— Mark GongloffPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order withdrawing the US from 66 different international bodies, including most notably the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, two groups that set the world’s agenda, and budget, for addressing planetary heating and its consequences. Scoff at them if you like, but this is a big and influential table at which the US will no longer sit.
Replicated under Fair Use from The White House Is Making a $7 Trillion Problem Worse by Mark Gongloff.