Pacific Islanders urge world to listen ahead of UN climate summit - Axios

… Pacific Islanders, whose nations face an existential threat from climate change, were a major force behind the Paris Agreement. Heading into November's UN climate summit, they are calling for greater urgency in meeting the goals of the accord, and more direct action from world leaders — especially President Biden…

https://www.axios.com/climate-change-pacific-islands-activism-un-93221bd2-c6ae-44d7-8456-e66209f1656e.html

PolitiFact | Is the Paris Climate Agreement easier on China and India than on the US?

... China emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide as the U.S., but per person, the ranking is flipped, and the U.S. emits twice as much as China. By both standards, India emits much less than either country...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/26/rick-scott/paris-climate-agreement-easier-china-and-india-us/

Trump Loyalists Aim to Block Biden’s Goal to Rejoin Iran and Paris Agreements – Mother Jones

... As Cruz describes it, by submitting the pacts to the Senate, Trump could pave the way for a vote that would fail to achieve the two-thirds needed to ratify them—thus blocking Joe Biden's efforts to bring the US back in line with international allies...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/trump-loyalists-aim-to-block-bidens-goal-to-rejoin-iran-and-paris-agreements/

Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds

Research says melting will continue even if temperature rises are limited to 2C....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/23/melting-antarctic-ice-will-raise-sea-level-by-25-metres-even-if-paris-climate-goals-are-met-study-finds

Trump exiting Paris accord will harm US economy – LSE research

Withdrawing from the Paris agreement does not make economic sense for the US, a group of economists has argued, as the cost of clean energy has fallen since the agreement was signed in 2015, while the risks of climate catastrophe have increased. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/13/trump-exiting-paris-accord-will-harm-us-economy-lse-research

The U.S. left a hole in leadership on climate. China is filling it - POLITICO

POLITICO's Global Translations podcast examines the fallout from Washington's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/15/climate-china-global-translations-1662345

Did Putin help elect Trump to restore $500 billion Exxon oil deal killed by sanctions – ThinkProgress

Follow the money: Will Trump repay Putin by ending Russian sanctions and killing the Paris climate deal?...
https://thinkprogress.org/putin-helped-trump-exxon-oil-deal-sanctions-6f169c4a4cd0/

15 ways the Trump administration has impacted the environment - National Geographic

For the past three years, National Geographic has been tracking how this administration's decisions will influence air, water, and wildlife. ....
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/15-ways-trump-administration-impacted-environment/

Trump's Misleading Paris Agreement Tweets - FactCheck.org

On Dec. 4, President Donald Trump tweeted about French President Emmanuel Macron and the Paris Agreement, misrepresenting the foreign leader's position on the climate accord. Macron has not said or suggested the Paris Agreement is "fatally flawed," as Trump implied. ....
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/12/trumps-misleading-paris-agreement-tweets/

Mark Taylor Says Hurricane Florence was Created to Destroy Evidence of Voter Fraud

Mark Taylor claims that Hurricane Florence was "made by man" and designed to flood North Carolina and destroy evidence of massive voter fraud.....
https://youtu.be/lYf89u2jfuY

China, World’s Biggest Polluter, Hits Carbon Goals—12 Years Early - The Daily Beast

The country may have hit the peak it promised in the Paris climate accord well before its 2030 timetable. But there's still more work to do. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-worlds-biggest-polluter-hits-carbon-goals12-years-early

How leaving the Paris climate deal will cost the U.S. trillions of dollars - VICE

President Trump basically made a multi-trillion dollar gamble that climate change is indeed a Chinese hoax. ....
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zm8ym8/how-leaving-the-paris-climate-deal-will-cost-the-us-trillions-of-dollars

Macron treats Congress to a full-scale takedown of Trumpism - The Washington Post: Opinion

Despite his supposed 'bromance' with Trump, the French president showed in a speech that he will not be trifled with. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/far-from-bromance-macron-denounces-all-things-trump/2018/04/25/8cc5590a-48c7-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html

'Extreme' fossil fuel investments have surged under Donald Trump, report reveals | Environment | The Guardian

Sharp rise globally in the dirtiest fossil fuel investments reverses progress made after the Paris agreement, with tar sands holdings more than doubling in Trump’s first year in office....

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/28/extreme-fossil-fuel-investments-have-surged-under-donald-trump-report-reveals

France to Trump: 'No Paris Agreement, no EU trade agreement'

French foreign minister says the US “should know what to expect” if it leaves international climate pact and seeks a trade deal with Europe....
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/02/02/france-us-no-paris-agreement-no-trade-agreement-1/

Climate change: Trump says US 'could conceivably' rejoin Paris deal -- BBC News

The US president says he has no problem with the climate agreement, just the US part of the deal. ....
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42642331

5 things to know about Trump national security strategy - CNNPolitics

President Donald Trump unveiled his administration's national security strategy on Monday, outlining the foundation and priorities that will drive US foreign policy during his time in office. He touted the plan in a campaign-style speech that spared no words in criticizing the policies of his predecessors, even if it didn't get into detail about some of his administration's concerns about Russia.

Here are five things you need to know about Trump's national security strategy.....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics/5-things-to-know-about-trumps-national-security-strategy/index.html

6 whoppers from Trump's speech -- CNN

CNN analyst John Kirby outlines the biggest untruths, exaggerations and inaccurate boasts from Donald Trump's speech unveiling his new national security strategy. ....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/opinions/trump-national-security-speech-kirby-opinion/index.html

7 Years Before Russia Hacked the Election, Someone Did the Same Thing to Climate Scientists -- Mother Jones

One Saturday morning in June, two days after the president had announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement, Michael Mann was tweeting about Donald Trump. ....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/climategate-wikileaks-russia-trump-hacking/

50 World Leaders Will Discuss Climate Change in Paris. Donald Trump Wasn't Invited -- TIME

Foreign policy experts on both sides of the aisle predicted that President Trump's decision to take the U.S. out of the world's most significant agreement to fight climate change would leave the U.S. isolated on the issue. Now they have one of their first tests of that argument. ....
http://time.com/5058736/climate-change-macron-trump-paris-conference/