The New York Times editorial board says that President Donald Trump is literally endangering the entire planet with his rolling back of the Obama administration’s climate agenda.
The NYTimes’ editorial, titled “Trump Imperils the Planet,” comes as the print edition published a 12-page special section on the “far-reaching and potentially devastating” consequences of Trump’s environmental policies.
The NYTimes’ editorial board members wrote the United Nations agreeing to rules to implement the Paris Agreement “was a hugely dispiriting event and a fitting coda to one of the most discouraging years in recent memory for anyone who cares about the health of the planet.”
To the NYTimes, it was “a year marked by President Trump’s destructive, retrograde policies, by backsliding among big nations, by fresh data showing that carbon dioxide emissions are still going up, by ever more ominous signs … of what a future of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions is likely to bring.”
Global greenhouse gas emissions are expected to hit record-highs in 2018, rising nearly 3 percent largely because of an uptick of coal-fired power generation. U.S. emissions are also projected to increase slightly this year, despite a decline in coal use.
“The peak in global emissions is not yet in sight,” reads a recent report released by the Global Carbon Project, which tracks emissions.
Virtually no major countries are on track to meet their emissions goals, and even countries, like China, who are ostensibly on-track aren’t actually reducing their emissions. China’s Paris accord pledge involves increasing emissions through at least 2030.
However, the NYTimes claimed that “[no] country’s backsliding, of course, compares with Mr. Trump’s” because of his rolling back three major Obama-era regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
The Trump administration took steps to roll back Obama-era policies mandating cars get better gas mileage, forcing states to cut power plant emissions and effectively banning the building of new coal plants.
“These three programs formed the basis of Mr. Obama’s pledge at the 2015 Paris meeting to reduce America’s greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025,” the NYTimes claimed.
What the editorial board didn’t mention, though, is that taken together, the Obama administration’s Paris climate accord pledge would result in roughly 0.03 degrees Celsius of avoided warming by 2100, according to climate model projections.
If the atmosphere is less sensitive to carbon dioxide than most models estimate, which could very well be the case, then Obama’s climate agenda would have even less of an impact on projected warming.
“They will deserve, along with Mr. Trump, history’s censure for doing virtually nothing to move to a more responsible energy future — and for not doing so at just the moment when the world needed the kind of leadership that Mr. Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry (and Bill Clinton and Al Gore before them), tried to provide,” the editorial board wrote.
That statement also referred to former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and outgoing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, both of whom aggressively pursued Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda before resigning.
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AGW /Climate Change is a big banner campaign slogan aimed at Capitalism. The Denier slur really means Capitalist.
If industrial carbon dioxide is truly an existential threat to society, China is the 800# gorilla.
Trump is merely a threat to socialists.
The NYT’s this is the same liberal rag that covered up for Stalin and Castro and has fabricated 99% of its front page stories
One thing this article high lights is that journalism is dead. Anyone who has been following the climate change movement has already come to the same conclusion. What the New York Times article consisted of was nothing more than would appear in a paid political advertisement, except they did this and other articles for free.
Michael Bastasch pointed out that Obama administration’s Paris climate accord pledge would result in roughly 0.03 degrees Celsius of avoided warming by 2100, and only if the UN climate models were correct. It is obvious that they over state the impact of carbon dioxide so the extreme cost of Obama’s program would have even less of an impact. That is going along with the theory that CO2 is impacting earth’s temperature which is clearly wrong.
Though CO2 emissions don’t matter, a big point is that the US has out performed most industrial nations in reducing these emissions. That is a fact that the New York Times will alway censor out.
The New York Pravda LIES LIES LIES LIES LIE LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES this liberal rag is not worth wasting your money on not even with the Sunday papers and they waste their Freedom of the Press with their daily lying
We should fear more, and we should worry more, that a new glaciation would take place, not so much that catastrophic global warming takes place or is going to take place. Records show that glaciations are the ones that have been truly catastrophic.
Deberíamos temer más, y debería preocuparnos más, que tuviera lugar una nueva glaciación, no tanto que tenga lugar o vaya a producirse un calentamiento global catastrófico. Los registros muestran que las glaciaciones son las que han sido verdaderamente catastróficas.
OMG! All we can do is mitigate the effects of weather; and, other than that, adapt. Not all humanity put in unison could prevent global warming, nor global cooling. Nature is cyclical; and, as man is part of nature, he is affected by those cycles. The animals succumb in great numbers; Man, on the other hand, is ingenious, intelligent, and capable of inventing ways to survive.
President Trump, with his decisions regarding climate, is showing not only that he loves the planet, but that he understands it well enough, that he loves man, and he wants to avoid surprisingly being seen in a climate scenario that he never suspected. The world will never warm up indefinitely, never; and in the current moments, it shows clear signs of being cold. The world has cooled and warmed, repeatedly; and never warming, however intense it may have been, has definitely put an end to the cold; on the contrary, it has sometimes seemed that the heat would not appear again; and if not, there you are the glaciations. Carbon dioxide is affected by climate change, but it does not. While we are not able to realize this, we will be foolishly thinking about the climate, and we will be condemning millions of men not to be in a position to at least mitigate a little, the effects of the weather. But to be able to do it, we should already be quite aware about the functioning of the climate, not too alarmed, waiting for what is not possible to happen, and fighting, like modern Quixotes, against monsters that do not exist, nor will ever exist.
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OMG! All we can do is mitigate the effects of weather; and, other than that, adapt. Not all humanity put in unison could prevent global warming, nor global cooling. Nature is cyclical; and, as man is part of nature, he is affected by those cycles. The animals succumb in great numbers; Man, on the other hand, is ingenious, intelligent, and capable of inventing ways to survive.
President Trump, with his decisions regarding climate, is showing not only that he loves the planet, but that he understands it well enough, that he loves man, and he wants to avoid surprisingly being seen in a climate scenario that he never suspected. The world will never warm up indefinitely, never; and in the current moments, it shows clear signs of being cold. The world has cooled and warmed, repeatedly; and never warming, however intense it may have been, has definitely put an end to the cold; on the contrary, it has sometimes seemed that the heat would not appear again; and if not, there you are the glaciations. Carbon dioxide is affected by climate change, but it does not. While we are not able to realize this, we will be foolishly thinking about the climate, and we will be condemning millions of men not to be in a position to at least mitigate a little, the effects of the weather. But to be able to do it, we should already be quite aware about the functioning of the climate, not too alarmed, waiting for what is not possible to happen, and fighting, like modern Quixotes, against monsters that do not exist, nor will ever exist.
Dios mío! Lo único que podemos hacer es mitigar los efectos del clima; y, fuera de eso, adaptarnos. Ni toda la humanidad puesta al unísono podría impedir el calentamiento global, como tampoco el enfriamiento global. La naturaleza es cíclica; y, como el hombre es parte de la naturaleza, se ve afectado por esos ciclos. Los animales sucumben en gran número; el hombre, en cambio, es ingenioso, inteligente, y es capaz de inventar maneras de sobrevivir.
El presidente Trump, con sus decisiones relativas al clima, está demostrando no sólo que ama al planeta, sino que lo comprende bastante bien, que ama al hombre, y quiere evitar que sorpresivamente se vea en un escenario climático que nunca sospechó. El mundo nunca se calentará indefinidamente, nunca; y en los actuales momentos, da muestras claras de estarse enfriando. El mundo se ha enfriado y se ha calentado, en repetidas ocasiones; y nunca el calentamiento, por más intenso que haya sido, ha acabado definitivamente con el frío; al contrario, a veces ha parecido que el calor no volvería a aparecer; y si no, ahí estás las glaciaciones. El dióxido de carbono se ve afectado por el cambio climático, pero no lo produce. Mientras no seamos capaces de caer en la cuenta de esto, estaremos opinando neciamente acerca del clima, y estaremos condenando a millones de hombres a no estar en condiciones de por lo menos paliar un poco, los efectos del clima. Pero para ser capaces de hacerlo, ya deberíamos estar bastante concientizados acerca del funcionamiento del clima, no demasiadamente alarmados, esperando lo que no es posible que ocurra, y luchando, cual modernos Quijotes, contra monstruos que no existen, ni existirán jamás.