Climate Letter #882

Trump’s war on science, climate and the environment is now a really big story, widely reported.  Everything previously promised is coming true, and then some.  Here is how the Guardian tells it:

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From the Washington Post, a report covering many reactions to Trump’s new order.  Importantly, from a top EU official, “Despite all the current geopolitical uncertainties, the world can count on Europe to maintain global leadership in the fight against climate change.”  A similar attitude was expressed from Beijing.
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The US is not alone in backsliding on climate while protecting the oil industry.  Canada is heading toward the same outcome, but much more quietly.  “The country, which continues to expand oil and gas production in Alberta’s oil sands despite its stated ambitions to curtail emissions, will make little to no progress towards ambitious emissions reductions targets pledged in December 2015 under the Paris agreement.”
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China has a poor environmental record that needs to be overhauled (Yale E360). “Across the globe, on nearly every continent, China is involved in a dizzying variety of resource extraction, energy, agricultural, and infrastructure projects — roads, railroads, hydropower dams, mines — that are wreaking unprecedented damage to ecosystems and biodiversity.”  China has significantly changed its attitude toward energy, but now needs to do the same with environmental policies.  If used improperly, clean energy can empower much of the same damage to natural resources that is now being done by means of the dirty type.
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New evidence indicates a history of high volatility for the Antarctic ice sheet.  This goes back millions of years, to a period when CO2 levels were similar to those of today.  “The research….suggests that 20 to 30 million years ago the Antarctic periodically gained and lost huge ice caps – equivalent to the entire modern-day East Antarctic Ice Sheet.”  This leads to a new understanding “that the Antarctic ice cap is not some enduring monolithic block but a much more slippery ephemeral beast.”

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