Bashar Al-Assad by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44370013
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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Guardian is worried that if Donald Trump is elected as US President, he will reject demands for climate action which are supported by tyrants, war criminals and genocidal maniacs.
Donald Trump would be world’s only national leader to reject climate science
Sierra Club report finds science of climate change accepted by leaders of every country recognized by US – including Bashar al-Assad and Kim Jong-un.
Donald Trump would be the only national leader in the world to dismiss the science of climate change should he become president, putting him out of step even with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea.
The potential isolation of the US on climate change has been laid bare by a new Sierra Club report which found universal acceptance of climate science among the leaders of the 195 countries recognized by the US state department.
Close US allies such as Britain, Israel, Canada and France all have heads of government who have voiced their understanding that the world is warming primarily due to human activities.
Even totalitarian or undemocratic leaders accept mainstream climate science, with Assad calling for nations to “respond more effectively” to the issue and Kim supporting a tree-planting initiative to mitigate greenhouse gases. The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, has labelled climate change a “major global challenge”.
By contrast, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has called global warming “bullshit” and a “hoax” that was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing noncompetitive”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/12/donald-trump-climate-change-science-sierra-club
The following is a link to the Sierra Club Report.
Who could fail to be moved by the Guardian and the Sierra Club’s effort, to gather such a list of climate action endorsements from the world’s bad guys.
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We in the UK have just got a new Prime Minister referred to by old stage Ken Clarke (ex Cabinet Minister under Margaret Thatcher) as ‘a bloody difficult woman’. It doesn’t mean she is to be opposed on everything as a result, does it?
So just because 50% of America thinks Donald Turmp is an asshole, does that mean he has to be wrong about climate science?
How many of you have known some brilliant scientists who are assholes, after all?
I certainly have…………..
Trump is just a no-nonsense, hardnosed businessman who is used to people jumping when he speaks, and if you criticize him, he won’t let it go without a strong reaction. That’s his personality. Lots of “movers and shakers” have that kind of personality.
I prefer that he be more gentile and measured, but I can live without it, as long as he does what he says he is going to do for the United States and the World. I can live with his brash personality. It comes in handy sometimes.
Trump is going to shake the Climate Change world up.
Trump may be an asshole, but he’s our asshole.
With most politicians it’s what you say, not what you do. With Trump it’s the opposite.