Conservatives want more permanent exit from Paris climate accord

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Conservatives want more permanent exit from Paris climate accord
 
By James Varney - The Washington Times - Sunday, January 20, 2019

President Trump has announced the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord negotiated by President Obama, but some activists say Republicans should do more and truly put the spike into it.

They fear that if Mr. Trump was able to withdraw based on his signature, a future president could easily rejoin with another signature. Their solution: have the Senate take a vote to ratify the deal as a treaty, and defeat it.

“The Paris climate treaty is clearly a treaty and not just an executive agreement according to the State Department’s own criteria,” said Myron Ebell, the director of global warming and environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “Every other country in the world treated it as a treaty and ratified it according to their usual ratification procedures.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/20/conservatives-want-more-permanent-exit-from-paris-/

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A formalized exit is not necessary for something that was never ratified.