Former President Donald Trump’s reelection threatens to worsen global climate change by altering the trajectory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, eroding federal climate research and forecasting, and abdicating America’s leadership role in global climate negotiations.
Why it matters: His return to the White House comes at a time when climate scientists have warned that the Paris Agreement’s warming targets are slipping dangerously out of reach, raising the odds of potentially catastrophic consequences.
I don’t know why the focus is on US emissions and not production.
We produced more fossil fuels under Biden than trump, the difference is we use fossil fuels to ship the rest of the fossil fuels half way around the planet for them to burn over there.
Shit will get worse, but it has been getting worse longer than most of us have been alive.
If the best we can ever do is slow down the increase of damage rate, we’re just mopping the deck of the Titanic while it goes down.
Importing fossil fuels is more of an accelerant to climate change than domestic production. Approximately 40% of global cargo ships are carrying fossil fuels.
Increased production does not imply increased consumption. Our dependence on fossil fuel has decreased, and renewable energy consumption has increased, in the last four years.
I don’t know why the focus is on US emissions and not production.
We produced more fossil fuels under Biden than trump
That’s why. The sections of the billionaire-owned media that don’t deny anthropogenic climate change or pretend that it’s a good thing all have a vested interest in pretending that Dem leadership can do no wrong.
If the best we can ever do is slow down the increase of damage rate, we’re just mopping the deck of the Titanic while it goes down
That’s like people really want to still brag about “Biden’s signature climate legislation” despite fossil fuel companies publicly asking for trump to keep it, because it’s making them so much money.
Rather than just doing what Dem voters want and getting the votes, Dem politicians keep doing what Dem voters hate for the donation money, then try to use it to convince all the people they pissed off to still vote for them.
If the goal is electing Dems the DNC is completely incapable.
If their goal is making sure billionaires keep accumulating wealth tho, they’re doing a great job ensuring regardless of who wins an election the wealthy always make more money.
I’m sorry but what was the current administration doing about the climate?
Paris accords are trash, but even if they were good goals the US hasn’t made any serious effort to meet them
Until we dramatically change business as usual, no one president is really at fault
We’ll definitely be dramatically changing just not in the right direction
What will Trump do that is different from our current climate action? MORE nothing?
More oil drilling/use, less incentives/investment in green energy, more climate denial, and signal to the world that we will not even consider any new global accords no matter how bad it gets because Trump will never admit he was wrong about climate change being a non-issue
So… more of the same with none of the virtue signaling?
Yes, emphasis on “more”
The IRA, while still inadequate, was a pretty substantial bill regardless, and was helping move the needle on green energy.
The Paris Accords were bullshit propaganda with no teeth for enforcement. They talked about mitigating climate change while the 2 US proxy wars dumped millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
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