Tech leaders defy Trump on climate deal (bbc.com)

This isn't "defying" Trump. The tech companies weren't part of the treaty (or, as Obama called it, merely an "executive agreement" that needed no Senate ratification), they can do whatever they want. I see nothing wrong with wealthy tech companies spending their capital on whatever they see fit. If investors don't like where their money is going, they can invest somewhere else.

Fun fact: despite being one of the only countries not to join the Kyoto protocol, we met its obligations regardless - https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/05/usa-meets-kyoto-proto... - while countries virtue-signaling today, like Canada, withdrew from the Kyoto protocol because they couldn't meet its obligations.

Have to comment on this - so the fact that the owner of the largest electric car company in the world and a huge solar company really liked policies that would cripple his competition is surprising? This is not exactly principled opposition here.