Climate Letter #835

At current rates of destruction rainforests will completely vanish in 100 years.  Deforestation activity accounts for about 12% of current manmade emissions and also greatly reduces the potential for future uptake.  Much of it is happening in poor countries that lack any good means of control.  Fortunately, there are ways for rich countries to help, if they are willing to accept the responsibility.  (From the Guardian.)

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Challenges from climate change are now being faced in Bangladesh.  This country stays in the spotlight because of its enormous population living close to sea level—more than 25 million being at risk from rising waters just by the year 2050.  The rate of rise in this area is higher than normal, and the country has also been exposed to a rising frequency of typhoons.  Many people are already desperate.
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From a Chinese newspaper, how that country is reacting to the latest events in Washington.  There is genuine surprise over how swiftly and completely the new administration has upended climate policy.  One expected outcome is that China will use its influence in the leadership role to build alliances in Europe and try to strengthen the European resolve to maintain and even increase its efforts.  (Would its ties with the US not change?)
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How Trump moved on day one to install a new energy plan.  This is the first unqualified sign that the oil and gas lobby, with coal at its side, now has full control of the US government, and will get exactly what it wants.  There is no “green wing” within the Republican Party to hold them back
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A view that the US will not abandon the Paris agreement.  By staying part of it, Brad Plumer notes, “There’s still a whole lot they could do to bog down global climate talks and hinder efforts to address climate change from within.”  Other nations that are in the agreement are known to want the process to be kept to a minimum, and the US could simply take their side and perhaps become their leader.  Countries that choose to backslide on their current pledges might then be allowed to make excuses that are not widely publicized or criticized.
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Scotland has set an ambitious goal that would cut total emissions by 66% within fifteen years, with no strings.  To date this country has beaten goals set earlier.
Carl

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