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Should the U.S. withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement?

In June 2017, President Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate accord in an effort to boost the nation’s industry and energy independence. Mr. Trump argued that the climate accord was unfair to the U.S. since the agreement imposed easier restrictions on China and India who lead the world in carbon emissions. Opponents of the climate agreement argue that it unfairly penalizes U.S. energy companies and consumers by imposing restrictions on domestic energy production. Proponents of the climate accord argue that exiting it sets back decades of diplomatic efforts by the U.S. government to reduce worldwide carbon emissions.

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Yes, until other countries are held to the same standards

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 @99DVWMS from Texas  answered…2yrs2Y

No, but everyone should be held to the same standards.

 @8DGDGGV from New York  answered…5yrs5Y

No! It is hurting the US that #45 pulled us out of the Paris Accord. The US needs to be in the Paris Accord, as it is a group of smart, caring nations who want to protect our environment. Right now glaciers are melting, there are wildfires in California, tropical storms are more frequent & are more dramatic. We need to work on this as a nation, and with other countries.

 @9FDNW6G from Illinois  answered…2yrs2Y

The problem is China, stop importing from china , until they clean up their act. It means nothing we can do in America can't overtake the damage being done by China.

 @9RXP9KX from Michigan  answered…8mos8MO

No, and countries should be held to different standards based on various factors such as population, size and total carbon emissions levels

 @994VPTC from Nebraska  answered…2yrs2Y

Δεν είμαι σιγουρος

 @8PMFKQL from Louisiana  answered…4yrs4Y

tf is that

 @9KDC6G5  from Wisconsin  answered…1yr1Y

No need to withdraw, because other countries have countries have already broken the agreement, making the agreement null and void

 @8RJTRPZ from Colorado  answered…4yrs4Y

No, but hold the other countries to the same standards.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…12mos12MO

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists

Another month, another global heat record that has left climate scientists scratching their heads and hoping this is an El Niño-related hangover rather than a symptom of worse-than-expected planetary health.Global surface temperatures in March were 0.1C higher than the previous record for the month, set in 2016, and 1.68C higher than the pre-industrial average, according to data released on Tuesday by the Copernicus Climate Change Service.This is the 10th consecutive monthly record in a warming phase that has shattered all previous records. Over the past 12 months, average global temperatures have been 1.58C above pre-industrial levels.This, at least temporarily, exceeds the 1.5C benchmark set as a target in the Paris climate agreement but that landmark deal will not be considered breached unless this trend continues on a decadal scale.The UK Met Office previously predicted the 1.5C goal could be surpassed over the period of a year and other leading climate monitoring organisations said the current levels of heating remain within the bounds anticipated by computer models.However the sharp increase in temperatures over the past year has surprised many scientists, and prompted concerns about a possible acceleration of heating.Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, one of the vice-chairs of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), noted the planet has been warming at a pace of 0.3C per decade over the past 15 years, almost double the 0.18C per decade trend since the 1970s. “Is this within the range of climate variability or signal of accelerated warming? My concern is it might be too late if we just wait to see,” she tweeted.

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Global Temperature

The conversation involves a debate on the validity of measuring 'average global temperature,' with one user criticizing its scientific basis and another defending its utility.

Climate Change Service : 2023 Was Warmest Year On Record

@QuicheAria1Y

And let's not forget that the concept of "global average temperature" is total bunk

@ThrilledS0cialJustic31Y

This doesn't show the idea is "bunk".

Some of the "objections" are also incredibly stupid. This is like claiming averages in general are "nonsense" because they don't tell you what the variance of the data is. That doesn't make the very concept of an average nonsense or bunk.

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@QuicheAria1Y

I don't have time to answer you now. I week try to get back, but it's not a concept rooted in science

 
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Climate Change

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Climate Change Service : 2023 Was Warmest Year On Record

 @9CJ6CB61Y

And yet climate change has been proven time and time again by scientists. It’s actually one of the most heavily studied scientific discoveries currently around. 98% of scientists believe in climate change too, that’s a great place to start.

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 @Patriot-#17761Y

And how can you deduce that? Are there in detail records about ancient weather cycles? Or is this returning to the very fallacious reasoning I rebuffed at the start of this debate? Even if you had tangible data about the distant past, the warming trends would "not [be] NEARLY as high" because the earth was already considerably warmer than it is now, and how do we not know the warming trends weren't this high at the start of that period of normality that came before the Little Ice Age? Do you honestly know what you're talking about, or this what CNN has told you?

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 @9CJ6CB61Y

Because we literally mapped the warming trends from those times. Look up “Mini Ice Age Climate Change Map”. The dipping effects were a minuscule amount in comparison to a massive spike over the last 200 years.

 
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The conversation revolves around a debate on the role and control of government in addressing societal issues, with a focus on accountability, political power, and the effectiveness of European policies.

Climate Change Service : 2023 Was Warmest Year On Record

 @9CJ6CB61Y

did you miss the politician part? Might I remind you that European has some of the least corrupt and happiest countries on earth. Europe’s soul is in the best shape it’s been in centuries because of this kind of policy

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 @Patriot-#17761Y

Yeah, unless you count the police state locking up teachers in Ireland and Britain for refusing to use their students fake "pronouns," a dropping standard of living, sky-high prices, the threat of continental war, inflation that's often worse than our own, the collapse of the nuclear family, and the recent destruction of the British Empire, they're practically living in Heaven.

 
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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…3mos3MO

Supreme Court Clears The Way For Trump Sentencing

Donald Trump will face sentencing over his New York “hush money” conviction on Friday, after the US Supreme Court declined to grant him a last-minute reprieve.The decision will force the president-elect to face public proceedings in the criminal case that he has fought strenuously to avoid. His lawyers had appealed to the high court on Wednesday to postpone the proceeding, claiming that allowing it to go ahead days before his inauguration would create a “constitutionally intolerable risk of disruption to national security” and interfere with his efforts to get his 34 felony convictions overturned.In a 5-4 decision handed down just hours before the sentencing was set to go ahead in a state court in lower Manhattan, a majority of the justices declined to do so, saying “the burden that sentencing will impose on the president-elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial” especially as Trump was unlikely to face any prison time. They added that any issues with the evidence presented at trial — some of which Trump’s lawyers have claimed was inadmissible — “can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal”.Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberals on the bench in refusing to grant Trump’s appeal.Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he appreciated the Supreme Court’s time but vowed to continue fighting the case. “For the sake and sanctity of the Presidency, I will be appealing this case, and am confident that JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL,” he said.Lawyers representing Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Trump’s sentencing was repeatedly postponed while he mounted his third campaign for the White House and pursued various appeals against his conviction. Last week Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the “hush money” trial in New York earlier this year, finally set a firm date, in order to bring what he called “finality to this matter”.Trump will probably not face any punishment when he is sentenced, however, as the judge previously indicated he would not impose a fine or condemn Trump to prison time.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Starmer Throws Netanyahu Under the ICC Bus: UK Backs Arrest Warrant for Israeli PM

Sir Keir Starmer has backed the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.When asked about the issue, Sir Keir’s official spokesman said the Government respected the independence of the court.He declined to say whether Mr Netanyahu would be arrested if he arrived in the UK.The spokesman said: “We respect the independence of the ICC, which is the primary institutional institution for investigating and prosecuting the most serious crimes in relation to international law.“This Government has been clear that Israel has a right to defend itself in accordance with international law. There is no moral equivalence between Israel, a democracy and Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah, which are terror groups.“We remain focused on pushing for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the devastating violence in Gaza.”Under the Conservatives, the British government had told the court it intended to challenge the plans for the arrest warrants.However, weeks after coming to power, Sir Keir’s government reversed that position and said it would not object.Downing Street also declined to say whether Mr Netanyahu would be welcome to visit Britain in the future.Sir Keir’s spokesman said: “We never comment on future international visits but my position on the Prime Minister’s support for Israel in terms of its right to defend itself in accordance with international law is very clear.”The spokesman repeatedly declined to “go into hypotheticals” about whether Mr Netanyahu would be arrested if he arrived in the UK.He added: “It’s not up to the Prime Minister to determine other world leaders’ travel schedules. He engages and will continue to engage with the prime minister of Israel in support of Israel’s right to defend itself.”Pressed on what he meant by his comments about the court, the spokesman said: “It means that we respect the independence of the ICC. We respect the fact that the ICC is the primary international institution for investigating and prosecuting the most serious crimes of international concern.”The spokesman went on to say the Government’s “focus” remained an end to the violence in the Middle East, which has been ongoing for more than a year after the Oct 7 terror attacks by Hamas.

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