June 2, 2017 12:26 PM
Atlanta, Possibly College Park, Will Defy Trump on Paris Accord
Using the conservative saw that local leaders know what’s better for their people than officials in D.C., this proves Trump’s decision was bad for Americans.
According to my count, 33 states and D.C. have officials that will honor the Paris Accord. Ipso facto, the majority of America knows Trump is wrong.
Reed also signed the letter from the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda that denounced Trump’s decision. College Park is listed on the group’s website as a “Partner City”.
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Great, if that is what the local community wants. Nothing to stop the mayor to go even further than the non-binding agreement [except recall, or defeat in next election, or by suit of citizens harmed].
Has the mayor decided how much new tax and how he will raise the tax to pay India’s part of the agreement that the citizens of Atlanta would owe if the Trump administration had stayed in the agreement? IF the mayor is serious – and not just playing to a future run for office – there are lots of details the city will have to implement to comply with the Paris Climate Accord. The details and the timeline of implementation will be interesting to learn.
One way to help raise the incredible cost to convert the city vehicles to alternative fuels is to start taxing/fining the airlines.
https://www.transportenvironment.org/sites/te/files/publications/Aviation%202030%20briefing.pdf
Then they have Southern Company to go after to pay for the conversion to LED.
Taxpayers could be concerned if the City was really going to fully live up to the Accord. Thank goodness It’s all bluster.
GREAT!!! Interesting link. Hopefully the mayor will lead the way by heavily taxing air travel as proposed to help developing countries to decarbonize; “4. Climate finance Implementing the Paris Agreement will depend heavily on climate finance to help decarbonise developing countries and fund their adaptation to climate change impacts. At least $100bn annually by 2020 has been promised but developed countries are struggling to even reach this interim target. Aviation is dominated by business travel and the world’s richest 5%, while its climate impacts are visited on all 100% of us – rich and poor. It is reasonable that the sector contributes to raising climate finance. Ticket taxes are possibly the simplest way to generate government revenues and predictable. The IMF has suggested that fuel taxation could raise $25bn+6. Thomas Piketty proposes a progressive levy that could reduce demand and raise €150bn7.”
Please Mr. Mayor – tell us your plan and schedule of implementing your plan to adhere to the Paris Accord. We that do not live in the city support you.
“No problem going after Barron…”
Seriously?????
No words…
http://ntknetwork.com/kathy-griffin-has-no-problem-going-after-barron-trump/
THIS will be the endlessly loop clip!
What a couple of ***ts! Thank you for guaranteeing his reelection!
You arent even close to being on topic
Thanks, Scott!!!! You the monitor now? I posted an apology.
Sorry for the incorrect posting location…
The lawyer is even worse than Griffin! Her legal career is, to quote Clayborn Darden, “Ovvvvaaaaa, it’s Ovaaaaa!” There is no defense of “going after ” an 11 year old child, attorney or no attorney!
Please, please, please, Mr. Prez, tweet a link to this!!!!!!!
Clayborn???? You just earned a life time ban to Claibourne’s charity dove shoot.
You gotta admit it sounds just like him!! He was in Bill shipp’s show all the time.
It’s pretty funny to see all the people freaking out because the guy who was going to pick up the tab has left the restaurant!
I think it’s great for local governments to pursue greening up their activities, especially large cities like the ATL which produce large concentrations of greenhouse gases. It makes a lot more sense than forcing people in sparely populated areas of the US to pay taxes to support the creation of a multi-billion dollar new international bureaucracy in Paris or elsewhere.
The US actually was never part of the so-called “Accord” — it was never voted on by the Senate as required by law. It was not a treaty; it was unilateral action by the former President. All this kerfuffle is about a bunch of flowery words by Obama on the international stage in 2015, assuming power to bind that was not his. He gave the world the impression America would pay $100 billion for creating and running the proposed bureaucracy to administer the Green Climate Fund. Toward that end, he took away $1 billion last year from the War on Terror and put it on this Fund. In addition, the Obama agreement cost us $3 trillion in lost GDP. It’s a money pit with no clear goals other than redistributing US taxes and borrowed money to other countries.
The only stated goal is 2/10 of a degree by 2100. Ridiculous. If local governments actually get to work on reducing greenhouse gases around the world, I feel sure they can make a bigger difference than that in the coming 82 years!
Also, if it were to be approved by Congress, the Paris Agreement would be effective immediately on the US and, among other things, would outlaw creation of any new coal plants in our country. But not other countries; for example, China gets to keep building for 13 more years (with no assurance they will ever stop), and India gets billions of dollars primarily from us. China alone would wipe out the US reduction of emissions, and then some.
President Trump’s action yesterday was a reassertion of US sovereignty — a sovereign nation not controlled by other countries. I listened to his full speech and he made very clear that he plans to renegotiate an international Climate Agreement that is also fair to America, its people and its economy. The French, Germans, etc. were already counting the money they’d get under Obama’s scheme, and that’s why all the crying now that they will have to deal with a REAL financial negotiator on America’s behalf. Everybody just needs to simmer down and give the man a chance.
ACP, you say po-tay-to, I say pah-tah-to. We’re never going to agree, and your comments show that you are so blinded by hatred for our president that nothing he does will ever please you. I personally don’t have time for your condescending approach, so have a nice weekend.
It might be helpful to consider that rebutting non-logical positions with logical arguments is not likely to be productive.
George Lakoff:
“First, don’t think of an elephant. Remember not to repeat false conservative claims and then rebut them with the facts. Instead, go positive. Give a positive truthful framing to undermine claims to the contrary. Use the facts to support positively-framed truth. Use repetition.”
“Second, start with values, not policies and facts and numbers.”
https://georgelakoff.com/2016/07/23/understanding-trump-2/
To the rest of The Squalling Like a Stuck Pig Freeloadung World: the momma cat just shifted “her” position throwing the sucking kittens off of the money dispensing teats. Wipe the white foam off your collective mouths and realize that THIS particular free meal is over. Ummmm…you may be excused!
It took only about a month more than his first 100 days, but Trump can add undermining NATO and Trump stepping America down as world leader to his list of accomplishments.
The GOP is for local control and state rights, except when it isn’t, so prepare for the GOP to try to impose national standards as states and cities begin to develop and implement their own standards, fragmenting the economy and increasing administration costs.
Piling on:
https://imgur.com/nDRjBCj
The two intro words are a double entendre.
Don’t you guys have a sore loser protest going on today somewhere?
We prefer to think of it as protecting the republic.
Funny, that’s what Trump be doing with every decision he makes!!! Welcome to the team!!
Remember that time Donald Trump was paid $500,000 to give a speech in Moscow?! Oh no, wait… that was BILL CLINTON.
Remember that time Trump failed to disclose Russian donors to his foundation before he served as Secretary of State? Oh no, wait. that was HILLARY CLINTON
Remember the time Trump was business partners with the Russian govt? His company received $35M from Russia… Oh no, wait, that was JOHN PODESTA
Remember the time Trump scored $145M from shareholders of a uranium company that was sold to the Russians? Oh no, wait… that was HILLARY CLINTON again.
Remember the time that President Trump gave millions of dollars, then shipped billions more on pallets full of small denomination unmarked bills to a terrorist state and sworn enemy of the United States? Oh no, that was BARACK OBAMA.
Remember when President Trump said it served justice to allow those under investigation to destroy evidence by taking a hammer to cell phones and laptop hard drives? Oh no wait, that was JAMES COMEY.
Remember that time President Trump destroyed evidence subpoenaed by Congress and the FBI? Oh no wait, that was HILLARY CLINTON.
Remember that time Donald Trump approved the sale of 20% of U.S. uranium to the Russians?! Oh no, wait… that was HILLARY CLINTON.
With such a target-rich environment elsewhere, the Russiaphobes are still pushing investigations of Trump’s campaign. Washington should spend our tax money elsewhere, especially after a year of CIA, FBI, NSA, and two Congressional investigations that found not a whiff of evidence. Even Clapper testified under oath there was no collusion, for pete’s sake.
This has all been classic shape shifting by the DNC and our former Secretary of State. They frantically spun a narrative of victimhood after both carelessly left their email system vulnerable, which resulted in tens of thousands of emails being hacked and made public. The DNC’s absurd claim that Putin targeted the party to help Trump win the election was textbook damage control.
When organizations find themselves defending against self-inflicted crises, the first move is to deflect from the facts of the story. Which airheads in the media have been more than glad to help with. You gotta hand it to the Democrats – they have now inflated this deflection from their own responsibility to a constant drum beat that is costing taxpayers millions for never-ending investigating with no there there.
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