Assuming A 2nd Term For Shitstain, Assume Even More Disastrous Climate Impacts - Here's How Bad

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A recent Rhodium Group analysis looked at what would happen to carbon dioxide emissions if all of Trump's major environmental rollbacks took effect in his second term. It found that CO2 emissions would soar by 1.9 to 3.1 gigatons cumulatively from now through 2035. The climate impact of that increase cannot be overstated, said Hannah Pitt, an analyst at the Rhodium Group and the author of the analysis. "That's more than the annual emissions of 70% of countries on Earth combined," Pitt said. "So it's a lot of emissions."

Put another way, pumping up to 4.2 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere would take the world closer to a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius, a point at which irreversible climate change could be locked in. In a report released yesterday, the U.N. Environment Programme warned that preventing a 1.5-degree scenario would require reducing annual CO2 emissions by 15 gigatons in 2030.

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Yet the coalition will only get the United States to a 17% reduction in emissions by 2025, according to projections from the World Resources Institute. The original U.S. pledge under the Paris Agreement was a 26% to 28% reduction by that year. With regard to other countries, a U.S. exit from Paris could send a signal to big emitters like China and India that it's acceptable to continue investing in new coal plants and other fossil fuel infrastructure, said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "There are obviously forces in those countries that have an interest in continuing fossil fuel production," Meyer said. "And they would make use of the U.S. being out of Paris as an argument for why their countries shouldn't do more."

Peter Erickson, a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute, said U.S. withdrawal from Paris — coupled with four more years of Trump's "energy dominance" agenda — would send the wrong signal to the rest of the world about fossil fuels. "For the U.S. to be the world's top fossil fuel producer — top oil producer, top gas producer and expanding — that undermines, unequivocally, global progress on climate," Erickson said. "It essentially floods the market with fossil fuels at a time when we need to be going in the other direction. And that matters for prices [and] for markets," he said.

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