Watch: Morano on Varney on Fox on Trump quitting ‘the world’s oldest climate treaty’ – ‘Our long national nightmare will have ended’
Climatedepot.com executive editor Marc Morano weighs in on President Donald Trump possibly quitting the world’s oldest climate treaty.
Fox Business Channel – Varney – Broadcast May 16, 2025
Stuart Varney: Marc Morano is the executive at Climate Depot. What happens if they withdraw from this 1992 treaty? Are we out of the climate business?
Marc Morano: Yes, and in other words, our long national nightmare will have ended.
This is the most significant thing that the Trump administration could do. Administration could do to end this climate hold that has been on America, low these 32 years ago since 1992 when George H.W. Bush, the first Bush, went to the UN’s Rio Earth Summit to appear ‘green’ in the battle against Bill Clinton and Bush lost the election anyway. But he signed onto the Rio treaty, which created all the United Nations climate summits.
Donald Trump is trying to do now is withdraw from the treaty, and then the next president will have a much harder time — needing two-thirds to get it passed back in. This is something no republican President has ever attempted. This would give permanence to Trump’s agenda.
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Stuart Varney: Don’t you need like 66 Votes or 75 votes? A huge majority to confirm a Treaty. >>
Morano: Yes.
Varney: If President Trump goes ahead and puts it to the Senate, it’s dead. >>
Morano: It’s dead, and what it does is Trump 2.0 becomes permanent. The whole idea of the electric vehicle mandates and the solar and wind mandates and net zero and Green New Deal — all of that is whisked away, and all the international pressure and all the virtue signaling and if we can put to to bed the nonsense that we need an International organization to micromanage economies and come up with goals and net zero that is somehow going to prevent hurricanes and floods. The climate never noticed what the UN did. You can look at charts from 1992 at the Rio Summit, which show that CO2 continued to go up globally. Nothing any UN climate summit has done — has resulted in anything but higher emissions. It has been a fiasco from the start.
Donald Trump has the ability to be the greatest climate president of all time by reversing this, and I think we’re on the verge of that if he can pull this off.
Varney: The GOP has proposed phasing out Biden’s clean energy tax, which will be part of President Trump’s one big bill, the Beautiful Bill. However, do you want to see any Green rules at all kept in place? Should we get rid of a whole Lot? >>
Morano: We’re talking about the Inflation Reduction Act — we should get rid of the whole lot, and they targeted funds to 80% of Republican districts. In terms of green rules, what has happened is that environmentalism has been hijacked by the climate movement. Climate has literally hijacked the entire green movement. We need to go back to the core things like clean air, clean water, and toxic waste cleanup, which is what the EPA and these environmental agencies should do. Not worried about gas stoves or worried about electric cars or washing machines, and we’re hopefully restoring the sanity to that.
The problem is that 80% of the money is going to these Republican Districts, as I said. And that makes Republicans want to protect this money. Because, what is it in the end? It’s a pork barrel spending bill — the Inflation Reduction Act — and Republicans and Democrats are equally susceptible to pork barrel spending. It’ll be a challenge to repeal this. And if it doesn’t get repealed, now I’m afraid it’s going to be the nearest thing to eternal life on earth.
Despite all the subsidies, Stuart, this is important. Solar and wind combined are less than 3% of total energy, and combined of our electricity production, they are less than 14% globally. There’s is no there there. No matter how many mandates, subsidies, no matter how many bans on solar and wind competition, it just hasn’t borne fruit yet, and we shouldn’t try to shut down modern energy on this ideological fantasy. This is a moment of permanency. We need to repeal this legislatively. We can only go so far with executive orders.
Stuart Varney: You won. You should be celebrating. Marc Morano. See you soon, Marc.