From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily

Today President Trump says he will announce today whether he'll withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord

What it means for the biggest contributor to climate change to abandon the most ambitious effort to solve and

What that decision could do to an international coalition that depends on a surprisingly powerful force

peer pressure

It's Thursday June 1st

Justin Gillis, thank you for coming on sure. So where are you by the way?

I am in a car

Park at the moment, but on my way into the Sierra Nevada to look at the remains for the

aftermath of one of the largest fires in California history and I presume that is related to your beat of covering the environment

It is

Climate change is causing more fires

We think on the landscape and so we've got to wrap our hands around exactly what's happening

All right, well on that note the reason we're talking to you now is to understand just how much of

The problem here is the United States when it comes to climate change? What's the answer?

The short answer is that climate change or global warming is really a problem that ought to come with a made in America sticker

If you look at the history over the whole industrial era

The United States has burned far more fossil fuels than any other country

So when you add it all up we are responsible the United States is responsible for almost a third of the excess

Carbon dioxide that's in the atmosphere and that is heating the planet if you were to take the 28 countries of the European Union and put them together

They would nearly equal us, but we basically outrank all other

Individual countries in our contribution to this problem

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