People on the left across the United States, and indeed around the world, are reacting to the election of President Donald Trump on November 5th with despair and fear. Perhaps no other group is as alarmed as the global climate movement. The climate cult, which claims that human emissions from fossil fuel use are leading to uncontrollable global warming, reacted to President Trump's victory as if it were humanity's ultimate nightmare scenario. There is.
During his first term, President Trump downplayed concerns about climate change and pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord. In remarks the day after his election victory, President Trump referred to U.S. oil reserves as “liquid gold” and signaled future changes in U.S. policy regarding fossil fuels.
“Dark days” to come
Trump's victory comes ahead of the COP29 climate change summit, scheduled to begin next week in Baku, Azerbaijan. Some lawmakers have already expressed concern that a Trump-led America will not be as climate-friendly as a Biden administration.
“We hope that countries, including China, will reaffirm their commitment to the Paris Agreement at the start of COP 29,” said Li Shuo of the Asia Society Policy Institute's China Climate Hub. “Unlike 2016, the international community is prepared for this. While we are confident that we can overcome the immediate impact, we are concerned about the long-term impact of this election.”
Climate change enthusiasts are concerned that President Trump will not only increase U.S. oil production, but also follow through on his promise to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord once again.
Carbon credits salesman Al Gore lamented the “dark days” ahead for the climate movement that has made him wealthy over the years.
“In times like these, it's important to remember that all major reform efforts, from civil rights to the climate movement, are facing dark days, and this is certainly one of them. One thing,” Gore said in an email to the Climate Reality Project on Wednesday.
“We can grieve the loss, but we cannot remain in despair,” Gore added. “We don't have time for that on our planet.”
America's “Petrostate”
Perhaps no climate fanatic epitomizes the movement's anxieties more than hockey stickgrapher Michael Mann, who called post-Trump America a “failed Democratic state.” In a disparaging article published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Mann declared his re-election of candidate Donald Trump, who has flaunted his desire for dictatorship. “We stand with the United States of America, aided and abetted by a Republican-controlled Congress.” Countries are now becoming authoritarian states ruled by plutocracies and fossil fuel interests. In short, we are now an oil nation. ”
“The United States is likely to soon join a rogue coalition of petrostates that includes Russia and Saudi Arabia,” Mann declared. Mann said the United States, along with Russia and Saudi Arabia, “blocks meaningful progress in the COP process, including but not limited to a commitment to phase out fossil fuels over the required next 10 to 20 years.” He insisted on participating in the effort. To avoid a catastrophic 1.5-2 degrees Celsius (3-4 degrees Fahrenheit) warming of the planet.
In Mann's reality, America has freely chosen to live in a dystopian dictatorship led by fossil fuel corporations that care only about profit. In reality, American voters are choosing a near future in which he and his cronies of the climate disaster movement are rightfully ignored and his predictions of climate disaster are ignored.
