The primary intention of this scam is not environmental protection but expanding government power, reducing individual freedom, and turning the world once again to failed socialism.
There have always been prominent Republicans prepared to support, or acquiesce to, the climate scare. It is a huge problem for President Donald Trump who understands, correctly, that concerns about dangerous man-made climate change are not based on solid science.
As early as 1990, President George H. W. Bush started the National Climate Assessment, which has been a continual thorn in the side of climate realists. Two years later, Bush signed the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. The treaty set the stage for the climate alarmist stance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that led to the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.