Top 5 Reasons Congress Should Reject Obama’s Climate Change Treaty

From Nicolas Loris on The Daily Signal.com (Apr. 19):

Secretary of State John Kerry will join leaders from around the world to sign the Paris Protocol global warming agreement this Friday at the United Nations headquarters.

Here are the top five reasons Congress and the next administration should withdraw from the accord:

1. Higher energy bills, fewer jobs and a weaker economy. The economic impact of domestic regulations associated with the Paris agreement will be severe.
2. No impact on climate. Regardless of one’s opinions on the degree to which climate change is occurring, regulations associated with the Paris accord will have no meaningful impact on the planet’s temperature. Even if the government closed the doors to every businesses and CO2-emitting activity in the U.S., there would be less than two-tenths of a degree Celsius reduction in global temperatures.
3. Massive taxpayer-funded wealth transfer for green initiatives. An important part of the Paris agreement for the developing world is money. More specifically, other peoples’ money. In Nov. 2014, President Barack Obama also pledged to commit $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund, an international fund for green projects in the developing world.
4. Avoids review and consent from elected officials. The Paris agreement is in form, in substance, and in the nature of its commitments a treaty and should be submitted to the Senate for review and consent. The executive branch has shown contempt for the U.S. treaty-making process and the role of Congress, particularly the Senate.
5. A top-down, government controlled push for economic transformation. To achieve their global warming goals, international leaders want to control an economic transformation. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has said that:

   This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution.

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Just like the unaffordable no-care act this stupid treaty is just another way to control the American people’s lives. Period. It’s not about helping the environment at all.