CLEXIT: For A Brighter Future

The United States Senate ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. Under that treaty, member nations hold annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs), at which they negotiate to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to curb global warming.

COP-21, in 2015, gave us the Paris Climate Agreement, complete implementation of which would cost the world at least $70 Trillion and probably over $140 Trillion by the end of this century—to reduce global average temperature by at most the utterly inconsequential 0.3°F.

President Barack Obama made the United States a signatory to the Paris Agreement by executive action rather than submitting it, as the Constitution says he should have done, to the Senate for ratification. (No wonder. He knew it couldn’t have passed.)

Thanks to President Donald Trump, the US will cease to be a party to the Paris Agreement on November 4—the day after our Presidential election.

But we’ll still be a party to the UNFCCC. And that’s a death sentence for American law, liberty, and prosperity.

Why? Here are just three of many reasons:

First, because the UNFCCC allows any country to sue the US if our carbon dioxide emissions enter its airspace—which has happened for over a century and cannot be prevented.

Second, because it requires new technologies developed, at huge cost, by US companies to be “shared” with other countries, without remuneration.

Third, because under it the US must submit to the judgment of nations like Iran, Russia, and China if any of them or other countries disagree with US climate and energy policy.