Experts are hailing President Donald Trump’s executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, which they say pushes a globalist agenda over America’s interests by mandating policies that hurt the U.S. economy and do virtually nothing to combat the earth’s warming climate, which is mostly due to natural climate shifts.

On Monday, Trump signed the executive order “Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements,” which states, “The United States Ambassador to the United Nations shall immediately submit formal written notification of the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.”

The EO was prefaced by stating that “[i]n recent years, the United States has purported to join international agreements and initiatives that do not reflect our country’s values or our contributions to the pursuit of economic and environmental objectives. Moreover, these agreements steer American taxpayer dollars to countries that do not require, or merit, financial assistance in the interests of the American people.”

Climate experts such as H. Sterling Burnett, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute, agree. “The benefits of exiting the Paris climate agreement are many, first and foremost reclaiming U.S. sovereignty while respecting the rule of law,” he told Fox News last month. “Paris encourages the U.S. to agree to emission reductions that are both unnecessary from a climate perspective, since we don’t control the climate, but which do place substantial costs on Americans while putting the nation at a competitive and geopolitical disadvantage to China, which emits more than double the U.S. with no firm reduction commitments.”

The Paris climate agreement, which was finalized in 2016 and signed by President Barack Obama, mandated that all countries who signed it must reduce their manmade greenhouse gas emissions, most of which are produced by fuels that emit carbon dioxide such as coal, oil, and natural gas. An analysis by the Heritage Foundation found that the reduction targets set by the Obama administration would cause “an annual average loss of nearly 400,000 jobs, a total income loss of more than $20,000 for a family of four, and an aggregate GDP loss of over $2.5 trillion.”

The Paris agreement was born out of a concern that rising global temperatures will be disastrous for mankind, which many scientists, backed by the legacy media, say is primarily due to manmade carbon dioxide emissions. But the theory that manmade emissions are causing a significant spike in the earth’s temperature, and that this is cause for panic, is highly contested. Hundreds of scientists have signed a declaration which notes that “[c]limate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. They do not only exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases, they also ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 [carbon dioxide] is beneficial.”

The declaration further observes, “CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. More CO2 is favorable for nature, greening our planet. Additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also profitable for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.” It goes on to state, “There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, there is ample evidence that CO2 mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.”

Notably, The Washington Post was forced to acknowledge in September that the average surface temperature of Earth is currently at its lowest level in recorded history. The graph, based on fossil evidence and “state-of-the-art climate models,” shows wild fluctuations in the world’s average temperature well before the invention of fossil fuels.

On Tuesday, author and columnist Larry Taunton, who serves as executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation, joined “Washington Watch” from the World Economic Forum, currently being held in Davos, Switzerland. He reported that President Trump’s decision to exit the Paris agreement is just one of the many ways that the 47th president is shaking up the meeting of global elites.

“Because of Trump, the globalist agenda hangs by a thread,” Taunton contended. “And that is because the United States has really been the keystone to the globalist agenda. If the U.S. falls, all other smaller boats are swamped. And we, of course, have been trending in that direction. But in November, that all took a massive swing in yet another direction. [I]n the last 24 hours, Donald Trump has … done the things that he said he was going to do. … He has taken a fierce anti-globalist position. And they see that as though he’s some sort of hayseed … who just really doesn’t understand what’s good for mankind. But the World Economic Forum really isn’t concerned with mankind. They’re all about ‘saving the planet’ and, of course, power.”