posted June 01, 2017 07:14 PM            

"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than speak and remove all doubt"

These people are a national embarrassment , capable of reducing the collective IQ of America several points.

The 10 Dumbest Reactions to Trump Quitting the Paris Climate Accord

Trump 'is committing a traitorous act of war against the American people'
Jun 1, 2017

The Paris climate accord is a largely symbolic gesture that even supporters acknowledge lacks enforcement mechanisms and, even if successful, will have a statistically insignificant impact on the climate.

Reuters reports that U.S. carbon emissions will fall over the next decade — regardless of whether America remains in COP21 treaty.

Nevertheless, the news that Trump is officially withdrawing America from the accord has brought on a level of hyperbole that is almost ... anti-science in its sheer disproportionately.

As of 6:31 PM, here are the 10 dumbest reactions to Trump's decision thus far.

10. Democratic super-donor Tom Steyer — who as an investor in many green-tech companies is anything but a disinterested party — thundered that Trump is "committing a traitorous act of war against the American people."

9. John Kerry, one of the deal's leading negotiators, said Trump is not helping the "forgotten Americans" he pledged to elevate, but instead will give their kids asthma (perhaps as soon as this summer!).

8. The ACLU, an organization ostensibly centered around civil rights, offered the bizarre claim that leaving the Paris agreement is "a massive step back for racial justice and an assault on communities of color across the U.S."

7. CNN's Fareed Zakaria upped the crazy a notch higher, told Jake Tapper "this will be the day that the United States resigned as the leader of the free world."

6. Elon Musk, who runs three companies that all depend to some degree on the idea that carbon dioxide will destroy planet Earth, said he takes America's removal from this largely symbolic agreement so seriously that he's going to make up the difference and stop crisscrossing the world in a private jet. Just kidding, he just said he is resigning his symbolic post on a symbolic presidential council.

5. Barack Obama, breaking again with the tradition of erstwhile presidents refraining from attacking their successors, channeled his inner Miss Cleo, arguing he knows what the future holds, and Trump's decision means America now "joins a handful of nations that reject the future." (Obama's prophesy, for those wondering, foretells a "low-carbon" world that showers wealth upon fellow believers.)

4. MSNBC's Donny Deutsch, apparently seeking a compelling way to express his philosophical differences with Trump, said the president "is a sociopath." Also, "very dangerous."

3. John Kerry — yes, he appears twice in this list — also released a lengthy statement on Facebook, in which he made the utterly-lacking-in-perspective take that Trump's decision "will rightly be remembered as one of the most shameful any president has made." Really? Worse than FDR locking up innocent Japanese Americans? Worse than President Adams outlawing criticism of his government, and jailing his critics? Worse than JFK's Bay of Pigs fiasco? Think before you Facebook, Mr. Kerry!

2. Serial fabricator/MSNBC anchor Brian Williams intoned that "on a sunny day in the Rose Garden," President Trump delivered a "dark speech," and then approvingly quoted an Obama official who likened Trump to Hugo Chavez.

1. Apparently of the opinion that Kathy Griffin pretending to behead Trump wasn't quite distasteful enough, an editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review, David Rowe, likened Trump leaving the Paris agreement to ... beheading the entire planet.

Editor's Note: This post will be updated as more responses come in. Stay tuned!

posted June 02, 2017 12:42 AM            

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And how about spending years pretending one thought the President was a foreigner and a fraud when one knew better?

posted June 02, 2017 09:40 PM            

The world got along before America and they'll figure it out after. Coal is a dying market and fracking is too expensive to fly.

posted June 02, 2017 11:07 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Climate change is just a money grab. The IPCC even admitted it. This has nothing to do with clean energy, saving the planet, or anything "green" other than currency.

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posted June 02, 2017 11:52 PM            

Oklahoma has been riddled with earthquakes from fracking as have many other places. Low cost to whom?

Even then it has been floundering since the price of oil dropped. And coal.. who wants it please?

posted June 03, 2017 08:43 AM            

The Loony-Tunes left gets loonier every day!

"Or honour Indian treaties or private property."

Really? What Indian treaty was violated by natural gas production? On who's private property?

"Oklahoma has been riddled with earthquakes from fracking as have many other places. Low cost to whom?"

No connection has been established between earthquakes and fracking...except in the minds of the bubble world of unreality leftist set.

"Even then it has been floundering since the price of oil dropped. And coal.. who wants it please?"

Funny, leftists screech, howl, whine and shriek over every form of energy production...except for the one which is 3 to 7 times more expensive than coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear and hydroelectric. It's about time we investigated who's paying for leftists to heat and cool their houses and fuel their cars.

"You don't need teen years in China to understand why they're ditching carbon fuels. 10 days is enough for most people. Filter masks are making a killing there. Of courseFox and Bitebarf WH News won't tell you that."

China is on line to open 2300 coal fired power plants in the next few years.