Bolivian President Evo Morales blasted President Donald Trump‘s announcement that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. He called the U.S. one of the world’s “main polluters” and said Trump’s decision is akin to “denying science, turning your backs on multilateralism and attempting to deny a future to upcoming generations.” This “has made […]
Scott Pruitt took to the Sunday shows today in a troubled attempt to spin the Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, amid a firestorm of international and domestic criticism. In his appearances this morning, Pruitt was hammered for admitting that he and Trump never discussed climate change, criticized for his […]
Donald Trump has done what Al Gore, Jim Hansen, climate scientists, the Sierra Club and the rest of the environmental movement could never do—make climate disruption breaking cable TV news. Trump’s histrionic, largely symbolic and recklessly self-destructive decision to abandon the Paris climate agreement means, among other things, that far more Americans know about the […]
Donald Trump announced Thursday afternoon that the U.S. will begin the process of withdrawing from the Paris agreement. During his remarks, Trump made a series of inaccurate and misleading statements about the Green Climate Fund in connection to his withdrawal decision. The United Nation’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world’s premier multilateral fund to […]
President Trump announced Thursday that he will withdrawal the United States from the Paris climate agreement. Now, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and Press Secretary Sean Spicer address the press during a White House briefing (starts at 37:09). Since Trump’s announcement, there has been tremendous backlash from world leaders, environmental organizations and business […]
The overwhelming global response to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement was essentially, “Go jump in a lake”—or as one Germany tabloid succinctly phrased it in a widely circulated headline: Very much enjoying the German press at the moment. "Earth to Trump…" pic.twitter.com/sPqkUPYVlw — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) […]
The 22 Republican senators who sent a letter to President Donald Trump last week urging the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement received more than $10 million dollars in campaign funds from fossil fuel interests. The two-page letter was signed by a number of Republican heavyweights from coal/gas/oil-rich states, including Senate Majority Leader […]
Kimberly Guilfoyle (Co-Host): I don’t think this is a deal that anybody should be crying about. Like we said, it’s non-binding, and the United States is already a clean energy, oil and gas leader. So, we can keep doing what we’re doing, we can keep reducing our emissions. Why would we in fact put ourselves […]
By Alex Kirby President Donald Trump abandoned science with his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement on climate change, saying, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris”—a wonderfully clear statement of his inability to recognize that the earth shares one atmosphere. Chris Rapley, professor of climate science at […]