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Under Trump, The US has the largest DECREASE in carbon emissions!

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Despite all the fear mongering from the media, universities and democrats, it turns out that the USA accomplished the largest DECREASE in carbon emissions! Most countries actually INCREASED their emissions, including the European countries most well known for browbeating everyone else! This happened despite the Trump admin being in power, and in spite of our withdraw from the terribly deceptive and unhelpful Paris agreement(I posted a thread with a video describing its laughably corrupt details).

https://capitalresearch.org/article/u-s-achieves-largest-decrease-in-carbon-emissionswithout-the-paris-climate-accord/
 
Despite all the fear mongering from the media, universities and democrats, it turns out that the USA accomplished the largest DECREASE in carbon emissions! Most countries actually INCREASED their emissions, including the European countries most well known for browbeating everyone else! This happened despite the Trump admin being in power, and in spite of our withdraw from the terribly deceptive and unhelpful Paris agreement(I posted a thread with a video describing its laughably corrupt details).



Got anythingthat backs up this, uh, remarkable claim?
 
Despite all the fear mongering from the media, universities and democrats, it turns out that the USA accomplished the largest DECREASE in carbon emissions! Most countries actually INCREASED their emissions, including the European countries most well known for browbeating everyone else! This happened despite the Trump admin being in power, and in spite of our withdraw from the terribly deceptive and unhelpful Paris agreement(I posted a thread with a video describing its laughably corrupt details).

https://capitalresearch.org/article/u-s-achieves-largest-decrease-in-carbon-emissionswithout-the-paris-climate-accord/

Even if true, why is that important? I thought climate change was just a Chinese hoax.

And second of all, if true, why antagonize and alienate so many of our allies, break our agreements, and weaken our word, by breaking the Paris Accord? It seems like all that did was make us lost any credibility with any future international agreements we may want to enter in.
 
Even if true, why is that important? I thought climate change was just a Chinese hoax.

And second of all, if true, why antagonize and alienate so many of our allies, break our agreements, and weaken our word, by breaking the Paris Accord? It seems like all that did was make us lost any credibility with any future international agreements we may want to enter in.

Allies? You mean fair-weathered friends who like us when they're benefitting?
And "our word"? No, it wasn't "our word". It was Obama's word which was only binding as long as he was President, since in this case, as in others, he decided his virtue-signalling legacy was all important and he bypassed the Senate to adopt the agreement with an EO.
Elections have consequences.
 
Allies? You mean fair-weathered friends who like us when they're benefitting?
And "our word"? No, it wasn't "our word". It was Obama's word which was only binding as long as he was President, since in this case, as in others, he decided his virtue-signalling legacy was all important and he bypassed the Senate to adopt the agreement with an EO.
Elections have consequences.

So any time anyone signs an agreement with us, they can expect it to be good for only the term of that president? And then they can expect us to cuss them out and rip it up, even if we end up doing everything that was in the agreement anyway?

That seems a little unnecessarily hostile. But oh well. Whatever turns you on man.
 
America doesn't make anything under Trump, it's all made in China, which is where your pollution and (jobs) has gone.
 
Allies? You mean fair-weathered friends who like us when they're benefitting?
And "our word"? No, it wasn't "our word". It was Obama's word which was only binding as long as he was President, since in this case, as in others, he decided his virtue-signalling legacy was all important and he bypassed the Senate to adopt the agreement with an EO.
Elections have consequences.

You have a valid point. It's like the Iran deal, between Obama and Iran, not the U.S. because the senate never ratified it. It's much like Nixon's agreement with then South Vietnam's president Theiu to come to the aid of South Vietnam if the North ever broke the Paris Peace Pact. It also was never ratified, the deal was good as long as Nixon was president and could enforce it. Paris Climate, Iran, since no ratification by senate also made them just presidential agreements or deals. Much like G.H.W. Bush's agreement with Gorbachev not to expand NATO any further east than Germany if Gorbachev let East and West Germany unite peacefully. That deal or agreement meant nothing after G.H.W. Bush left office. All these deals, agreements was up to future presidents to either abide by them or not. No ratification by the senate, future presidents can do as they please with these types of deals, agreements.
 
So any time anyone signs an agreement with us, they can expect it to be good for only the term of that president? And then they can expect us to cuss them out and rip it up, even if we end up doing everything that was in the agreement anyway?

That seems a little unnecessarily hostile. But oh well. Whatever turns you on man.
Really, no need for a personal snark attack. I'm simply stating FACTS. Your straw man argument leads me to believe you didn't know that Obama did this and yes, of course that means the next administration could change things. I hope you realize how our legislative branch works, as opposed to Executive Orders.
 
You have a valid point. It's like the Iran deal, between Obama and Iran, not the U.S. because the senate never ratified it. It's much like Nixon's agreement with then South Vietnam's president Theiu to come to the aid of South Vietnam if the North ever broke the Paris Peace Pact. It also was never ratified, the deal was good as long as Nixon was president and could enforce it. Paris Climate, Iran, since no ratification by senate also made them just presidential agreements or deals. Much like G.H.W. Bush's agreement with Gorbachev not to expand NATO any further east than Germany if Gorbachev let East and West Germany unite peacefully. That deal or agreement meant nothing after G.H.W. Bush left office. All these deals, agreements was up to future presidents to either abide by them or not. No ratification by the senate, future presidents can do as they please with these types of deals, agreements.

Which is why Hillary was the anointed one, because she would continue Obama's legacy and basically, his Presidency.
 
Which is why Hillary was the anointed one, because she would continue Obama's legacy and basically, his Presidency.

Hillary did campaign on being an third Obama term. There's no doubt about that.
 
First off, the OP uses a Right Wing Nut source to make a point... a source dedicated to oppose anything perceived as a Liberal cause.

Second, Chump enjoys saying he loves coal... and that because of him, coal production has increased.

Third, the article cites the replacement of coal with natural gas as the main reason Carbon Emissions dropped.

AEI reported that in 2017, U.S. carbon emissions decreased by more than 42 million tons. Despite departing from the Paris agreement, the U.S. significantly reduced its carbon footprint this year. This remarkable success can be attributed to substituting natural gas for coal. We’re upholding our end of the contract and we’re not even signees anymore!

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/capital-research-center/
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Capital_Research_Center
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/trending/teasbvm5iwmbqsrjyipwea2

Chump nominated scoundrel and anti-environmentalist Scott Pruitt to head the EPA. His lack of ethics resulted in his departure. A former Coal Lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, now heads the EPA.

Chump has very little concern for long term environmental issues.
 
Despite all the fear mongering from the media, universities and democrats, it turns out that the USA accomplished the largest DECREASE in carbon emissions! Most countries actually INCREASED their emissions, including the European countries most well known for browbeating everyone else! This happened despite the Trump admin being in power, and in spite of our withdraw from the terribly deceptive and unhelpful Paris agreement(I posted a thread with a video describing its laughably corrupt details).

https://capitalresearch.org/article/u-s-achieves-largest-decrease-in-carbon-emissionswithout-the-paris-climate-accord/

Hmmm...so, in looking at the source data on which this article is based (the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, found here: https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2018-full-report.pdf), it appears the main feature claim of the article is correct, but rather misleading.

The claim is that the U.S. posted the biggest decline in carbon emissions in 2017 of any country (and therefore, by implication, Trump is some kind of climate savior in disguise, while Obama was really a gas guzzling emissions hog in disguise). According to the BP report, the claim about emissions reduction is true--the reduction was indeed about 42 million tons. However, the total emissions output hovered, for the last decade, around 5.5 billion tons. The Obama years saw some significantly larger reductions--from 08 to 09 there was a reduction of nearly 400 million tons, and the entire period of Obama's Presidency saw a reduction of a little over 500 million tons--about 10% of total CO2 emissions. There were, to be fair, years in which emissions rose during Obama's presidency, but the overall trend was toward reduction of emissions.

In context of the total emissions produced, a reduction of 42 million tons is anemic, at best. It represents about 7/10ths of a percent reduction. Hardly anything to cheer about. Other countries, notably Mexico, outstrip us significantly in reducing their proportional emissions.

In short, this "article" is really an exercise in propaganda. It's a little like an article that once appeared in Pravda about an international car race. The headline read: The Russian Car Came in Second, while the American Car Came in Next to Last!!! The article didn't mention that there were only two cars in the race. Technically true, but very misleading. Where the rhetoric of the article sort-of directs your thinking to go is not remotely warranted by any examination of the data.
 
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