Trump 2.0 could make even the most optimistic climate observers cynical – but it's not the whole story | Adam Morton
Much is unclear about how Donald Trump’s return to power will affect efforts to tackle global heating but there are a few things we can say
You’ve probably already heard the worst-case takes: that a second Trump presidency is a disaster for the climate, and will almost certainly lead to emissions being higher than they otherwise would have been. There’s obvious truth in that. But it’s also true that Trump 2.0 will almost certainly not play out in line with immediate post-election predictions.
We have been here before. As the writer and analyst Ketan Joshi points out, in 2016 it was projected that Trump’s policies would lead to a steep rise in US emissions – a fork in the road at odds with the decline forecast if Hillary Clinton had won.
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