Why Does Rex Tillerson Really Want America in the Paris Agreement?

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SOURCE: TOWNHALL

URL: https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisavery/2017/05/18/why-does-tillerson-really-want-america-in-the-paris-agreement-n2328639

by Dennis Avery

Why does Secretary of State Rex Tillerson want to keep the U.S. in the Paris Agreement? Is it just to push all the remaining coal out of the U.S. power system? I hate to think ill of the man. I am a dedicated Republican and my wife and I are long-time Exxon stockholders. I have great faith in the future of oil and gas. However, I also have faith in coal. Tillerson’s voice for suppressing fossil fuels is being supported, moreover, by the other Big Oil companies—who may feel a special interest in shifting U.S. power plants from coal to what is increasingly “their” shale gas.

The world has enormous supplies of coal and it has long-term value. Much of that coal is in the United States. Even better, the citizens of many developing countries, yearning urgently for First World lifestyle benefits, also have coal. There are big deposits in China, India, South Africa, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan to name a few. Unfortunately, the world’s bankers refuse to lend money for Third World coal-powered electricity because of Green opposition.

The coal-fired plants being built today are funded by loans from China. Moreover, the Chinese just built a new super-clean coal-fired power plant. Coal need no longer be “dirty.”

Nor will coal’s CO2 emissions matter much, based on the latest research. In 2016, Switzerland’s CERN laboratory fired particle beams from their giant accelerator into a super-clean cloud chamber, revealing the Earth’s cloud chemistry for the first time.


Four formerly alarmist European research centers have taken the CERN results and created a new climate model—which doesn’t show runaway warming.

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Above all else Tillerson is a globalist.  So the real question is how does restricting coal further that objective?

1.  It makes energy more expensive in America
2.  By restricting America (we are the target of the treaty) it helps to transfer wealth (business, investment) to other countries.
3.  CEOs like him aren't America first kinda people.  They have very little loyalty to this country.
4.  Does this move against coal harm competing companies who have investments in American coal?