Monthly Archives: September 2017
Trump’s Letter: Allowing China to Increase Emission for Years to Come
Evaluating the statements in Trump’s letter regarding the Paris Agreement on climate change, Trump refers to the United States pledge to reduce greenhouse as an unnecessary financial toll for the American people and states “meanwhile, the [Paris] agreement allows countries … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon dioxide emissions, China, Donald Trump
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The Future of Climate Science Under the Trump Administration
During the 2016 Presidential campaign Donald Trump famously made inflammatory claims in which he questioned the indisputable science of climate change. Uninformed and vague statements on the subject of climate change left many to worry about what would happen … Continue reading
Checking Donald Trump
Truth-O-Meter: Half-True: Partially accurate, but excludes important context. In June of 2017, Donald Trump made the drastic decision to pull the United States out of the long negotiated Paris Agreement. While this may have not been a major surprise, as … Continue reading
Fact Check: Does Renewable Energy Make Sense?
In defense of his decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, President Trump offers his assurance that the commitment would be unfair to the United States. Among his claims is that “the Obama Administration’s emissions commitments would require us to … Continue reading
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Fact-Checking Trump
Donald Trump has made some pretty bold claims in his short time serving as our president, but what are charismatic statements without truth- propaganda perhaps? The Politifact website shows, the majority of Trump’s statements are False, a recorded 33% of … Continue reading
Posted in Risk and resilience, Trump & Paris Agreement
Tagged China, climate change, Donald Trump, Paris Agreement, politics, UNFCCC
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President Trump’s New Promise: The Erosion of America’s Global Leadership in Climate Change Action
“Continued participation in the Paris Agreement would be fundamentally unfair to American taxpayers. It would require the transfer of billions of their hard-earned dollars to other countries through the ‘Green Climate Fund.’” Truth-O-Meter rating: mostly false (contains an element of … Continue reading
The Importance of Mitigation in a World Combating Climate Change
During the 2nd half of the 20th century, scientists from different parts of the world began to conduct research on the effects that a developing world was having on the environment. They noticed that the temperature, the level of the … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Kyoto Protocol, Mitigation, Paris Agreement, Sinks
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