Reader’s links for March 28 2017

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  1. Pakistan takes dim view of Indo-US maritime pact (tribune, Mar 28, 2017)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1367312/pakistan-takes-dim-view-indo-us-maritime-pact/

    “Pakistan has voiced serious concerns over growing strategic partnership between India and the United States saying the ‘logistic exchange pact’ between the two countries has put the vision of ‘Asia’s century’ in serious jeopardy .

    “Inter-state tensions in the region and significant investments in blue water navies by countries like India have brought oceans into focus as sensitive security space,” said Lt Gen (retd) Nasser Khan Janjua, the adviser to the prime minister on national security, on Monday while speaking at a national maritime conference…”

  2. Protesters ‘BLOCK flight deporting asylum seekers’ from leaving Stansted Airport (express, Mar 29, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/785120/stansted-airport-deportations-protest-flight-africa-nigeria

    “EIGHT pro-migrant protesters are reportedly blocking the take-off of an Africa-bound flight from Stansted Airport.

    The plane, which was due to take asylum seekers to Nigeria and Ghana, has been blocked from leaving the airport after a group of protesters stormed the runway.

    All flights due to land at Stansted are now circling the airport waiting to land, or have been diverted to nearby Luton Airport, according to FlightRadar24…”

  3. BREITBART -Exxon Mobil urges Trump to stay in Paris climate accord

    Washington (AFP) – Energy giant Exxon Mobil has asked the Trump administration not to scrap US participation in the landmark Paris climate agreement, running counter to White House moves on carbon emissions.

    The news came as President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled a new executive order that could roll back some of the previous Democratic administration’s policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

    In a March 22 letter to Trump energy advisor G David Banks, Exxon’s head of environmental policy and planning, Peter Trelenberg, praised the 2015 Paris Agreement as the first to tackle emissions by both the developed world and developing countries such as China and India.

    China is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter and India could overtake the United States as the world’s second-largest by mid-century, Trelenberg said in the letter.

    The US is poised to compete in energy markets while abiding by the agreement’s calls for emissions reductions in part due to its increasing reliance on natural gas, which produces energy with fewer emissions, Trelenberg said.

    “It is prudent that the United States remain a party to Paris Agreement to ensure a level playing field so that global energy markets remain as free and competitive as possible,” wrote the executive from Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest publicly-traded energy firm.

    Fighting climate change will require technological advances, the letter said, and the United States should advance policies that promote this.

    The Trump administration has not said whether it will pull out of the Paris agreement but on Tuesday unveiled policies that could move the US away from meeting internationally agreed emissions targets.

    The Republican president said the US was ending a “war on coal,” claiming that lifting regulations on the industry would lead to new jobs.

    He ordered a review of emissions limits on coal-fired power plants and restrictions on federal leasing for coal production.

    The Trump administration is linked to Exxon Mobil through Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who served as the energy giant’s chief executive before becoming America’s top diplomat.

    Several states have sued the energy company for allegedly deceiving the public about the role of fossil fuels in global warming.

    But Tillerson himself is credited with steering ExxonMobil towards public acceptance of the science of climate change.

    http://www.breitbart.com/news/exxon-mobil-urges-trump-to-stay-in-paris-climate-accord/

    the daily caller -Exxon Urges Trump To Stay In Paris Climate Agreement

    ExxonMobil officials told President Donald Trump Tuesday that staying in the Paris climate agreement would reduce climate change and give a boost to natural gas production.

    The Paris accord, an agreement signed by President Barack Obama in 2016, is “an effective framework for addressing the risks of climate change,” the oil company wrote in a letter to the president. The deal — forged between nearly 200 countries — aims to keep so-called global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

    “It is prudent that the United States remain a party to the Paris agreement to ensure a level playing field, so that global energy markets remain as free and competitive as possible,” Peter Trelenberg, Exxon’s manager for environmental policy, wrote in the letter.

    The company’s former CEO, Rex Tillerson, indicated last week that he would support the Paris agreement if Trump can reduce some of the objectives Obama agreed to. The former real estate tycoon turned president made breaking away from the climate agreement a key component of his presidential campaign.

    Tillerson, who now serves as Trump’s secretary of state, believes staying on board with the contentious climate deal could help the country diplomatically. The former Exxon chairman is not the only person in the administration advocating the president stay in the climate agreement.

    North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer, for one, said earlier this month that he was “impressed” with White House advisers who believe the agreement is not necessarily dead on arrival. Cramer, a Republican, is one of Trump’s top energy advisers.

    The Exxon letter has emerged as Trump prepares to issue a pair of executive orders rolling back several of Obama’s climate policies, especially the so-called Clean Power Plan, which seeks to reduce greenhouse gasses by 30 percent over the next 10 years.

    Exxon has given piecemeal pro-carbon tax arguments in the past, but has recently ramped up its call for the tax, especially as pressure mounts for the company to counter environmentalist claims it is contributing to so-called man-made global warming.

    Investigations into the company’s history of supposedly hiding climate research is partially the result of a September report on Exxon conducted by InsideClimate News. The outlet’s probes found Exxon had allegedly played fast and loose with information concerning global warming.

    InsideClimate News also alleges that Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, and others joined Exxon in misleading the public about the supposed effects global warming has on sea levels.

    http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/28/exxon-urges-trump-to-stay-in-paris-climate-agreement/