{"id":263057,"date":"2017-01-03T12:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=263057"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:36:57","slug":"trump-and-the-climate-his-hot-air-on-warming-is-far-from-the-greatest-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/01\/trump-and-the-climate-his-hot-air-on-warming-is-far-from-the-greatest-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the climate: His hot air on warming is far from the greatest threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald J. Trump has long pledged to undertake a profound policy shift on climate change from the low-carbon course President Obama made a cornerstone of his eight years in the White House.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/a>

Gage Skidmore \/ Creative Commons<\/p>

President-elect Donald Trump (photo cc info<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThis very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop,\u201d Trump tweeted a year ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Trump doubled down, nominating champions of fossil fuels to several cabinet positions and peppering his transition team<\/a> with longtime opponents of environmental regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both the rhetoric and the actions have provoked despair among many who fear a Trump presidency will tip the planet toward an overheated future, upending recent national and international efforts to stem emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n

But will a President Trump noticeably affect the globe\u2019s climate in ways that, say, a President Hillary Clinton would not have?<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, a variety<\/a> of consultants<\/a> tracking climate and energy policy have used models to help address that question. ProPublica asked Andrew P. Jones at Climate Interactive<\/a>, a nonprofit hub for such analysis, to run one such comparison.<\/p>\n

The chosen scenario assumes Trump\u2019s actions could result in the United States only achieving half of its pledged reduction through 2030 under the Paris Agreement on climate change<\/a>, the worldwide but voluntary pact aiming to avoid dangerous global warming that entered into force on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n