Four numbers that will impact Trump on Paris climate accord

It seems like a fool's errand to try to predict when exactly President Trump will make a decision, but momentum seems to be building toward a call on whether the United States will stay in the Paris climate accord. Trump knows that his predecessor's landmark deal will be a prime topic of conversation at this weekend's G-7 summit.

But with typical reality-show panache, Trump is keeping the content of his deliberations -- whether to stay or leave -- close to his chest. 

"He's interested to hear what the G-7 leaders have to say  about climate," Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, told pool reporters on the president's overseas trip. He added: "He's heard arguments that are persuasive on both sides. They're both good arguments."

But contestants (i.e. other countries) have not been standing on the sidelines in this key debate, calculating that a decision may be imminent and that Trump often appears to be swayed by the last person with whom he spoke.

Here are four numbers that could make a difference in whether the president decides to stay in the Paris climate accord:

SIX: That's the number of other major economic powers -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom -- in attendance at the G-7 summit.

What are they saying to Trump? "I am very concerned that a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement would cause lasting damage to the long-standing mutual trust and close cooperation between our two countries and between the U.S. and other countries in Europe and elsewhere," Germany’s environment minister, Barbara Hendricks, wrote in a May 5 letter to the administration.

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