And we’re woefully unprepared for whatever is coming, no matter the scenario: “It’s good that some worst case scenarios for fossil fuel emissions now seem implausible. But what had been considered best case scenarios—for emissions, warming, and the disasters they’ll strengthen—are implausible now, too.” too.”

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https://newrepublic.com/article/210854/trump-twisted-climate-debate-beyond-recognition

Trump Twisted a Climate Debate Beyond Recognition

​Researchers concluded that one future climate scenario is unlikely to happen. Right-wingers went wild.

The New Republic

“The days of loudly debating the science have mostly given way to something quieter and more insidious: a campaign to withhold the raw information itself. ‘I don’t know if we’re living in climate denial anymore,’ said Leah Aronowsky, a science historian at Columbia Climate School. ‘We have this new front of denial by erasure.’”

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https://grist.org/language/trump-administration-climate-data-disappear-national-climate-assessment/

Why the federal government is making climate data disappear

Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure.

Grist

👉 “Climate politics in the era of Trump 2.0 ought to abandon its reliance on feel-good, far-off promises, and reckon with the actually existing nature of the climate crisis in the United States: a deadly, expensive mess being supercharged by the right.” 👈

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https://newrepublic.com/article/197754/climate-disasters-cynical-republicans

Climate Disasters Are Catnip for Cynical Republicans

​While Democrats are ignoring the climate crisis, the right​ is using ​it as a handy source of chaos they can exploit to advance their own aims.

The New Republic

“Rep. Sean Casten (D-Illinois), who has a background running clean energy businesses, said the order is about helping the market for fossil fuels by harming competing sources of electricity.

‘Donald Trump doesn’t hate renewable energy because it is clean,’ he said in an email. ‘He hates it because it’s cheap.’”

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08072025/trump-executive-order-targets-solar-wind/

Trump Issues Executive Order Targeting ‘Unreliable’ Clean Energy Options - Inside Climate News

The order reiterates measures included in the recently passed budget reconciliation bill, leading renewable energy advocates to question its significance.

Inside Climate News