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Obama Claims the Paris Climate Agreement Is Not a Treaty. Huh?

http://cei.org/blog/obama-claims-paris-climate-agreement-not-treaty-huh

President Obama insists that the international climate agreement adopted at the COP 21 conference in Paris is not a treaty.

His reason for doing so is obvious. Under the U.S. Constitution, the United States does not become a party to a treaty until “two thirds of Senators present” vote to ratify it (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2). There was no prospect of the Senate ratifying new international climate commitments even when Democrats were in the majority. If Obama acknowledges the Paris agreement is a treaty, it dies in the Senate.

But if the Paris agreement is not a treaty, why should any U.S. citizen or policymaker pay heed to it?

Obama’s answer is that the “commitments” he made in Paris are “politically binding.”


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(Article does continue. Zim.)

I would like to point out that el-presidente obamba is NOT a dictator and can NOT

create treaties and policies out of thin air.

Zim.




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