Claim: A Trump Victory Would Set the Planet On Fire
16 hours ago Eric Worrall
Essay by Eric Worrall
The Trump obsessed media is still talking about Trump and Elon Musk dissing climate tropes.
The new wave of climate claptrap
Misleading, misinformed or just plain baffling utterances continue to gush forth in the face of an increasingly evident problem.
Pilita Clark Columnist
You can sum up the world in just one word today: hot.
Powerful heatwaves have struck every continent over the past year. At least 10 countries have recorded daily temperatures above 50 degrees in more than one place. Wildfires are scorching unusually large areas of the globe and coral reefs have been hit by the fourth global bleaching event on record.
…
But last week, in a conversation on his X platform with Donald Trump, Musk said the climate risk wasn’t actually as high as many thought before launching into a mystifying explanation for why there was loads of time left to tackle it.
If the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere keeps rising from today’s average levels of around 420 parts per million to above 1000 ppm, “you start getting headaches and nausea”, he told Trump. But since we’re only adding about 2 ppm of CO₂ a year, “we still have quite a bit of time” and “we don’t need to rush”.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/24/claim-a-trump-victory-would-set-the-planet-on-fire/
