Donald Trump has again taken the US out of the Paris Agreement. But the Paris Agreement will survive a US withdrawal: it did so before and will do so again, but it will take solidarity and leadership from key countries to do so.
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Along with withdrawing from the Paris agreement Trump is also rolling back automobile standards, pushing to further expand oil and gas development - which were already at record levels - and undermine the rollout of renewable energy.
If these moves succeed, then The US is likely to miss out on the clean energy and tech race, handing the gains to its competitors in China, Europe, Brazil and elsewhere.
Nevertheless, President Trump's actions are a setback to climate action in multiple dimensions. Having an openly climate denialist president of the United States take office on the back of the warmest year in 100,000 years is a very bad signal.
The Trump ascendancy is a major victory for the fossil fuel industry, principally oil and gas companies-who have campaign and supported his election, and have been calling for policies that allow an expansion of oil and gas development in the United States and globally.
Global warming will not go away just because President Trump says he doesn't believe in it - it will continue and it will accelerate and it will cause more disasters such as what we’ve seen in Los Angeles in the last weeks.
A rollback of US policies for four or five years will be significant and could lead to additional 4 billion tonnes of emission by 2030. This alone will make the task of limiting warming to 1.5° harder.
How does it survive when it’s already dead in terms of practical efforts to actually reduce fossil emissions by participating states? At some point soon, if we want to survive, we all have to face the reality of the readings at Mauna Loa.
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https://x.com/CA_Latest/status/1879512305442116054
https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-natural-disasters-losses-insurance-recovery-d2f24e44d75503118643151eaee947fb#:~:text=While%20it's%20still%20too%20early,%24135%20billion%20and%20%24150%20billion.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump-election-win-could-add-4bn-tonnes-to-us-emissions-by-2030/