unstable drunk uncle:

Xactly along the lines of what I was thinking. Give everyone a few minutes to be upset with his decision, after that they will realize: good riddance to bad rubbish, maybe we'll let you come back when you have someone sane in charge

George Bush's climate negotiator, in the above, basically says much ado about an idiot administration no one should pay attention to, my underlining

Many energy experts say that progress will continue on greenhouse gas emissions even if the United States drops out of the Paris agreement.

“The net impact to our emissions performance is likely zero to negligible,” said Andy Karsner, former principal climate negotiator for President George W. Bush. “I don’t actually believe for a moment that a withdrawal from Paris is tantamount to abating our efforts, direction or momentum toward increased penetration of clean-energy technologies. Washington does not have the power to put the genie back in the bottle.”

Karsner, now managing partner at the Emerson Collective, compared renewable energy progress to the Pony Express. “When the Pony Express changed to air mail, then the Pony Express was done. Obsolete,” he said. “When the Pony Express gives way to email, then the Pony Express is a distant memory, a romantic relic. That’s what is happening in the world of energy technology. That has been our national aspiration for decades. We have invested in this outcome for our well-being. And we’re winning. We’re ahead in the score. And we have a president who wants to quit the game.”

Trump’s announcement coincides with signs that climate concerns are growing stronger in the financial community. A resolution instructing corporate managements to do the climate equivalent of a stress test — describing in detail the effects of government policies designed to limit global warming increase to 2 degrees Centigrade — has been adopted at Occidental Petroleum, the utility PPL and ExxonMobil over the protests of management. Major financial advisory firms Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street bucked tradition and backed the resolutions.