That's what the top House Democrat is calling President Donald Trump's expected decision to pull the us from a historic climate agreement.
The president has yet to make a public decision on whether the USA will remain in the Paris Agreement, but this morning, Axios reported he had privately chose to withdraw.
In a jibe at the USA administration, Juncker told the audience at an event of the Confederation of German Employers in Berlin that "not everything that is written in worldwide agreements is fake news".
Musk said he has done all he can to advise Trump directly and via White House councils and contacts to remain in the worldwide climate agreement, and is unsure what decision the president will ultimately make.
The emissions goals are voluntary with no real consequences for countries that fail to meet them.
The agreement attempts to curb global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
"The Paris Agreement will continue with full force of implementation even if the United States pulls out", he added.
"Will have no choice but to depart [White House] councils", Musk said on Twitter when asked what he would do if Trump withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement. "It is clear that those advocating for greenhouse gas regulations will use the Paris Agreement as a legal defense again", the letter reads. After that "cooling-off period", it takes a year for a notification of withdrawal to be finalized.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Trump was working out terms of the planned withdrawal with US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, an oil industry ally and climate change doubter.
Another option, said University of California, Berkeley climate scientist Zeke Hausfather, would be for Trump to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the treaty on which the Paris accord was based, which would take only a year.
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Argument two: If you stay in the Paris agreement, you'll get sued.
In Denmark, climate minister Lars Christian Lilleholt said that "if true, this is a really, really bad signal from the United States".
Backing out of the UNFCCC would be harder for future administrations to reverse. S. will withdraw from the Paris global climate pact, according to a White House official, congressional officials and others briefed by the White House.
It's a stunning decision by the United States, the most powerful nation on the planet that's now embracing isolationism under Trump.
Everyone cautioned that no decision was final until Trump announced it.
Even major oil companies have urged the United States to stay in.
In March, he signed an executive order to roll back Obama-era policies regulating carbon emissions.
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Trump at length about the issue during a meeting in Brussels, and even at the Vatican, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin made his own pro-Paris pitch to Trump and his advisers.
Still, he said that the carbon levels agreed to by the prior administration "would be highly crippling to the USA economic growth", and said that, if the president had to choose between limiting carbon and economic growth, "growing our economy is going to win". Trump has already taken steps to reverse numerous Obama administration's rules created to cut carbon pollution.
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