Donald Trump is a Catastrophe for our Climate and we Must Start Preparing for the Disasters to Come

Governments around the world need to act now to prevent the worst of what is coming our way.

What would you do if a flood like the one that brought disaster to the people of Valencia at the end of last month hit your community? Perhaps, like most of us, this isn’t something you’ve given much thought. But we all need to start taking this possibility much more seriously, as do our governments. Because the hope that global heating can be limited to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is now dead. Even before Donald Trump’s election, many scientists were warning that this aspiration, the central goal of the Paris Agreement, had receded beyond reach. Carbon emissions show no sign of slowing, let alone of falling at the steep rate needed to stay within this limit. In October, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reported that emissions had risen 1.3% in 2023, and last week data from the EU’s earth science agency, Copernicus, showed that 2024 looks certain to be the hottest year in human history – and the second year running with an annual temperature anomaly clearly above 1.5°C. Trump’s promise to reverse the Biden administration’s clean energy plans and “drill, baby, drill” mean that emissions and the global heating they’re driving are now sure to rise even faster. Carbon Brief calculates that, with Trump’s foot hard on the fossil fuel pedal, US emissions will add an extra four billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 – more than twice as much as has been saved worldwide in the past five years by the deployment of clean energy technologies. This doesn’t mean that it’s time for other people in other countries to give up on efforts to get their governments to take faster action on emissions; quite the opposite.

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/11/donald-trump-climate-change-uk-government/

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