President Donald Trump says he will pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. But much of his reasoning Thursday was based on questionable data. On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he would begin pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The accord, signed by all but two countries, aims to keep the world from warming by more than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, a threshold that scientists say could save the planet from the worst-case scenarios of climate change.
During a White House news conference, Trump outlined his reasons for leaving the agreement. Many of them, however, were based on questionable data. Here are some of Trump’s main arguments for exiting the pact — and what the numbers say about them.
Job losses
Trump suggested that US compliance with the Paris accord could “cost America as much as 2.7 million lost jobs by 2025, according to the National Economic Research Associates.
Tech: 5 claims Trump used to justify pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement — and the reality
