Sorry to see debate go down hill, especially around here. I was curious what others thoughts about how countries having the advantage of industrializing should pay, or whether they should pay, for the CO2 they used to become "developed". Do they owe money, or put another way, an apology, or should they presume that liability only started when (most) the planet began regarding anthropogenic CO2 accumulation as bad? Trump spent what appeared to me to be more than half his speech on this (the Green Climate Fund).
My understanding is much of the GCF's purpose is as a mechanism to fund alternatives for the undeveloped nations (like India with low electric penetration) who would otherwise be entitled to an even greater amount of CO2 emissions because of those the U.S. has already exploited. The Republicans were against this, before Trump. As the agreement is voluntary, he never would have had to fund the GCF, anyway. But it's the principal, when the largest attribution of what got the planet from ~200+PPM, to >400PPM, is considered to be the U.S. My conservative instincts say we shouldn't expect "free stuff". Maybe that's why only 22 "Reps" were looking for it when they forwarded Trump a request to pull out.
