Off The Editor’s Desk – 6-7-2017

Trump’s doing the right thing!

Is “Climate Change” a real item of concern in your mind? Or is it just a political football that the liberals are trying to push upon us? Ten thousand or more years ago, a deep layer of ice, covered this area that we now call home, and then it started to melt as the earth began to warm. A natural occurrence in the life of our earth and I have trouble in believing that the earth is warming to the extent that we are in danger.

And, if it is warming, is it because of the activities of mankind or something that is beyond our behavior?

But, anyway, President Donald Trump’s action to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord is the right thing to do. What I have learned about the Accord is that the United States is the only nation to get penalized by the accord, but we are required to inject large sums of money into it. I have heard several figures ranging as high as a couple of billion dollars annually. That money would then go to several countries like China and India to develop alternative energy sources like wind and solar.

I would like to tell you that China already has most of our money and their economy will surpass ours within the next year and as a nation we do not need to fund anything for China. President Obama was wrong to get us involved in that climate change thing.

If you believe in climate change, all the industrial nations need to be financially involved in its financing, not just the United States.

The population of the United States now is about 325 million people. Both China and India have at least one billion more people than we do. Obama wanted us to fund those countries. They got the people and the money. Let them lead the way!

The population of Mother Earth reached an estimated 7.5 billion on April 24, 2017 and it is estimated to house some 9.6 billion people by 2050. Most of that increase will be in those two countries, plus Africa and they need to be the ones that address climate change.

“In exiting the Paris Treaty, President Trump has made good on his campaign pledge to put America first. Obama’s bad climate deal endangered the future growth of the U. S. economy and millions of jobs that Americans need to provide for their families, and in leaving the agreement, President Trump has established his own doctrine, that the federal government’s first responsibility is to the American people, not to foreign interests. The consequence of the Paris agreement was to simply shift production, growth and jobs to emerging markets overseas when there are too many working families that are hurting here at home,” so says Robert Romano, Senior News Editor for American’s for Limited government.

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson issued the following statement: “The benefit of the Paris agreement was suspect from the start. The Copenhagen Consensus used the UN’s own model to estimate the deal would reduce warming by at most 0.3 degrees by 2100. Instead of spending hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars to barely move the needle on global temperatures in a hypothetical distant future, the world’s limited resources would be better spent providing safe drinking water, preventing malaria, and taking other measurers to alleviate human suffering in the here and now.”

Thanks for reading!     ~Carlton