Editors at the Washington Examiner have been watching the unhinged reaction to President Trump’s decision to remove the United States from the Paris climate agreement.
Listen closely to the cant and jargon of modern environmentalism, and in the empty invocations of “science,” you are witnessing the rites of a religious faith. If the screams after President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement seemed overwrought, it’s because Trump hadn’t merely adopted a policy the other side disagreed with; he’d committed a secular, liberal, sacrilege.
Take CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who said, “This will be the day that the United States resigned as the leader of the free world.” He then listed what he regarded as the benefits of Paris, without addressing why it had anything to do with American leadership.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Trump supports a “dirty-energy agenda” that is a “grave threat to our planet.” …
… These overheated CO2 emissions reflect sincere emotion, but have nothing to do with facts and science. They’re entirely about faith in global, intergovernmental rhetoric.
None of them acknowledged that American emissions are falling fast and will continue to do so through 2030.
