Worth noting that we can't even really leave the Accord until 2020, so there's a lot of political posturing involved here. This was all debated for years, so n

Worth noting that we can't even really leave the Accord until 2020, so there's a lot of political posturing involved here. This was all debated for years, so none of this should come as a surprise to anyone. We went into this eyes WIDE open. China got a good deal, yeah, because it had leverage: it's the manufacturing capitol of the world. It could very easily have walked away with no commitments at all. As for developing countries, of course we are going to ship our coal jobs over there - they can't afford to build renewables right now and must bootstrap with cheaper in-country energy stores like coal. Meanwhile we can afford the latter and should not be using dangerous and dirty methods just to save money. 100 billion over many years spread across dozens of countries really isn't that much. This is just another way for Trump to say we should be spending money on the US. We should, but we also have responsibilities to the rest of the world that predate all this stuff. We're part of a global community and he is trying to back out of it. I seriously suspect his numbers in that last one are off or highly misleading. We should all watch for responses from those in know.