John Bolton: Trump’s Withdrawal from the Paris Accords Is an ‘Excellent Decision’

RUSH EXCERPT:
BOLTON: "I think it was an excellent decision. The Paris climate accord is a self-licking ice cream cone. It would have had next-to-no effect. The danger was in the longer term. The short term, it’s a bunch of national programs that you can — you could have devised anyway you wanted. The overall effect on climate by any scientific analysis is zero. Countries like India and China basically said, our program for reducing carbon emissions will begin in 2030. So the near term effect was remote. Why would anybody agree to something like that because of the failure of the predecessor agreements. What they wanted was an agreement on anything. To create the foundation for what they’re really interested in, which is more international control over national decision making, this is really a global governance issue, which the Europeans love, which Barack Obama loved, which Donald Trump is now rejected. There’s lots of economic arguments here about the effect of this agreement. To me, the overarching, most important, more than constitutional question was, do we govern ourselves here or are we going to seed governance authority to international organizations. That’s what’s been rejected."