U.S. is formally out of the Paris climate agreement

Greenpeace activists painted “No coal no Trump” on the side of a coal ship leaving Texas in 2017 after Trump said he would pull out of the Paris climate agreement. The United States is formally pulling out of the Paris climate agreement Wednesday, three years after President Donald Trump announced plans to do so.

Trump said the multinational agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change would be an economic disaster, costing as many as 2.7 million American jobs by 2025. “Looking at the cost of climate action really is only one side of the coin, and it ignores the cost of inaction,” said Jason Bordoff , director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

He said we’re seeing that cost every day in wildfires in California , hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and floods in the Midwest . “The impacts of climate change are not just on polar bears 50 years from now,” Bordoff said. “They are on all of us, and our economy, and our agriculture , and more today.” And as climate change worsens, Frances Moore, assistant professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis, said the U.S. […]

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