Five years ago this month, negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed at a conference near Paris to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.” But President Trump withdrew the United States from the accord, despite widespread opposition from other heads of state and a sizable majority of the American people, making it the only nation to do so. President-elect Joe Biden ran on rejoining the agreement, and he says the United States will do so on his first day in office. This tortured political controversy over the Paris agreement is unique to the United States, and it can be traced in part to persistent myths surrounding it. “Believe me, we have massive legal liability if we stay in,” Trump said in 2017 when justifying his decision to withdraw from […]