Obama to Avoid Senate Vote on New Climate Treaty

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Obama to Avoid Senate Vote on New Climate Treaty

 

Making the announcement first on August 26 and confirming it in his speech before a United Nations climate summit in New York City on September 23, President Obama has committed the United States to forging an international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, without Senate ratification which the Constitution requires for international treaties. Obama said he intends to have this agreement ready to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris.

 

“President Obama is determined to pursue his incredibly expensive and useless global warming agenda, Congress and public opinion be damned,” said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and the Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

 

New but Not New

 

When first broaching the plan in August, an administration spokesman admitted it was virtually certain the Senate would not ratify any new international climate change agreement, especially if it includes legally binding U.S. greenhouse gas emission reductions. Therefore, the Obama administration is shaping a “politically binding” agreement it will attempt to tack on to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.