Greenies lose their minds as Trump pulls out of Paris climate deal

Greens leader Richard Di Natale rallies the troops on Insiders after Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, yesterday:

... what Donald Trump has done is he has been able to galvanise the world together in taking the action we need to take.

Trump has certainly galvanised one group ... The Weekend Australian, yesterday:

A breakaway group of Liberal MPs is urging Malcolm Turnbull to consider pulling out of the Paris climate accord after Donald Trump abandoned the agreement ...

Di Natale believes the whole wide world will unite behind him. Insiders, yesterday:

The rest of the world is committed to making the transition, to capitalising on the big opportunities, the jobs that come with it, the investment that comes with it.

The world is uniting behind the Greens? Has he been watching old re-runs of Captain Planet and The Planeteers? September 15, 1990:

We’re the planeteers / You can be one too! / ’Cause saving our planet is the thing to do ...

Di Natale on Insiders, yesterday:

I think what you are seeing around the world is world leaders step up ... you’ve got the Chinese and the Russians ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin wasn’t fussed when asked about Trump’s pullout from Paris. Putin speaking in St Petersburg, Friday:

Don’t worry, be happy.

Putin probably had advance warning. Wall Street Journal, Thursday:

The Trump White House is setting up a dedicated unit to cope with a Russia investigation that is picking up in intensity ... to reply to inquiries from investigators and reporters centring on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and any collusion by President Donald Trump’s campaign aides.

And China already gets away with murder (and big emissions) under the Paris Agreement. The Australian’s associate editor Chris Kenny in The Sunday Mail (SA), November 15, 2014:

... under this “deal” China says it will continue to increase its emissions until 2030. In other words, it has made no commitment to do anything for 16 years.

Di Natale won’t give up. Insiders, yesterday:

It’s just Donald Trump and, indeed, the Liberal and National Parties here in Australia, who are stuck in the last century.

But the Paris Accord is a dumb deal. Graham Lloyd in The Weekend Australian, Saturday:

Trump’s withdrawal has simply shown the Paris deal for what it is ... he essentially has called on China and other big greenhouse gas emitters to commit to genuine action ...

Trump is simply keeping his election promise to protect US coal workers. The US President in the Rose Garden, Thursday:

I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.

The kind of workers Di Natale mocks at home ... The Australian, November 7 last year:

Greens leader Richard Di Natale has defended a social media post that gloated over the close of Victoria’s Hazelwood power station shortly after hundreds of workers found out they would lose their jobs.