{"id":137882,"date":"2019-02-20T23:10:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/the-climate-be-damned-president.html"},"modified":"2019-02-20T23:10:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:10:56","slug":"the-climate-be-damned-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/the-climate-be-damned-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Climate-Be-Damned President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently even a treaty that has the support of major US businesses, GOP lawmakers, and the US Chamber of Commerce, can&#39;t get any traction in the Trump Administration because (a) it was originally proposed under his predecessor, which <i>delenda est,<\/i> and (b) it has implications in fighting climate change, which makes it utterly no-go for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you know, it&#39;s a <i>treaty,<\/i> which Trump is always convinced means a bad deal for the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/12022019\/kigali-amendment-trump-ratify-hfcs-short-lived-climate-pollutant-republican-business-support-montreal-protocol'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/XJgAN4SkSjNMcTWFGLbYGgrHvuGLfq7Ak3ra0h2KG2eR6jIzkNTypaitZcDVEpZFYuIj9-c0OXhrGm9WRI3CuAUUMCiYwPCxOBNxNaGdZOcbHRAji6ae87L7YyDyE03hW17vZAiRJ3NdkZOXryqUkCbRiCBrOu7pknSP4LJWCjwfov_BtR8JQdCW3mEs29HiOI9STzhMNtGCO6czv-YRllvwbQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/12022019\/kigali-amendment-trump-ratify-hfcs-short-lived-climate-pollutant-republican-business-support-montreal-protocol'>What&#8217;s Keeping Trump from Ratifying a Climate Treaty Even Republicans Support?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nRepublican senators and the Chamber of Commerce have urged Trump to back the Kigali Amendment on HFCs, saying it&#8217;s in the U.S.&#8217;s economic interest.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/WJ4UM5wrDPa'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently even a treaty that has the support of major US businesses, GOP lawmakers, and the US Chamber of Commerce, can&#39;t get any traction in the Trump Administration because (a) it was originally proposed under his predecessor, which delenda est, and (b) it has implications in fighting climate change, which makes it utterly no-go for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/the-climate-be-damned-president.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Climate-Be-Damned President&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135702,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/trump-drops-climate-change-national-security-threat.html","url_meta":{"origin":137882,"position":0},"title":"Trump drops climate change as a national security threat","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Dec-17 2:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Indeed, in the Administration's new National Security Strategy, it's \"an anti-growth energy agenda\" that's a threat to the world, and that only American can lead the way out of. 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