Death Throws of Climate Alarm?

Rejecting Climatism: Trump Withdraws from UNFCCC and 66 International Organizations

The Trump administration has issued an executive order that withdraws the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and other international bodies. The order removes the U.S. from organizations pursuing climate policies and other efforts that the administration does not consider to be in the national interest. U.S. abandonment of world climate groups may accelerate a pushback against climate policies such as net zero and so-called decarbonization.

The Trump memorandum issued on January 6 was titled “Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States.” It orders the U.S. government to end participation and funding of 66 international organizations, including the UNFCCC and 30 other U.N. organizations.

The UNFCCC, an organization and treaty that was first established in 1992 at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, has grown to include 198 nations. The UNFCCC is the U.N. organization tasked with supporting “the global response to the threat of climate change.” The withdrawal leaves the U.S. as the only nation not part of the UNFCCC.

The trump order also withdraws the U.S. from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC has been the U.N. body responsible for “assessing the science related to climate change.” The IPCC issued six assessment reports from 1990 to 2023, each asserting that humans were responsible for global warming. With the withdrawal, the U.S. will no longer participate in the IPCC or fund IPCC efforts.

Thanks to CO₂ Coalition member Steve Goreham for this analysis. Originally published in MasterResource.

Read Steve's entire commentary here.

CO₂ Coalition Statement on Trump exiting Global agreements

The United Nations climate bureaucracy has long been a source of bad science and destructive public policy. As such, we welcome President Trump’s withdrawal from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The U.N.’s most widely circulated reports on climate change are politically motivated works of propaganda presented as scientifically based findings of credible research. These documents are used to demonize carbon dioxide, a beneficial plant food, and fossil fuels, a source of reliable, affordable energy. The effect over the last 30 years has been to impede economic development, deplete national treasuries and unnecessarily add to human misery.