But what happens if the next president is a man who doesn’t believe in climate science, or indeed in inconvenient facts of any kind? Republican hostility to climate science and climate action is usually attributed to ideology and the power of special interests, and both of these surely play important roles. He’s also a bitter foe of wind power. And it’s not hard to see why: At this point Donald Trump’s personality endangers the whole planet. Can the planet really be in danger because a rich guy worries about his hairdo?

Source: New York Times June 03, 2016 07:18 UTC