been acting, in government, business, and civil society, see no reason to stop working, and indeed are taking this as an incentive to double down on renewable energy, electric vehicles, tree planting, sustainable agriculture, decarbonizing industry, greening buildings, and all the rest.
NYT: Trump Serves Notice to Quit Paris Climate Agreement
The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations on Monday that it would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, leaving global climate diplomats to plot a way forward without the cooperation of the world’s largest economy.
The action, which came on the first day possible under the accord’s complex rules on withdrawal, begins a yearlong countdown to the United States exit and a concerted effort to preserve the Paris Agreement, under which nearly 200 nations have pledged to cut greenhouse emissions and to help poor countries cope with the worst effects of an already warming planet.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the notification on Twitter and issued a statement saying the accord would impose intolerable burdens on the American economy.