Trump 2.0 Un(der)covered: What This Really Means For The Climate — And the World

While “climate change is a hoax” wins the election, 2024 is “virtually certain” to be the hottest on record

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So “climate change is a hoax” Donald Trump is set to reclaim the reins of the world’s largest historical greenhouse gas emitter.

Unsurprisingly, neither Trump nor Kamala Harris made the climate crisis a prominent feature of their campaigns, daring to confront the elephant in the room. This oversight occurred even as the US was pounded by weather disasters supercharged by an unusually warm Atlantic Ocean that claimed 232 lives across the southwest in a merciless display of climate change’s growing wrath.

And here’s the most ridiculous irony: nearly half of those deaths occurred in the swing state of North Carolina, which, believe it or not, moved decisively behind Trump. In the state’s still-recovering western region, voters lacking proper polling stations cast their ballots in tents.

Meanwhile, global temperatures have been so high through the first 10 months of 2024 that only an implausibly sharp drop in the final two months would prevent a new record from being set.

According to Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus…