His campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, for instance, asserted on CNN that Trump believes the current climate swing is “naturally occurring,” a view amounting to yet another denial of mainstream science. To be clear: The researchers are happy with the agreement itself, but not with the steps that countries are currently committing to take under it. “I really think the world is definitely on a pathway, as we’re suggesting in that paper, past the 2 degree world,” Watson said. Thus 1.5 degrees has emerged as the new red-line number — especially for small island states and developing countries. All of which may make it even more clear why climate scientists are so increasingly terrified by Trump, who not only denies human-caused climate change, but would apparently try to scuttle the Paris agreement entirely.

Source: National Post September 29, 2016 17:48 UTC