Could Trump’s Second Term Break the Climate? ft @DrGilbz

Can you name one tangible accomplishment pertaining to the reduction in either atmospheric CO2 or global temperature in response to the Paris Climate Agreement? Promises are nice, but has any actual progress been made?

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Thanks for the video and insights. Would be interesting to do a similar format but with a pro-Trump/project 2025 person to have a more conflicting discussion!

Break the climate? Nah, it's already broken. All he can do is jump up and down on the pieces and make them harder to clean up--which he is, I think, inclined to do.

After these Trump appointments, we Europeans no longer have any doubt that Trump, alias “Orange Yanukovich”, and his new cabinet of horrors are nothing more than Putin’s puppets in the White House and are there to favour the interests of the oligarchies that control Russia and China and not the interests of the United States and Americans. The United States is on the way to the worst economic and political isolationism and will fall into the worst plutocratic autarky ever seen in its history. The United States is a mortally wounded democracy as was Germany in the 1930s with Hitler.

Trump is the latest wet fart from a poorly digested past.

I would rather have lived at the end of the Roman empire than at the end of the U.S. empire. I imagine the results of this will wipe out most of humanity by 2050, but this would have happened regardless of who won the imperial figurehead position.

Republicans are trying to block child labor laws already so kids can work instead of paying people a wage l.

If I'm not mistaken those reductions were a result of the Obama administration. Just as with the departure from the Paris Climate Accord the effects of Trumps rollbacks did not have time to take effect before the Biden administration took office.

I can't believe Donald Trump is so completely idiotic that he doesn't believe in Global Warming. I heard the prediction is he is not going to live past 2025 [ie: April, 2025], but then somebody even worse (the vice-president) could take his place. Again the new energy sources are being suppressed because of what the leader of my new energy group said --- the fear of greater weapons of mass destruction. Also it is very difficult to STOMP down the ignorance.

Trump vs Earth... Trump will lose (unfortunately)

Trump will not help but to be honest I think China India and lots of other countries are a bigger worry concerning co2 and other dangerous emissions

Have both of you taken a vow never to fly or vacation abroad again? If not, hold your tongues.
If you look at what people actually do, no-one cares about climate damage. Least of all the sanctimonious elites who lecture us about it. COP29 is yet another highly polluting holiday in an exotic location for thousands of smug hypocrites. When the political and academic class swears to forgo air travel, the rest of us might start listening.

Very curious if there are literally any fans of ClimateAdam that voted for Trump

Trumps 1st term ensured 1.5C. 2nd ensures 2.0C. Without any upper limits.

We are at the worst case, rcp8.5, emission line and temperature is even above that.

29 COPs failed. And they are not talking about phasing out fossil burning which is the main cause of climate change.

@ClimateAdam welp he isn't even in office and he's already trying get legislation passed for he can steal the money from environmental groups to give tax cut to billionaires

I assume that Turnip imagines that his god will exclude his chosen from the effects of boiling the sea. Or whatever. Get off your arses people.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL ! GOP FASCISM IS REAL ! ENJOY !!!

Kamala wasn't going to be able to save the biosphere, but she wouldn't destroy it as fast as Trump will.

4 years of MAGAfascist climate chaos 😕😡

USSR wins

China's carbon emissions are 4 times what the US produces and make up 35% of earths carbon emissions... and they are climbing. The US emissions have been dropping for 20 years and are basically where they were in the 70's. Trumps second term isn't going to break the climte. China and india combined might though. In fact of the top 5 emitters 4 are part of the new BRICS movement. Russia, china, india and brazil.

Oh look at that our species will destroy itself. Shocking

Thanks for taking your time for this podcast.

I was thinking of some changes that could be fairly easily done that are not strictly fuel related. What if for example meals that are sold or served anywhere like in restaurants and cafeterias; had to be made up by at least 60% (for example) of calories coming from plants. That would greatly lessen emissions. It wouldn’t force a diet onto anyone as it would only be x% plants. Or if cardboard was banned from online sales. Instead there could be re-usable boxes made from recycled plastics, properly padded, that you send back after use and thereby get a deposit back for the box. Woodland would be saved due to less felling, and the carbon sink (woodland ) would not shrink as much. Just some ideas.

Trump is going to be stopping the climate from changing. Like Biden did and all previous Presidential occupiers have done. Back in the 70's Jimmy saved the climate, the Ronald saved the roof of the white House. Fossil fuels will survive another 4 years. My hot rod is safe for another 4 more.
There is no one rebuilding a Tesla in 30.years

Estados Unidos vai ser a nova Rússia 😂😂😂😂😂

Estados Unidos Idade Média idade dás trevas 😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Everyone that thinks they can curve the climate and not talk about frequency being used is fooling themselfs.

See the newest Secretary of Interior just announced 😢

American voters didn't care much about climate change for various reasons. Democrats are notorious for not putting information out there about anything. They seem to expect voters to just notice what they are doing.

grass roots and destroy pipelines

Paleoclimate deniers pairing up for doom and gloom videos. 😂😅
As I've told other paleoclimate deniers, when the snow no longer melts off during the summer in the higher latitudes, THEN we'll have some serious problems. Until then, just relax and enjoy the warmer weather.

I'm not a climate scientist but i know enough about it to say this is gonna push us over the edge

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If you put yourself in the position that vulnerable that Trump or whatever president has full power over decision about global climate, congrats we deserve it whatever the outcome.

lets be honest with ourselves we are living through the end game of the answer to the Fermi paradox.

What's glaring about America is the inaction of the youth, unlike in Europe where school kids strike for action. The US is inward looking, that the youth are busy with consuming themselves out of a planet.

Could Trump’s Second Term Break The Climate? Not unless we do solar geoengineering!

What percentage of your commentary are anti Trump?
Is this a climate change discussion group our just full of hatred of Trump on a democratic level?
Do I have to have shaggy hair locks to be taken seriously?

one little nitpick : you expect trump to learn from the mistakes he made last time ? forget it . that's one of the core red flags with low functioning narcissism ; they're unable to acknowledge their mistakes , and thus unable to learn anything ... at all .

Good to listen to people who give a damn about climate and the planet, thankyou.

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What will we be able to do? Really. He will just twist things up and never listen to any educated person!

Mankind is not getting a handle on this. Not at all. The capitalist class has seized everything. The political process, the media, and the produtive potential we need to build the world of tomorrow.

Since I'm in Canada I didn't get to choose who to vote for. The two choices are like a double edged sword. On one hand Biden was funding a war with Russia instead of spending the money at home. As for Trump he's going to stop that and close the American Border with Mexico and expel the 13,000,000 illegal immigrants or try to. In either case Climate Change is rapidly approaching dangerous levels and I fear that My young Grandchildren won't get to enjoy our planet's bounty as long as my generation has. I guess they will find out, but I might not live as long to find out myself. Heaven help them.