Trump Expected to Pull Out of Paris Climate Agreement

Orange is not the new white either.

Give some of us some credit.

 

Is the water deep enough?

 

We jumped off cliffs countless times at Paleface Park on Travis back in the day. Usually naked. Always did it after a little snorkeling first to make sure there were no boulders shallow enough cause a problem. Always look before you leap!

 

Those cliffs didn't scare me at all once I moved there in '93. I was a regular at the Devil's Water Hole and others.

Back in HS we regularly broke in to the dive platforms at Hammerly in Houston. Olympic platforms. You best stick the landing or it hurts.

 

We had some great times at Paleface during the late '60's and the 1970's. The park was free and open, without all the concrete tables everywhere that some county commissioner's relative likely got the contract for. Bonfires, beers, and pretty much anything else you could think of. We'd drive up from Houston on weekends and party. I miss those days. I miss a more powerful Democratic Party. While I can't turn back the clock, we can do something about changing this country's direction.

 

I will say that the worst thing about the cliffs was the climb back up. Unsober.

 

Water level changes too much now. I've camped out at Pale Face my share of times and done some stupid cliff jumping. I've seen some drunken flops off the cliff and taken part in a few.

 

Climbing up a +20 foot cliff drunk is what separates the drunken boys from the drunken men. Mess up and you better be able to hit that water right.

 

I'm dead serious....

Did anyone else hit the platforms at Hammerly?

How were we the only Houston idiots that did that back in the 90's?

 

I did not hit the top platform. I was just a kid. By the time I was old enough to try it, I think I had stopped going to that pool altogether.

 

Find the one country on the list that didn't sign the Paris Climate Agreement.

 

Trump working his magic.

 

I am actually surprised that Trump would pull out. Doesn't seem like his style as he seems like the sort of fellow who would make the other side use plan B and pay for it themselves

 

Hold this L democrats.

 

Yet not a single one of the PCA proponents here on CF has gone vegan.

Politics as usual.

 

Still stuck in the logical fallacy of "If you don't do everything to help with climate change, then it is hypocritical to do anything?" Politics as usual indeed.

 

From the link:
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2. Declines in CO2 emissions in 2017 were led by the US (-0.5% and 42 million tons, see chart above). This is the ninth time in this century that the US has had the largest decline in emissions in the world. This also was the third consecutive year that emissions in the US declined, though the fall was the smallest over the last three years.
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I'd be interested to see this same data with Total CO2 emissions, Per Capita and relative to GDP

 

I'm not sure why it matters. The chart makes perfect sense, the decline matches up roughly with a recession and then economics driven switching to power generation by natural gas because fracking made it so cheap.

If you are really concerned about CO2 you should be in favor of thorium based nuclear power or perhaps just new gen nuc plants. Wind and solar aren't scalable or reliable without grid scale battery backup.

 

If true this is great.

The thing that caught my eye is "last year", isn't this likely due to everything Obama's office implemented over Trumps current moves?

 

Has Trump pulled out or is he still "occupied" - probably with a dude.