It's getting harder and harder to take environmentalists seriously, isn't it? That said, climate change, especially the global warming kind, actually is caused by human activity. We need only measure the amount of hot air coming from Democrats, this time about how awful it is that the United States has withdrawn from the Paris agreement, and it becomes pretty apparent.

Not surprisingly, when the announcement was made earlier this month, the left responded in apocalyptic terms. Leftists just love this kind of doomsday silliness. Gives them something (else) to whine about. You've heard it already. Florida and California will disappear under the waves. Monster hurricanes will become the norm. Baby polar bears will all drown. The human children who don't starve to death will die from asthma. Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree that dogs and cats will start sleeping together. The sky is falling. The panic has become a caricature of anything like rational thought. Just listen, if you can stand it, to Al Gore.

But what exactly was in the accord? What horrors will be allowed now that Donald Trump has pledged to destroy Mother Earth?

Take a look: http://n.pr/2rzrGP1

The short answer is… yawn. America can still act to make our air safer to breathe and all that. In fact, we've done more than any other nation, perhaps more than all of them put together, to improve the environment. It's the socialist nations that pollute the most.

The stated goals of the Paris Climate Accord are minuscule and spread out over decades. The big one is to "pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C about pre-industrial levels," whatever that means. This is just left-wing, feel-good posturing so, naturally, the EU, the UN, and the Democratic Party love it.

The NY Times wallowed in the withdrawal decision too, calling it "disappointing (to) both environmentalists and corporate titans." Some corporations, it is true, like the deal because they think it will make them money. Electric car producers, for example (though electricity is produced by coal, so electric cars are coal-powered). On the other hand, the stock market had a nice jump on the day that our withdrawal was announced, so some corporate titans weren't all that disappointed.

The Times continued that the decision "could have severe ramification internationally (and) raise doubts about the commitment of the world's largest economy to curbing global warming and make it more difficult to hold other nations to their environmental commitments."

This is, of course, arrant nonsense. There are no "commitments." There are "aspirations" and "goals." China, India, and Russia, the planet's biggest polluters, will pay lip service to the accord and nothing more. Part of the negotiation process even involved our agreeing that China has to make no changes to its high-pollution economy until the year 2030. America, in any case, has already done more to lower greenhouse gas emissions than any other country, if only by developing our natural gas resources. We've been doing it for years and, as we've done it without the Paris agreement, one may be forgiven for asking what's so important about the thing anyway.

The new French president called our withdrawal "brutal." Another example of the hyper-hysterical reaction by the globalist left to anything associated with Donald Trump. He also firmly stated that there could be no renegotiation of the accord. But of course, there can be renegotiation. Diplomats know that anything can be negotiated any time. That's just another leftwing, sky-is-falling, scare tactic.

Global warming is nothing to get into a sweat about, so to speak. Aside from the fact that the earth's temperature has not risen now for some 20 years, even if there is a slight increase in global temperatures that would just extend growing seasons and let us grow more food.

Tearing up that silly piece of paper signed in Paris isn't a catastrophe. The sky is not falling. Climate Change and the Paris Accord