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Well that makes all the difference in the world!

But not a bit of difference concerning how meaningless this particular agreement is

I thought the main reason was because conventions about human rights human treaties violate American sovereignty.

The only thing he did was to not allow foreign powers to dictate how the US will spend it's money and how the US will produce energy.

I don't think that's how the Paris Accord works

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Well that makes all the difference in the world!

The difference between a treaty and a convention? Yes.

Walter Hinteler wrote:

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Well that makes all the difference in the world!

The difference between a treaty and a convention? Yes.

What is the difference between a treaty and a "convention"?

But just saying you don't because it doesn't fit your argument is silly.

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In truth, the agreement does not require any country to do anything; after the failure of the 1997 Kyoto Accord, the United Nations, which oversees climate change negotiations, decided that it simply did not have the authority to force a legally binding agreement. Instead, negotiators in Paris aimed for, and miraculously achieved, a voluntary agreement, under which more than 190 countries offered aspirational emissions targets, pledged their best efforts to meet them and agreed to give periodic updates on how they were doing.

Paris did not, in short, legally constrain Mr. Trump from doing the dumb things he wanted to do. Which he already has. In the last few months, and without consulting a single foreign leader, he has ordered rollbacks of every one of the policies on which President Barack Obama based his ambitious pledge to reduce America’s greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 — most prominently, policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants, automobiles and oil and gas wells.

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[McMaster has] got this miserable interagency process and then gets trotted out to defend the most inane and corrupting things,” said the adviser who spoke anonymously, like others in this story, to avoid reprisals from the Trump administration.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

But not a bit of difference concerning how meaningless this particular agreement is

I thought the main reason was because conventions about human rights human treaties violate American sovereignty. And, of course, CEDAW reflects radical feminist views.

A “MINI ICE AGE” IS COMING SOON SAYS MATH PROFESSOR’S SOLAR CYCLE MODEL THAT’S 97% ACCURATE

The authors of this study are from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and the cause of this ice gain isn’t entirely known, but a number of theories are mentioned in the paper. It is worth mentioning, however that NASA was blasted by dozens of their own scientists regarding their global warming stance, even though a number of the world’s top scientists have questioned just how much an impact greenhouse gases have on climate change.

This has nothing to do with human impact on climate change, but instead the activity of the sun and how solar cycles impact our climate as well. It’s based on a mathematical model that shows the sun might “quiet” down in the coming years thus impacting our climate as well. This is not a climate change denial article, please read it before commenting.

According to the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS):

"A new model of the Sun’s solar cycle is producing unprecedentedly accurate predictions of irregularities within the Sun’s 11-year heartbeat. The model draws on dynamo effects in two layers of the Sun, one close to the surface and one deep within its convection zone. Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s to conditions last seen during the ‘mini ice age’ that began in 1645."

Pretty interesting to think about it, isn’t it? With so much attention being paid to the warming of our planet, it would be quite a shocker to suddenly enter into an ice age. Again, this has nothing to due with human impact on climate change, more so the activity of the sun and how solar cycles impact our climate as well.

"A new model of the Sun’s solar cycle is producing unprecedentedly accurate predictions of irregularities within the Sun’s 11-year heartbeat. The model draws on dynamo effects in two layers of the Sun, one close to the surface and one deep within its convection zone. Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s to conditions last seen during the ‘mini ice age’ that began in 1645."