Beijing to Trump: Global Warming Isn’t a Chinese Hoax

In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted that climate change was a concept invented by China to make USA businesses less competitive.

“No one has a right to make decisions for billions of people based exclusively on ideology”, he said. During his campaign, Trump vowed to “cancel” the accord and “stop all payments of US tax dollars to United Nations global warming programs”. “At some point, even the strongest skeptic has to acknowledge that something disturbing is happening”.

Trump’s ascendance is threatening not to simply undo a series of already tenuous worldwide agreements, but give a boost to interests opposed to fossil fuel regulation, while amplifying voices who express doubt – or outright deny – that climate change is real.

Ebell has no scientific qualifications and his job directing environmental and energy policy at the Washington, DC-based Competitive Enterprise Institute is reportedly supported by Marathon Petroleum, Koch Industries, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and Murray Energy Corporation, America’s largest underground coal mining company. “Because of the market decisions that are being made, I do not believe that that can or will be reversed”. “It’s not a set of specific recommendations or a blueprint for any future administration”, he continued, noting that it would not replace the U.S.’ pledge under the Paris accord, known as the “nationally determined contributions” or NDCs, to cut emissions by at least 26 percent by 2025. He could abandon the USA position on Paris, which includes revoking the energy and environmental regulations created by the Obama administration.

Scientists, analysts, activists and world leaders on Monday were anxiously waiting to learn how President-elect Donald Trump plans to reshape climate policy following a campaign in which he dismissed the global warming crisis – with America’s own climate negotiators being left in the dark.

Question: Why are you concerned about the policies of the USA president-elect?

Falling short in the fight against climate change would be a “moral failure, a betrayal of devastating consequences”, he said.

Now the man activists call a “climate criminal”, and who has said that climate change is “phony” and a bogus “pretext for expanding government”, has been given the power to staff the federal agency most often tasked with monitoring and enforcing actions to slow or reverse it. Second, responding to climate change is creating opportunities for new technologies and businesses.

“It is not just about trying to persuade donors and financiers to put up more money, although we are definitely trying to do that, but it also about creating the environment that crowds in a lot more financing”.

Climate change poses an existential threat to vulnerable countries around the world.

He said to Mr Trump: “I appeal to you to show the leadership that the rest of the world expects the United States to take on this issue”.

But Trump also added that the tweet was “done for the benefit of China” because the East Asian country supposedly wasn’t doing anything to help against climate change.

But Fiji is saying that’s not enough, it should come down to 1.5 degrees.

Mr Bainimarama invited President-elect Trump to come to Fiji and see the effects of climate change and talk to the people who have been affected.

Trump has repeatedly called global warming a hoax and has made it one of the priorities in his first 100 days in office to leave the Paris deal, halt any US taxpayer funds for United Nations global warming programs, and revive the USA coal sector.

The Bureau of Land Management’s regulations for hydraulic fracturing, now under judicial review, are another possible target of the Trump administration, attorneys said. It isn’t a partisan issue for our military. The need to curb emissions also motivates expansion of renewable energy. Instead he wants to produce more coal, more oil, and more natural gas.

Now it’s time to turn that momentum into action. “I am confident that we can and we will sustain a durable global effort to counter climate change”.

“That’s why I’m confident for the future regardless of what policy might be chosen, because of the marketplace”.

Last December at the previous Conference, known as COP 21, 196 Parties to the UNFCCC adopted the Paris Agreement, so-named after the French capital where it was approved.

And ministers met on Wednesday to discuss the hot-button issue of finance for staving off risky climate change.