Administration to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. Trump begins formal withdrawal from paris trying climate agreement. Potentially wrapping up just one day before the 2020 election. Remind us, what is the paris climate agreement . It is part of the united nate works United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse kitchens under the notion we have to do something about Climate Change. This paris accord was different than its predecessors and that each country submitted its own nationally determined contribution to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. SetObama Administration forth a plan largely based on domestic accreditation that we need to reduce Greenhouse Gas below 2005 levels by 2025. Throughout the years continuing to ratchet down emis sions. Trump camepresident into office he campaigned on withdrawing from the paris climate agreement area it is not news that we are doing this but this is a whole process that takes time. The process for withdrawal has been a threeyear process. When the Paris Agreement came had tofect each country decide if they were going to sign on. Once that occurs there was a threeyear waiting period for countries to get out of their agreement if they choose to do so. This is something trump has been saying over and over again since the election. They filed the paperwork in 2017 where they gave notification. The clock has now started. It occurred almost the day before the election. There are 100 97 countries that signed on to the Paris Agreement and the United States will be the only country to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Essentially turning us into a rogue state and a rogue actor when it comes to Global Climate conversations. Whate of the Biggest Country is the biggest emitter . Caller guest china of course. In a Historical Context the u. S. Has been the largest historical emitter of Greenhouse Gases globally. The United States has an inordinate amount of leadership we have to show both on our own domestic reductions but also on Global Leadership. Byt trump has done withdrawing us from the agreement is turning the countrys back on the world. Over three quarters of americans agree we should stay in the Paris Agreement and 60 of those are republicans. Host why did President Trump as candidate and why has the administration said, we need to be out of the climate agreement . Mostly because of cost and lack of climate benefit. The limits at imposed by the Obama Administration they would have direct impacts on families and businesses energy bills. Youre not just paying more when you electricity bill comes, because energy is such a critical component of everything we make and everything we do. Huge negative Ripple Effect throughout the economy, they pay a higher percentage of their budget on the energy bills. From a climate benefit standpoint this protocol is effectively meaningless are no real reasons that north korea, iran, venezuela and those countries are part of the climate accord. Even secretary of state john kerry when he was negotiating the climate accord said even in the developing countries if they do with they do now, what the United States does and what the rest of the developed world does is not going to make a difference in terms of averting Global Warming or Sea Level Rise. No matter what your position on Climate Change or Climate Policy , this has no meaningful benefit. Host is with the heritage foundation. Your calls are welcome. For democrats 202 7488000. For republicans 202 7488001. For independents 202 7488002. If a year from now we are out of this agreement does that really reduce its effectiveness worldwide . It does. Climate agreement could create 26 trillion in new investment and new Renewable Energy technologies. Across the globe. By the u. S. Withdrawing from that agreement we are withdrawing from the global conversation about what those investments look like for the United States and the rest of the world. That germany and china are leaders in Solar Development area they have a market that will grow because of our lack of leadership and our withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is not just about the economics are you economics. We are seeing in the u. S. And california, houston, eastern north carolina, florida. Buyers, hurricanes, floods that are the direct fingerprint of Climate Change. This is a global problem. The Paris Agreement was not perfect. It was the first global structure that was created to bring all countries together. Tweeting this about the Global Temperatures apparently we experienced the hottest october ever recorded on the planet. Against that backdrop of fire and flood our ruling class set out to sabotage the Paris Climate Accords. Class set out to sabotage the Paris Climate Accords. The absolutes of our absence from the climate agreement, what is the administrations plan on climate . There are a number of things that can be done with Government Intervention on reducing Greenhouse Gas omissions. There should be a number of policies that we can both agree on that will drive the economy and the environment in the right direction. I think it is great that the cost of renewables is coming down. Ifont think we need paris we allow companies to invest in these other countries. Have more free trade and Energy Sources and technologies. Whether that is exporting our hydraulic Fracking Technology but getting Companies Like china, india, and indonesia off of coal on to natural gas. Developing small modular reaction technologies that can provide lowcost omissions and free sources of energy. Combine that with renewables and you have a Robust Energy market that is driving energy growth, providing energy for the nearly billion people who do not have access to affordable reliable power and doing so in a cleaner fashion. To how theresponses administration has approached climate and the environment in general. Only they have been not ignoring climate but proactively trying to create eliminating regulations that protect cleanair, clean water. Their solution to Climate Change is to figure out how to subsidize coal producers and the oil and gas industry, open up public lands and let more Carbon Dioxide low. They had no plan other than to ramp up pollution as much as possible. Host 1200 scientists announced on monday that they declare what is happening worldwide with the climate as an emergent the. It is not 1200 it is 12,000 scientists. It was a global set of scientists that said we are reaching and surpassing the Tipping Point of what Climate Change will do. We are in a Climate Change emergency. Emergencyin a climate , saying that government does not have a role in finding the solutions and guiding the policies to reduce our own Greenhouse Gas omissions and help the world, that is failing to understand the problem in crisis we are in. Host how should the Trump Administration respond to this Climate Emergency . Guest part of it is understanding what we know and dont know about Climate Change. Of what that study indicated is because of Human Flourishing and because of increases in Economic Growth and airplane travel and more people having a test energy you will see an increase in Greenhouse Gas omissions. Out of all of the negative things those studies projected, this was in part driven by Climate Change, there are things that are in part driven by Climate Change and by manmade activities that will have some benefit area we should be focusing on areas where we know there will be costs and invest in more robust and resilient infrastructure that helps people adapt to a changing climate to make targeted investments that actually make an impact whether Climate Change is driven by manmade omissions or not. Talking about the u. S. Withdrawal from the paris climate agreement. We go to boston, massachusetts and joe is on our republican line. Caller my question is directed to erich. I have lived here all my life and it is always animby thing. We are always trying to bring in Renewable Energy. Every time we try to bring in hydroelectric power from candidates seems to be stopped. The transmission line through vermont and New Hampshire is always blocked. We pay some of the highest rates in this part of the country just because we cannot get clean energy from canada. We also have no nuclear which is carbon free and we cannot even build these new power plants. They run Nuclear Submarines 20 years, 40 years on that power. Why cant we do the same thing . The other thing about Global Warming and all that. I live in boston and they are always telling us about how the sea level is always right. Rising. If you live here as long as i have, you can see the expressway is sinking, umass boston is sinking. If they are measuring the height of land going down it is because we are all on phil. Phil. It is an inaccurate measurement tool. I dont believe a lot of this stuff. You say there are 12,000 scientists but unfortunately i dont believe it. Antarctica the ice is growing down there. I am not sure if that is true or not but i heard it on the news. Ich the preponderance of science on Climate Change, these are scientists around the world, 12,000 scientists that signed on to the Climate Emergency document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as part of the United Nations, it is documented that we are in the midst of Climate Change. You can look at studies that go back 20 years and you see the fingerprint of the impacts of Climate Change currently in the United States and globally. ,f you look across the u. S. Mozambique had two cyclones hated and that never happens in mozambique two cyclones hit it and that never happens in mozambique. You have a capital of one country being lifted up and moved to someplace on higher ground. We are not disputing the facts of if this is happening, it is. We see this on a daily basis. We are talking about how should the United States government intervene and help the United States and help set the standards to reduce these omissions. To our democrats line from maryland, good morning. You are on the air, go ahead. Caller i worked in fossil fuels for 35 years. Regulations, they cheated. If you worked there at night time you would see them blasting out of the stacks. In my area in maryland people got together and forced to these powerhouses to do the right thing. We have a powerhouse that we completely made it clean and the emissions are clean. It can be done but it has to be forced. If they are not forced to do it they wont do it. That is all i have to say. We can make them do it right but if you take the regulations off they wont. They will shoot it right out the stack. Ck, do Power Companies have to be forced to change over to alternative fuels or are they going there already . I would agreeest with the collar in saying that regulation is important. We all want at first impacts on human health and the environment and pollutants getting into our atmosphere. Violation of Property Rights and opposes societal harm. We need regulation to correct for those. When you talke about Carbon Dioxide which is colorless and odorless. You are seeing the market shift because the cost of renewables are coming down. When i was first working on Energy Policy coal provided 50 of our electricity. It is down nearly a quarter because of cheaper natural gas. If we had a regulatory system that allowed for new transmission lines and environmental reviews and permanent processing that allow the northeastlike would not have to lie on more expensive, dirtier home heating oil. Gas oruld have natural hydropower but they are importing it from russia which is insane. Abouton coal, you talked cheaper natural gas and the decline of the coal industry as we are seeing, is that largely due to natural gas or is it because of government regulation . K i would argue it is a combination of both. Partly driven by subsidies like the wind reduction tax credit and a solar tax credit and also probably because of regulations. Byre were some regulations the Obama Administration that exacerbated some of the economic problems that the coal industry was facing because of market barriers. I agree, i think the one thing we have to remember about the coal industry is there are a lot of workers there that are losing their jobs. This is where government can help out. We have to make sure that as the coal industry and other fossil fuel industries are eventually phased out, because that is where we have to go to address Climate Change, those communities and workers have done a Great Service to this country in providing electricity. We cannot leave them behind. We have to figure out how to help the communitys transition and the workers themselves transition into either new jobs, early retirement. We have to be forward looking at the policy. That can only be done with the federal government in mind. Seen Coal Company Bankruptcy after Coal Company Bankruptcy which has cut and run out of these communities trying to cut Health Care Pensions for the coal miners, trying to cut retirement and health care and even these leaving these communities decimated. We actually need Government Intervention in these communities to help ensure there is a managed and just position. , you had a piece earlier this week and the headline was staying in Paris Agreement would cost families 20,000. What does that figure include and is there a cost to families for not being in that. Is there an environmental or Economic Cost for not being part of that agreement. At heritage we use the same models that the department of energy uses. The National Energy modeling system. Wasntially what we did enacted taxes and regulations on the Energy Industry to achieve what the Obama Administration aimed to cheap for its nationally that is how we got those cost figures in terms of Higher Energy prices and higher prices for all goods and services we pay for. Onshrank of the economic the production side we projected in the00,000 jobs lost Energy Intensive manufacturing sectors. With regards to the environmental cost, i dont think paris was the right mechanism to change things. There were no repercussions of if countries failed to meet their targets and most countries were not on track to meet targets. Changeoes not have to mostions until 2020 and analysis say they will repeat by 2030. India submitted a target than last that was less than their business as usual standpoint. They can continue down their path and pretend like they are making progress. In terms of climate benefit from temperature mitigation to a burning Sea Level Rise, paris is toothless and meaningless. Host a picture from the New York Times earlier this week on new delhi. As Seasons Change the air in indias capital turns to poison. Wayne is on our republican line, good morning. Caller good morning. Yo