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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Nov 6, 2024, 07:42 PM Nov 6

'A wrecking ball': experts warn Trump's win sets back global climate action

Donald Trump’s new term as US president poses a grave threat to the planet if it blows up the international effort to curb dangerous global heating, stunned climate experts have warned in the wake of his decisive election victory.

Trump’s return to the White House is widely expected to result in the US, yet again, exiting the Paris climate agreement and may even remove American involvement in the underpinning United Nations framework to deal with the climate crisis.

While campaigning for president, Trump has called climate change “a big hoax”, scorned wind energy and electric cars and vowed to gut environmental rules and the “green new scam” of the Inflation Reduction Act, a major bill passed by Democrats to support clean energy projects.

Trump’s agenda, analysts have found, risks adding several billion tonnes of extra heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere, further imperiling goals to stave off disastrous global heating that governments are already failing to meet. Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, said that the US is now a “failed democracy” and that “we now pose a major threat to the planet.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wrecking-ball-experts-warn-trump-171850259.html

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'A wrecking ball': experts warn Trump's win sets back global climate action (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 6 OP
AP: In new term, Trump set to go after measures that are doing the most to fight climate change OKIsItJustMe Nov 6 #1

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1. AP: In new term, Trump set to go after measures that are doing the most to fight climate change
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 08:09 PM
Nov 6
https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-climate-pollution-oil-gas-clean-energy-f6ad39e23613396a7536fb1dc25fca62
In new term, Trump set to go after measures that are doing the most to fight climate change

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MATTHEW DALY
Updated 4:51 PM EST, November 6, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The election of Donald Trump as president for a second time and the Republican takeback of the U.S. Senate could undo many of the national climate policies that are most reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to climate solutions experts.

When they list measures that are making the most difference, it lines up with policies Trump has said he’ll target.

These rollbacks will come as more lives are being lost in heat waves, record amounts of climate pollution are accumulating in the atmosphere, the United States has been hit with what may be two of its most expensive hurricanes, and nations, which will meet in Baku, Azerbaijan next week for climate negotiations, have failed to take strong action to change these realities.

Here are some of the measures.

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