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Many have sounded off on President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Here's a roundup of the most interesting assessments:

What was he thinking? Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images

This blogger agrees with WSJ's Spencer Jakab in that the U.S.'s exit will have less impact than people think. That said the potential effects of the move are counterintuitive. In the story published yesterday, Jakab wrote that ExxonMobil (XOM) and ConocoPhillips (COP), companies that supported the Paris accord, could get hit. Exxon fell 0.29% in pre-market trading to $80.70 and ConocoPhillips declined 0.80% to $44.50. Meanwhile U.S. greenhouse gas emission levels may not be entirely different than what they might have been if Hillary Clinton made it to the White House.