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Undated:
Climate Change: How Do We Know?
Facts. Evidence.
The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000
years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the
abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of
the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate
changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the
amount of solar energy our planet receives.
The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is
extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human
activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is
unprecedented over decades to millennia.1
Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled
scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of
information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. This body of
data, collected over many years, reveals the signals of a changing climate.
The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in
the mid-19th century.2
Their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere
is the scientific basis of many instruments flown by NASA. There is no question
that increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the Earth to warm in
response.
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Undated: There are claims that "31,000
scientists say global warming is not happening". However, these are apparently
people who are not proven to be scientists and/or who do not work in the
specific sciences necessary to have the experience or knowledge about those
issues contributing to global warming ... in other words, they may have
experience or knowledge in an unrelated field, rather like an educated
experienced veterinarian working as a pediatrician.
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As of December 2017:
Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1
show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree:
Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human
activities. In addition, most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide
have issued public statements endorsing this position.
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
-- 2016 --
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November 23: trump on climate change ... facts vs hyperbole
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/trump-on-climate-change/
December 14: Scientists are Saving Climate
Data; This Is Why it Matters
In recent days, efforts have sprung up to archive climate data on federal sites.
They’ve been spurred by fears that the Trump administration could take a hostile
stance toward climate science and that
budget cuts could make data less accessible.
While the administration hasn’t said it’s going to erase or curtail access to
climate data, appointments to the Trump transition team and the views of his
cabinet nominees have set alarms bells ringing. And with good reason. The data
that NASA, EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S.
Geological Survey and countless other federal agencies collect is essentially
the bedrock of scientific enterprise.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/scientists-saving-climate-data-why-it-matters-20976
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Undated: Energy Department
Refuses Trump's Request for Names on Climate Change
Trump's transition team asked for the names of people who have worked on climate
change and the professional society memberships of lab workers
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/energy-department-refuses-trumps-request-for-names-on-climate-change/
March 9:
EPA chief: Carbon dioxide not 'primary contributor' to
climate change
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/politics/scott-pruitt-global-warming-human/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
March 23:
Trump’s climate change
shift is really about killing the international order
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/29/trumps-climate-change-shift-is-really-about-killing-the-international-order/?utm_term=.a3f8c6a9652a
March 28:
Trump orders government
to dismantle Obama’s climate change policies
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-orders-government-to-dismantle-1490723850-htmlstory.html
March 28: President Trump, flanked by
company executives and miners, signed a long-promised executive order on Tuesday
to nullify President Barack Obama’s climate change efforts and revive the coal
industry, effectively ceding American leadership in the international campaign
to curb the dangerous heating of the planet. ...
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At a ceremony, Mr. Trump directed the Environmental Protection Agency to start
the complex and lengthy legal process of withdrawing and rewriting the Obama-era
Clean Power Plan, which would have closed hundreds of coal-fired power
plants, frozen construction of new plants and replaced them with vast new wind
and solar farms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/climate/trump-executive-order-climate-change.html
March 28: With [Trump's] order to move
forward with the rollback, climate diplomats around the world maneuvered to fill
the vacuum left by the exit of the globe’s second-biggest climate polluter [the
United States].
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/climate/trump-executive-order-climate-change.html
March 29: President Donald Trump signed [executive order to halt] the United
States' government's attempts to curb carbon dioxide emissions with the goal of
encouraging American business.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/28/politics/donald-trump-climate-change-executive-order/index.html
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March 29:
Making Sense of Trump's
Order on Climate Change
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-29/making-sense-of-trump-s-order-on-climate-change
March 29: What Trump's climate
change order accomplishes -- and what it doesn't
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/28/politics/donald-trump-climate-change-executive-order/
March 29:
China Poised to Take
Lead on Climate After Trump’s Move to Undo Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/asia/trump-climate-change-paris-china.html
March 29: On Climate Change ... 30 of Donald Trumps wildest quotes
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/wild-donald-trump-quotes/13/
March 30: Trump is planning to decide by late May on whether the U.S. should
stay in the Paris climate change agreement
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/326561-trump-to-decide-whether-to-stay-paris-climate-pact-by-late-may
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April 5: If society does nothing and continues burning fossil fuels,
scientists say we can expect worsening super droughts, deadlier heat waves,
mass extinction in the natural world and
rising seas that ... will sink half of Florida as
well as many coastal cities. It's not a
matter of if as much as when ... Don't think it's a big deal? ... Ask
yourself: What if you're wrong?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/politics/sutter-pruitt-fox-question/index.html
May 31: President Trump is nearing a
decision on whether to formally withdraw the U.S. from
the Paris climate
agreement — a landmark deal in which nearly every country volunteered to
curb its greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit global warming. ...
Trump
tweeted early Wednesday that he'll announce his decision "over the next few
days."
... the president could
pursue a faster course [of withdrawing from the Climate Accord] by dropping out
of an underlying treaty,
the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That requires the
same one-year notice, but there's no waiting period. Unlike the Paris agreement,
the UNFCCC is a
Senate-approved treaty, so senators would probably want to have a say in
such a move.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/31/530890143/trump-has-multiple-escape-routes-from-paris-climate-accord
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Donald Trump and his campaign refused to acknowledge instances of his referring
to global warming/climate change as a "hoax." What does the public record show?
Trump’s current position, as clarified by his campaign manager, Kellyanne
Conway, in a 27 September 2016
interview with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, is that climate change exists but is
“naturally occurring".
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Here, from the public record, in his own words, are instances of Donald Trump
calling global warming a hoax (and more colorful things):
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-global-warming-hoax/
June 1: President Donald
Trump announced his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord
Thursday, a major step that fulfills his campaign promises while seriously
dampening global efforts to curb global warming. The decision amounts to a
rebuttal of the worldwide effort to pressure Trump to remain a part of the
agreement, which 195 nations signed onto. Foreign leaders, business executives
and Trump's own daughter lobbied heavily for him to remain a part of the deal,
but ultimately lost out to conservatives who claim the plan is bad for the
United States.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/01/politics/trump-paris-climate-decision/index.html
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June 1: [Trump withdraws from Paris Climate
Accord]: I am fighting every day for the great people of this country.
Therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its
citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord — ... —
but begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris Accord or a really entirely
new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its
workers, its people, its taxpayers. So we’re getting out. But we will start to
negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair. And if we can,
that’s great. And if we can’t, that’s fine.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-trump-paris-climate-accord/
June 2: The agreement won’t fall apart
overnight. Already,
reports suggest China and the European Union are prepared to publicly
recommit to the agreement. Some experts say China appears to be
reducing emissions ahead of schedule, in part because the country is phasing
out coal quicker to reduce choking smog in its major cities.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/here-s-what-happens-if-trump-leaves-paris-climate-agreement-n766761
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June 1: [Trump] has denied the existence of
climate change and appointed as the head of the EPA a man who
doesn't accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are causing
global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Obama decried Trump's decision in a
statement released Thursday.
"The nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap
the benefits in jobs and industries created," the former president said.
He
added: "I believe the United States of America should be at the front of the
pack. But even in the absence of American leadership; even as this
Administration joins a small handful of nations that reject the future; I'm
confident that our states, cities, and businesses will step up and do even more
to lead the way, and help protect for future generations the one planet we've
got."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/01/530748899/watch-live-trump-announces-decision-on-paris-climate-agreement?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170601&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews
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June 2: Donald Trump’s
rejection of the Paris climate change treaty is
the most emphatic answer to date on the question the rest of the world has been
asking since January: What does “America first” mean?
“I am elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” the president
declared ...
With those words,
the US joined Nicaragua and Syria in rejection of an accord signed by 195
states which was voluntary and open to amendment from within.
The UN climate change envoy, Ireland’s former president, Mary Robinson, declared
the decision made the US “a rogue state on the international stage.”
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/abandoning_paris_climate_accord_marks_trumps_return_to_angry_populism/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2eKLp5q41wIVglh-Ch3UEgK9EAMYAyAAEgL6wfD_BwE
June 1: Explaining his choice to withdraw
the US from the Paris climate agreement, Trump said: "I was elected to represent
the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris."
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Pittsburgh's Democratic Mayor Bill Peduto, in an interview on CNN's "The
Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," said Trump was off-base to point to his
choice as benefiting the city -- in part because Pittsburgh swung strongly for
Hillary Clinton.
"The city of Pittsburgh voted for Hillary Clinton with nearly 80% of the vote,"
Peduto said. "He may be talking about all of western Pennsylvania, but it's a
far cry from being Pittsburgh."
https://conservativecorporatism.blogspot.com/2017/06/trump-destroying-global-climate-weather.html
June 2: The business community lashed back
at
Donald Trump's decision to ditch the Paris climate accord, as two
high-profile executives quit the US President's advisory council and Goldman
Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein took to Twitter for the first time ever to express
disapproval.
"Today's decision is a setback for the environment and for the US's leadership
position in the world," Mr Blankfein wrote.
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Walt Disney chief executive Bob Iger and Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk both
withdrew from a presidential jobs panel as a result.
And such blue-chip US titans as General Electric, Ford Motor, Dow Chemical and
Microsoft were among companies weighing in with their dismay.
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson's response was, perhaps, the most personal:
The decision, he wrote, made him "want to cry".
https://www.smh.com.au/business/climate-change-is-real-ceos-voice-their-disappointment-over-trumps-decision-20170602-gwipva.html
June 2:
Richard Branson: 'History will treat Trump incredibly
unkindly'
http://www.cetusnews.com/business/Richard-Branson---History-will-treat-Trump-incredibly-unkindly-.Syen9L-kGW.html
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June 3:
The world is "laughing (and) crying at the president of the United
States, who clearly doesn't know what he's talking about," former U.S. Secretary
of State John Kerry told CNN on Friday.
"I would ask Donald Trump, does he think that (Chinese) President Xi (Jinping),
(France's) President (Emmanuel) Macron -- that the Prime Minister of Great
Britain (Theresa May), the Chancellor of Germany (Angela Merkel) -- don't know
what they're talking about? Are they stupid?" Kerry, a Democrat, asked. "Is he
accusing them of somehow buying into a hoax?"
http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/413971/Kerry-World-laughing-crying-at-Trump-on-climate-science
June 4: President Donald Trump does believe
in climate change and that humans have a role in it, US Ambassador to the UN
Nikki Haley told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview on "State of the Union."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/03/politics/nikki-haley-donald-trump-climate-change-cnntv/index.html
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June 5: David Rank, the chargé d‘affaires of
the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, has left the State Department over the Trump
administration’s decision to quit the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate
change, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-diplomacy/top-u-s-diplomat-in-china-quits-over-trump-climate-policy-idUSKBN18W2NT
June 5: Fifty-nine percent of Americans
oppose President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate agreement,
according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/05/poll-americans-oppose-paris-exit-239150
June 7:
US President Donald
Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement has been
criticized by major global powers from Europe to South America.
Now ... In a statement Tuesday, Pyongyang [North Korea] said
Washington's move represented "the height of egoism and moral vacuum seeking
only their own well-being, even at the cost of the entire planet."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/asia/north-korea-trump-climate-change/index.html
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July
20:
A former senior official at the U.S. Department of the Interior claims the
Trump administration
[attempted] to push him out of the agency in retaliation for speaking out about
climate change.
Joel Clements, who previously handled policy around the impact of climate change
on Alaskan communities, filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that his public
comments on climate change motivated the U.S. Department of the Interior to
reassign him to a position in an accounting office that collects oil and gas
royalty checks.
https://www.ecowatch.com/whistleblower-climate-change-2462474066.html
July 27: ... major cities — including
Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Seattle – [are]
joining other cities across the
country in
posting deleted climate change data from the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
Officials say the city [of Minneapolis] is making sure people have access to information on
climate change ... they posted a snapshot of the EPA site before
it was removed [by the Trump Administration].
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/07/27/mpls-posts-deleted-epa-climate-change-data/
October 5: The Washington Post
reported late yesterday that Joel Clement, a scientist and policy expert at
the Interior Department, was “removed from his job by Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke shortly after” he disclosed how climate change affects Alaska Native
communities. Clement was reassigned “to an accounting position for which he has
no experience,” prompting him to resign.
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On his way out, however, the scientist noted that there are laws in place to
prevent this kind of mistreatment – laws that Donald Trump’s cabinet secretary
appears to have ignored. The department’s inspector general has
launched an investigation into this and related reassignments.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/widespread-corruption-allegations-add-trump-worlds-troubles
October 23: Nicaragua to join Paris climate
accord, leaving US and Syria isolated
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/23/nicaragua-joins-paris-climate-accord-us-trump-syria
October 23:
EPA Keeps Scientists From Speaking About Report on Climate
The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled the appearance of three
scientists at an event on Monday in Rhode Island about a report, which deals in
part with climate change.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-10-23/epa-keeps-scientists-from-speaking-about-report-on-climate
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/07/as-syria-embraces-paris-climate-deal-its-the-united-states-against-the-world/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.64ef97f44d3e
November 11:
It is not just on trade that Trump has sought to stake out positions that
have isolated the United States from the rest of the world. His
plans to withdraw from the Paris climate accord at the earliest
opportunity in 2020 could mean that the United States is the only country
in the world not committed to it, since Syria announced its
intention to join last week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-america-first-looks-more-and-more-like-america-alone/2017/11/11/5cffa150-c666-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html?utm_term=.a088c422b36f
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December 6:
With the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acknowledging fault, a
group of federal lawmakers offered a forceful warning today never to
repeat a troubling incident earlier this fall. In October, the EPA
withdrew its scientists from an important workshop on the health of
Narragansett Bay and the threats posed by climate change and other
environmental factors. After a group of New England members of Congress
demanded an explanation, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt responded with
a letter assuring the members of Congress that “[p]rocedures have been put
in place to prevent such an occurrence in the future.” Pruitt also said
the EPA would continue to fulfill its obligations under the National
Estuary Program (NEP), which helps to protect estuaries like the
Narragansett Bay.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/epa-responds-to-new-england-members-of-congress-on-silencing-of-scientists
December 11: Several U.S.-based climate
scientists are about to win multi-year, all-expenses-paid grants to relocate to
France.
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The "Make Our Planet Great Again" grants are an effort by French President
Emmanuel Macron to counter U.S. President Donald Trump on the climate change
front. Macron announced a competition for the grants hours after Trump declared
he would withdraw the U.S. from the global accord reached in Paris in 2015 to
reduce climate-damaging emissions.
Macron is unveiling the winners Monday evening ahead of a climate summit Tuesday
aimed at giving new impetus to the Paris accord and finding new funding to help
governments and businesses meet its goals.
More than 50 world leaders are expected in Paris for the "One Planet Summit,"
co-hosted by the U.N. and the World Bank. Trump was not invited.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/12/11/france-to-name-winners-anti-trump-climate-change-grants.html
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December 12: Eighteen climate scientists
from the U.S. and elsewhere hit the jackpot Monday as French President Emmanuel
Macron awarded them millions of euros in grants to relocate to France for the
rest of Donald Trump’s presidential term.
http://www.thenews.mx/science/france-names-winners-of-anti-trump-climate-change-grants/
December 18: The
Trump administration has dropped climate change from a list of global
threats in a new national security strategy the president unveiled on Monday.
Instead, Trump’s NSS paper emphasised the need for the US to regain its economic
competitiveness in the world.
That stance represents a sharp change from the
Obama administration’s NSS, which placed climate change as one of the main
dangers facing the nation and made building international consensus on
containing global warming a national security priority.
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The
Federalist website, which first reported that Trump would drop climate
change from the NSS, quoted the draft document as suggesting the Trump
administration would actively oppose efforts to reduce the burning of oil, gas
and coal for energy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/18/trump-drop-climate-change-national-security-strategy
December 25: Donald Trump and the Triumph of
Climate-Change Denial ... The science of man-made global warming has only grown
more conclusive. So why have Republicans become less convinced it’s real over
the past decade and a half?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/donald-trump-climate-change-skeptic-denial/510359/
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December 29: Cold weather doesn't disprove
climate change, Donald Trump
... scientists say that the
record low temperatures and
record high
snowfalls aren’t proof that global warming is a hoax: they’re precisely the
weather you’d expect in a warming world.
There’s a lot of wrongness to unpack in Trump’s [December 28] tweet, so we’ll
focus on that intractable myth that climate change spells the end of cold
weather. It doesn’t.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/29/16829752/donald-trump-cold-weather-tweet-climate-change-global-warming-winter-lake-effect-snow
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January 5: Week 50: When It Gets Cold,
Trump’s Climate Change Denial Heats Up ... Trump bloviates on climate, blows off
the United Nations, and deregulates blowout preventers.
Donald Trump ended a year of climate
change flimflammery in true Trump style: with an uninformed,
ill-conceived tweet. Trump proclaimed—presumably through touchscreen-compatible
gloves—“In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps
we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but
not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against.
Bundle up!”
https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/week-50-when-it-gets-cold-trumps-climate-change-denial-heats
January 17: One
year under Trump: 'Attack' on climate change fight ... US president is rolling
back the country's efforts to fight climate change. Here's a look at what he has
done so far.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/explained-donald-trump-attack-environment-171203184502851.html
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January 17: Trump and the Military Are at
Odds on Climate Change
While the Trump administration has largely rejected climate change as an issue,
the Department of Defense and Congress have identified it as a major potential
threat to national security.
https://psmag.com/environment/our-government-is-in-two-minds-over-climate-change
January 23: The trouble with Trump leaving
climate change to the military
Late last week, the Pentagon released the
unclassified summary version of America’s new National Defense Strategy. For
the first time since 2008, it makes no mention of climate change.
The administration didn’t cite climate change in its
National Security Strategy release in December, either. After that, a
bipartisan group of 106 lawmakers
begged Trump to reconsider, but at this point, there is no reason to think
he or his appointees plan to listen. At least formally, they plan to ignore
climate change in security and military policy.
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This neglect has prompted a great deal of agita in the climate community, where
the nexus of climate change and national security is
intensely studied. It would be
strategically disastrous for the US military to ignore climate change.
Practically speaking, it cannot.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/23/16918280/trump-military-climate-change
January 23: Trump is bringing America First
to the climate-change economy
Donald Trump just
dealt a blow to clean energy in the US.
On Monday (Jan. 22), he approved higher tariffs on solar cells and modules made
abroad, putting duties
as high as 30% (pdf) in the first year and gradually dropping them to 15%.
The idea is to protect US manufacturers of solar equipment from cheaper
offerings made overseas, especially by Chinese companies. Critics were quick to
contend, however, that other parts of the solar energy sector, such as
installers that rely on cheap imports, would be hurt by the move.
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Installers
make up a majority of the industry’s employment.
https://qz.com/1186305/trump-is-bringing-america-first-to-the-climate-change-economy/
January 27: Donald Trump appears to
misunderstand basic facts of climate change in Piers Morgan interview ... US
President also expressed willingness to 'go back in' Paris climate agreement,
but only if US is given 'a good deal'
When asked if he believed in the existence of climate change, however, Mr
Trump’s answer did not chime with the scientific consensus.
“There is a cooling, and there’s a heating. I mean, look, it used to not be
climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well
because it was getting too cold all over the place,” he said.
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While global warming refers only to the Earth’s rising surface temperature,
climate change is a broader term that includes the other effects of carbon
pollution, such as changing weather patterns.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-misunderstands-basic-facts-climate-change-piers-morgan-interview-a8181381.html
January 28: When it is warm in winter, it is
not evidence that there is no climate change as deniers insist. In fact, extreme
weather events are caused by changes in the climate. Trump has no grasp of the
issue, but Fox News has told him that there is no such thing as climate change,
so that is what the president believes ...
It would be a comfort in one respect to be able to blame Trump’s ignorance on
something being wrong with his brain because the alternative is that one of the
dumbest people in the universe is leading the world’s only superpower.
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/28/trump-humiliates-himself-when-asked-about-climate-change-during-softball-interview.html
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January 29: Once again, Trump skips
facts on climate change
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/trump-skips-facts-climate-change-180130091555763.html
January 29: Does Trump even know that his
climate change rhetoric is nonsense?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/29/does-trump-even-know-that-his-climate-change-rhetoric-is-nonsense/?utm_term=.4e9b377b156f
January 29: Trump shared his thoughts on
climate change, and surprise, they’re dumb
https://grist.org/article/trump-shared-his-thoughts-on-climate-change-and-surprise-theyre-dumb/
January 29:
It's Time to Stop Analyzing Donald Trump's Climate Change Beliefs
https://earther.com/its-time-to-stop-analyzing-donald-trumps-climate-change-1822509328
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January 29: Donald Trump gets polar ice
trend backwards
"The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now
they’re setting records, so okay, they’re at a record level."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jan/29/donald-trump/trump-gets-polar-ice-trend-backwards/
January 29:
Trump Says Climate Is Both 'Cooling' and 'Heating.' He's Only Half Right
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/climate/trump-climate-change.html
January 31: State of the Union: Trump
Glorifies Coal, Shuts Eyes to Climate Risks
Trump talked of the year's climate disasters—without saying 'climate change'—and
while repeating his usual promotion of the fossil fuels that drive global
warming.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31012018/trump-state-union-address-climate-change-energy-coal-infrastructure
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February 1: America’s top weather scientists
offer to set Trump straight on climate change
Letter from American Meteorological Society points US President to 'wealth of
comprehensive and accurate information' available via government agencies like
Nasa
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-climate-change-america-scientists-offer-explanation-global-warming-us-president-a8189201.html
February 6: From dropping out of the
Paris climate deal to overturning environmental
regulations,
President Donald Trump has targeted a number of Obama-era policies on climate
change in his first year — with one notable exception.
The Trump Administration has hesitated to throw out a key
deal reached in 2016 to phase out a pollutant found in air conditioners that
is a factor in climate change, in part because American companies think it could
be a huge business opportunity for them.
http://time.com/5134208/kigali-amendment-donald-trump-climate-change/
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February 13:
A Running List of How Trump Is Changing
the Environment
The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and
environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/
February 20:
As the Trump administration
retreats on climate change, US cities are moving forward
https://theconversation.com/as-the-trump-administration-retreats-on-climate-change-us-cities-are-moving-forward-91612
February 21: Europeans rip Trump on climate
change, import record amounts of U.S. coal
As France,
Germany and
Italy chastised
President Trump
for rejecting the Paris
climate accord in June and mocked the U.S. for turning its back on the
environment, their nations were busy importing record amounts of American coal.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/21/trumps-european-climate-change-critics-fuel-us-coa/
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February 21: 'Trump Forest' planters want to
curb climate change one tree at a time
In efforts to counter President Trump's decision to pull the United States from
the Paris Agreement, donors across the world have donated more than $130,000 to
plant 1 million carbon-absorbing trees in a project dubbed the 'Trump Forest.'
The "Trump Forest" – dubbed by three New Zealanders behind a website channeling
funds to the project – hit the million milestone this week as the president
heads into his second year in office, backers said.
Adrien Taylor, one of three activists behind the project, launched the effort
last March with the aim of planting carbon-absorbing trees to counter Mr.
Trump's policies on climate change.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2018/0221/Trump-Forest-planters-want-to-curb-climate-change-one-tree-at-a-time
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February 22:
One arm of the Trump
administration thinks climate change is a security threat
Another thinks it is a hoax
https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21737267-another-thinks-it-hoax-one-arm-trump-administration-thinks-climate-change
February 22:
Former Trump Aide Calls
Paris Climate Accord ‘a Good Republican Agreement’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/climate/george-david-banks.html
March 21: It's official: NYC hasn't seen
snow like this in 130 years
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/new-york-city-record-snow/index.html
March 23: In Alaska, a town threatened by
climate change gets federal funding to relocate
The village of Newtok has been trying relocate to safer ground for decades.
The small coastal village of Newtok, Alaska has secured more than $15 million in
funding to begin relocating households to safer ground inland. The funding is
part of the $1.3 trillion spending bill signed Friday.
This amount, however, is still just a fraction of what’s required to relocate
the whole village.
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Located along the banks of the Ninglick River, the land on which the community
of roughly 350 people lives has been eroding away
since the late 1950s. They have been trying to relocate since 1994 but
securing funding has remained elusive and the effects of climate change — sea
level rise, stronger storms, and melting permafrost — have made the situation
increasingly urgent.
https://thinkprogress.org/newtok-alaska-gets-relocation-funding-35b4434242a6/
Fewer whales have been seen in their traditional feeding spots off the coasts of
New England and Canada (because warming ocean temperatures are affecting their
traditional prey).
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April 11: Atlantic Ocean circulation at
weakest point in more than 1,500 years
New research provides evidence that a key cog in the global ocean circulation
system hasn't been running at peak strength since the mid-1800s and is currently
at its weakest point in the past 1,600 years. If the system continues to weaken,
it could disrupt weather patterns from the United States and Europe to the
African Sahel, and cause more rapid increase in sea level on the US East Coast.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180411131642.htm
May 3: Temperature fluctuations that are
amplified by climate change will hit the world's poorest countries hardest, new
research suggests.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180503142732.htm
May 5: Approximately 191 feral horses have
been found dead in a stock pond on Navajo land in northern Arizona, according to
Navajo leaders, who attributed the death to ongoing drought and famine.
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"These animals were searching for water to stay alive. In the process, they
unfortunately burrowed themselves into the mud and couldn't escape because they
were so weak," Navajo Nation Vice President Jonathan Nez said in a
statement on Thursday.
Drought and dryness as of Thursday was affecting more than 6 million people in
Arizona, which is almost the entire population of the state, according to the
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
National Integrated Drought Information System program. About 50% of the
state is under extreme drought conditions.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/us/arizona-navajo-dead-horses/index.html
May 20: Global sea levels are rising at an
alarming rate, posing a serious threat to human and animal populations around
the world. Scientists attribute a big chunk of this rise to melting ice at the
world's poles, which lose
several hundred billion tons of ice each year due to
rising
global temperatures. But on Wednesday (May 16), Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks
proposed an alternative hypothesis: Perhaps the White Cliffs of Dover are to
blame?
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"What about erosion?" Brooks
asked in a meeting of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on
Science, Space and Technology. "Every time you have that soil or rock or
whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to
rise, because now you have less space in those oceans, because the bottom is
moving up."
https://www.livescience.com/62613-erosion-causes-sea-level-rise-mo-brooks.html
May 30: Many Republican mayors are advancing
climate-friendly policies without saying so ...
Leadership in addressing climate change in the United States has shifted away
from Washington, D.C. Cities across the country are organizing, networking and
sharing resources to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and tackle related
challenges ranging from air pollution to heat island effects.
https://theconversation.com/many-republican-mayors-are-advancing-climate-friendly-policies-without-saying-so-97223
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Donald Trump and his campaign refused to acknowledge instances of his referring
to global warming/climate change as a "hoax." What does the public record show?
Trump’s current position, as clarified by his campaign manager, Kellyanne
Conway, in a 27 September 2016
interview with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, is that climate change exists but is
“naturally occurring".
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Here, from the public record, in his own words, are instances of Donald Trump
calling global warming a hoax (and more colorful things):
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-global-warming-hoax/
June 1:
Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. 'No exceptions'
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060083155
July 30: Berlin court demands far-right
party correct claim that German funds went to Clinton campaign
A far-right political party in Germany must issue a correction after asserting
German funds were indirectly funneled to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 2016
election campaign, according to a Berlin court order.
Alternative for Germany must post a statement to their website claiming that
Germany’s environment ministry “paid no money whatsoever to support the election
campaign of Hillary Clinton,”
the Associated Press reports.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/berlin-court-demands-far-right-party-correct-claim-that-german-funds-went-to-clinton-campaign-report
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July 30:
Georg Pazderski, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AFD) party,
was ordered to scrub its website of the accusation and issue a correction
stating that the German ministry "paid no money whatsoever to support the
election campaign of Hillary Clinton,” Deutsche
Welle news reported Monday.
The court ruled that the false accusations recklessly jeopardized “public
confidence" in the federal ministry by making the claim that a German agency had
intervened in the U.S. election.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/399618-german-court-orders-far-right-party-to-retract-claim-that
July 30: The [AFD] party had claimed
[millions of] German government funds intended for climate-related projects in
Africa overseen by the charitable Clinton Foundation had gone to Clinton’s
election campaign.
Alternative for Germany, which welcomed Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory and
wants international sanctions against Russia lifted, didn’t immediately respond
to a request for comment.
https://apnews.com/c73194c256ee4265a1e7032f8f6dfa81
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The Trump directive makes no mention of climate change.
The Trump administration announced a new policy to fight wildfires, doubling
down on its assertion that the best response is better forest management rather
than focusing on climate change.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said Thursday that the U.S. Forest Service
would increase the amount of logging and controlled burns on federal lands, to
reduce the amount of fuel available to drive increasingly severe forest fires.
He brushed off questions about whether climate change was making those fires
worse.
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September 24: [From "why do people love -or
hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]
12. He didn’t sign the Paris Climate Accord.
While the earth is warming and the seas are rising and nearly every climate
scientist on Earth insists all nations have to come together to solve a problem
that threatens to render the human race extinct, Trump ignored all the experts
and voted to choose death and cancer and pollution.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/
September 26: How a
massive wall in Antarctica could hold back rising seas
Engineering glaciers could slow sea-level rise at the source.
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/vast-wall-antarctica-could-slow-rising-seas-some-scientists-are-ncna913456
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October 10: Huge reduction in meat-eating
‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown
Major study also finds huge changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying
Earth’s ability to feed its population
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/10/huge-reduction-in-meat-eating-essential-to-avoid-climate-breakdown
October 10: Trump suggests the climate may
actually be 'fabulous' after an ominous UN report on looming disaster
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-doubt-un-climate-change-report-2018-10
October 25:
The White House requested a PowerPoint presentation for President Trump from a
group devoted to attacking climate science.
During the transition period after Trump's electoral victory, senior White House
aides reached out to the Heartland Institute, a think tank that works to cloud
the findings of scientists, to request a presentation on climate change, said
James Taylor, the organization's senior fellow for environment and energy
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Taylor said the PowerPoint was similar to the group's publication, "Climate
Change Reconsidered." The publication, which drew insights from 117 scientists,
economists and others, including many funded by the energy industry, concluded
that the world needs more fossil fuels and that climate change isn't a problem.
The world's major science academies determined long ago that there is no
legitimate academic debate about whether humans are driving climate change.
Countless studies have traced how humans are warming the planet at an
unprecedented pace through the burning of fossil fuels. Also, global warming is
permanently changing parts of the planet, and it won't "go back," as Trump
claimed last week.
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060104341
November 13:
For Trump, even disaster response is colored in red and blue
A president who prizes and craves loyalty more than any other attribute, Trump
has divided states into ones that voted for him and the ones that didn’t, and
found that last group wanting. In California, that has meant state officials are
having to fight not only killer fires but also the combustible rhetoric coming
from the Oval Office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-again-blames-california-for-a-natural-disaster-adding-to-his-public-denunciations-of-the-strongly-democratic-state/2018/11/12/811626de-e6ab-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.abd512a026b1
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November 19: Climate
Change Does More Than 'Maybe Contribute a Little Bit': Debunking Trump's
California Wildfire Claims
What research tells us about the impact of climate change, forest management,
and more on California's fires.
https://psmag.com/news/climate-change-does-contribute-debunking-trumps-california-wildfire-claims
November 22: President Trump used the
freezing temperatures forecast for much of the country on Thanksgiving Day to
throw cold water on fears about “Global Warming.”
“Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS – Whatever happened to
Global Warming?,”
he
wrote late Wednesday on Twitter from his resort in Florida
where he’s spending the holiday weekend.
Trump has long been a skeptic about climate change, which a consensus of the
scientific community embraces as fact.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association points out that weather is what
you experience when you step outside and can quickly change – snow can turn to
rain, for example.
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But climate happens over a long period of time.
https://nypost.com/2018/11/22/donald-trump-doesnt-understand-climate-change/
November 22: A top U.N. scientist on
Thursday shrugged off an online quip from U.S. President Donald Trump that
questioned global warming, saying a U.S. government report will show the
"fundamental impacts of climate change on the U.S. continent."
Officials at the World Meteorological Organization also said environmentally
minded efforts by the state of California, in parts of the financial sector,
among grassroots activists and others will have more of an impact to help the
fight against climate change than "political disturbance" and "discourse" will
impede it.
The science, they said, will have the last word.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/as-trump-questions-global-warming-un-says-us-gov-t-won-t
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November 24:
Climate report: Trump administration downplays warnings of looming
disaster
Democrats ramp up pressure to act in wake of most sobering government analysis
yet
The
Trump administration attempted to downplay the stark findings of its own
climate change assessment, as Democrats sought to pressure the White House to
avert looming economic and public health disaster.
The
US National Climate change assessment, the work of 300 scientists and 13
federal agencies, was released on Friday afternoon. It found that wildfires,
storms and heatwaves are already taking a major toll on Americans’ wellbeing,
with climate change set to “disrupt many areas of life” in the future.
The voluminous report, which warns of hundreds of billions of dollars lost, crop
failures, expanding wildfires, altered coastlines and multiplying health
problems, represents the most comprehensive and sobering analysis yet of the
dangers posed to the US by rising temperatures.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/24/climate-change-report-trump-administration-democrats-reaction
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November 25: The shores of Cape Cod, Mass.,
have seen a spike in the number of debilitated and dead sea turtles, with nearly
600 animals washing up so far this year, according to wildlife officials.
Scientists say that the naturally migratory turtles are heading farther north as
climate change warms the planet's oceans. Some are now summering in the Cape Cod
Bay, where they become trapped "by the Cape's hook-shaped geography," according
to the sanctuary.
"Stranding season" typically lasts from about Thanksgiving to Christmas. This
year's numbers have already passed what's typical for a year — and the total
might climb to 1,000 sea turtles before the end of December.
In the last four decades, cold-stunned sea turtles have been on the rise,
peaking with 1,250 animals in 2014, according to the sanctuary.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/25/670705681/more-than-200-sea-turtles-stunned-by-cold-wash-up-off-cape-cod-this-week
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November 30: Dozens Of Pilot Whales Die In
New Zealand's 3rd Mass Stranding In A Week
"Pilot whales have probably been stranding in New Zealand since before people
lived there. It's probably not anything to do with what humans have done,"
Ingram said. "It's a very dynamic ecosystem that these animals are in, so I
would be very cautious in making any connection between these examples and
climate change."
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672263152/dozens-of-pilot-whales-die-in-new-zealands-3rd-mass-stranding-in-a-week
December 3: A major international climate
conference kicked off Sunday in Poland.
For the next two weeks, leaders from around
the world will meet to talk about how to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions
and support those communities that are already being affected by climate change.
It is the most important climate meeting since
195 countries, including the
U.S., signed the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015 and promised to set specific
emissions reduction targets. The
U.S. said it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent by
2025.
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In 2017, President Trump announced his intention to
withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Trump has also systematically tried to
roll back national regulations that would keep the U.S. on track to reduce
emissions, including rules governing emissions from power plants, cars and
trucks.
Although the U.S. must technically remain in the agreement until 2020, its
delegation is not expected to play the leading role that it has in past
negotiations.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/03/671243911/high-stakes-as-international-climate-conference-begins
Undated: We are not holding our breath that
President Trump will start backing up his administration’s environmental agenda
with scientific facts. But we are holding him accountable for what he says.
President Trump’s torrent of misleading statements and flat-out lies has an army
of journalists working 24/7 to set the record straight. To help those who focus,
as we do, on climate, energy, and other environmental issues, NRDC will call out
Trump whenever he distorts the facts about such matters. Here, we offer our
inaugural edition of Trump Lies. We expect to update it regularly.
https://www.nrdc.org/trump-lies
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December 14: Tax Return Shows Mercer Family
Funded Climate Skeptics Last Year With More Than $4 Million
Rebekah Mercer and her father, Robert Mercer, have also supported Steve Bannon,
Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tax-return-shows-mercer-family-fueled-climate-skeptics_us_5c12be38e4b0cce3ea29d15f
December 5: The Real Estate Industry Is
Fighting New York City’s Historic Climate Bill On Technicalities
It’s a divide-and-conquer approach critics say could weaken one of the most
important major pieces of municipal climate legislation in the world.
The bill, called
Intro. 1253
and introduced last Wednesday, sets an ambitious timeline for cutting emissions
from buildings of more than 25,000 square feet ― the city’s biggest source of
carbon pollution ― starting in 2022 and increasing steadily until meeting a 40
percent reduction by 2030. From there, the legislation gives landlords until
2050 to double those cuts.
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“We can’t wait anymore,” City Councilman Costa Constantinides, a Queens
legislator who leads the council’s Committee on Environmental Protection, said
at the hearing. “The time to act is now.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nyc-climate-bill_us_5c070847e4b0680a7ec9eea7
December 19: Rare Tornado In Washington
State Causes ‘Catastrophic’ Damage
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rare-tornado-damages-homes-in-washington-state_us_5c1a3b5fe4b0432554c63dc7
December 20: The Texan city mayor fighting
Trump on climate change
Georgetown in Texas is the largest US city to be powered by 100% renewable
energy. It happened under the watch of Republican mayor Dale Ross, an unlikely
climate change hero.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-46625452/the-texan-city-mayor-fighting-trump-on-climate-change
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April 15:
Millennial Trump Supporters Are Breaking With Their Party Over Climate Change
“I think conservatives for a long time have been too willing to just let this be
a left-wing issue.”
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/04/millennial-trump-supporters-are-breaking-with-their-party-over-climate-change/
April 22:
Trump issues Earth Day message without mentioning climate change
President praised the benefits of a ‘strong market economy’ but did not echo
warnings from scientists on rising temperatures
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/trump-earth-day-message-climate-change-strong-market-economy
May 2:
Trump administration pushed to strip mention of climate change from Arctic
policy statement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-pushed-to-strip-mention-of-climate-change-from-arctic-policy-statement/2019/05/02/1dabcd5e-6c4a-11e9-8f44-e8d8bb1df986_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0620955050e3
May 3: Europe May Use Trump's Favorite
Economic Weapon to Punish His Inaction on Climate Change
The threat in French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks last week was easy to
miss. But if he follows through, its effects wouldn’t be.
More than 40 minutes into a meandering press conference, Macron reiterated his
goal to put fighting climate change at the center of his government’s policies
as well as those of the European Union, calling for a “carbon tax on borders”
for the bloc.
“The success of this transition goes through our European commitment, our
capacity to defend at the European level the need to achieve a carbon price,” he
said, according to a translation.
Macron did not get into specifics, but such a measure would likely mean a carbon
tax in E.U. member countries coupled with a fee on imports from non-E.U.
countries that don’t have their own carbon tax or another form of carbon
pricing.
http://time.com/5582034/carbon-tariff-tax-fee-europe-macron/
November 24:
Greenland Is Not For Sale. But It Has The Rare Earth Minerals America Wants
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/24/781598549/greenland-is-not-for-sale-but-it-has-the-rare-earth-minerals-america-wants
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