US cuts carbon emissions more than foreign nations that criticize Trump environmental policies
By Justin Haskins, H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/...-policies.html
When President Trump announced his plan to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accords in June 2017, the howling cries from left-wing environmentalists could be heard across the globe.
From Canada to China and throughout Europe, the world denounced the president’s decision as reckless and in contradiction to “settled science.” Without the Paris Climate Accords, they argued, Earth would soon find itself cascading off the global warming cliff.
One year later, Earth is still here, as you may have noticed.
And the U.S. economy – due in large part to the Trump administration’s commitment to
deregulation and energy dominance – has continued to
grow at breakneck speed. On Friday the federal government announced our nation’s gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of 4.1 percent in the second quarter of this year – the highest growth rate in four years.
On top of this good news, despite the warnings of gloom and doom from President Trump’s opponents, America is now the world leader in cutting carbon dioxide emissions. Yes, you read that right.
According to a June report by BP – measuring global carbon dioxide emissions from the use of oil, gas and coal – the United States reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 41.8 million tons from 2016 to 2017,
marking the third consecutive year Americans’ carbon dioxide emissions fell.
The United States’ carbon dioxide reduction is
more than double the next closest nation included in the study, Ukraine.
And the U.S. reductions are part of a larger, decade-long trend. From 2006 to 2016, BP reports the United States slashed its carbon dioxide emissions by about 12 percent.
The recent drop in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions is the result of increased consumption of natural gas relative to other forms of energy production, renewable energy and a more efficient use of electricity.
In the wake of America’s declining carbon dioxide emissions, the dire warnings issued by global warming alarmists have proven to be yet
another example of environmentalists’ fear-mongering.
One of those alarmists was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who called President Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Accords a
“devastating failure of historic proportions.”
After world leaders from countries big and small also harshly
criticized President Trump for choosing not to make Americans beholden to the United Nations, the leaders spent the rest of 2017 presiding over countries that emitted millions of tons of additional carbon dioxide –
illustrating clearly the utter worthlessness of the Paris Accords....
...Perhaps the reason Canada, China, France, Spain and dozens of other Paris signatories
added carbon dioxide emissions – while at the same time
chastising America for working toward energy independence – is because the leaders of those countries
know what skeptics of global warming alarmism have known for decades: The world is much
better off with affordable energy than it is trying to
combat a problem many scientists say doesn’t exist.
Of course, Prime Minister Trudeau and the rest of the Paris cabal will never publicly admit it. It’s much easier to spend time in office boasting of their own virtue and lamenting the tragic individualism of the American way.