by Alex Newman, The New American:
As part of a broad exodus from “anti-American, wasteful, and useless” international organizations and agreements, President Donald Trump just dealt a devastating blow to the United Nations “climate” regime, as UN officials refer to it. Multiple analysts are now heralding the death of what Trump has repeatedly referred to as the global-warming “hoax.” But the UN and its allies are hitting back hard.
In a January 7 presidential memorandum addressed to heads of executive departments, Trump announced that the U.S. government would be exiting 66 international organizations. About half of those, including the UN climate bodies and agreements, are part of the UN. The decision followed a year-long review ordered by the president early in his second term.
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The entire UN climate process, including the Paris Agreement, is built on the foundation known as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The 1992 treaty, signed by President George H.W. Bush and ratified by the U.S. Senate, created a bureaucracy by the same name. And it set in motion the annual climate summits that built the multitrillion-dollar machine dubbed by the UN the “international climate regime.” That system is now in mortal danger.
In addition to withdrawing from the UNFCCC, Trump also announced that the U.S. government would exit the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The outfit, which brings together scientists from around the world, has long been criticized for its highly politicized and often inaccurate claims and predictions about alleged man-made global warming. Its assessment reports provide the “scientific” justification for the UN’s climate agenda.
“These withdrawals will end American taxpayer funding and involvement in entities that advance globalist agendas over U.S. priorities,” the White House said in a release. “Many of these bodies promote radical climate policies, global governance, and ideological programs that conflict with U.S. sovereignty and economic strength.”
End of UN “Climate Terror”?
Critics of the climate process, the UN, and the alarmism celebrated the U.S. announcement as a major victory. “President Trump may have finished off the UN climate agenda with this bold action,” explained Climate Depot editor Marc Morano, frequently attacked by alarmists as the world’s top climate skeptic. “President Trump has finally freed America from this 34-year-old UN climate terror campaign.”
Thanking Trump for tearing up the UN treaty and the broader UN “climate scam,” Morano praised the administration for unleashing what he described as a “political climate earthquake.” “This treaty has served as the underlying basis for all of the climate nonsense foisted on the U.S. these many years,” explained Morano, a regular media commentator on global-warming issues and a longtime proponent of withdrawing from the UNFCCC.
James Taylor, president of the free market-oriented, powerhouse think tank Heartland Institute, which has hosted 15 climate summits of its own, also praised the move. “President Trump displayed tremendous judgment and courage pulling America out of impoverishing and counterproductive globalist entities such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,” he said.
Taylor, whose influential organization has played a major role in debunking the UN narrative for policymakers, slammed the UN agencies, too. “These entities exist to impose leftist, top-down decision making regarding important topics while bypassing common sense and national interests,” he said of the UNFCCC and the IPCC. “America and the world itself will benefit from Trump’s decisive action.”
Secretary of State on “Why”
Commenting on Trump’s Executive Order 14199, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted multiple UN entities for a broad range of reasons. But he took aim at the UNFCCC in particular, highlighting, among other concerns, that the bureaucracy created under the UNFCCC was “squandering millions of dollars on funding for climate-alarmist, anti-energy investment in the West Bank and Gaza.”
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