This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, June 6, 2017. I'm Caleb Brown.

President Trump's decision to end US participation in the Paris Climate Agreement is

still unclear and its impact.

It's a voluntary non-binding unratified international agreement, it's hard to see how it will

change much about climate policy.

Ryan Maui, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute Institute is not heartened by the response, which appears to be a regression to partisanship.

What is the biggest misunderstanding that people have about President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord?

Well, I'd say that there's more than one in misunderstanding, but the one that seems to be causing the most consternation amongst the media and politicians

is the economic arguments that Trump being made by the

are being made by the scientists.

In effect, the two groups are talking past each other.

They're talking from their positions of

strength and really not acknowledging each other's perspective policies

weaknesses in that respect It's perspective policies, weaknesses.

In that respect, the tribes are talking past each other.

So one example is Trump's speech at the Rose Garden Ceremony where he announced his

withdrawal from the Paris Agreement was wholly an economic speech.

It was typical of his stump speeches that he gave prior to his election.

I could have been given at any campaign stop in Iowa, Ohio, or Wisconsin.

He talked about jobs.

He talked about, you know, energy independence, growth of the economy.

And he framed the Paris Agreement as an assault or

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