Should President Donald Trump have pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord?

PBN Staff

06/11/2017

A CHANGE HAS COME: A trailer park on Matunuck Beach Road, South Kingstown, was flooded following Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Climate scientists believe that climate change is warming the planet and will result in more frequent and more powerful storms. / PBN FILE PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

When President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord on June 1, he joined two other nations on the globe that have not signed on – Syria and Nicaragua. The move created friction with many of the nation’s long-time allies as well as roiled the domestic political scene. Many states, including Rhode Island, have said they will do their best, independent of national policy, to follow the guidelines of the climate management agreement.

The president has said in the past that he believed climate change was a hoax, although he has not said anything on the topic since pulling out of the agreement. And he says that he will now try to renegotiate the accord to make it fairer to the U.S., although many of the signatories say that the deal is not open to renegotiation.

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