Krauthammer: Renegotiating Climate Deal Is the ‘Right Idea’

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KRAUTHAMMER: "I don't know how sincere or realistic that is but that's the right idea. I'm all in favor of an international treaty on climate and on controlling emission of CO2 but Paris wasn't that. That was one where it said the U.S. is going to export its coal industry to India and China who don't have to do anything for 20 years. The argument of the developing countries was you have a 100 year head start and were catching up so were not going to stop our development now when you're already developed. To which I would say we are not going to apologize for having invented the steam engine. We are where we are, if we are going to have controls on admissions, it's going to be equitable. You're not going to have a 20 year hiatus where the Chinese don't have to reduce anything and the Indians are going to double their emissions from coal so I think withdrawing -- I didn't like the language around it that the president said. Withdrawing from a treaty which was toothless except that it would have been used in our courts to enforce restrictions on us with a good idea."