No, New York Times, Trump Cannot Cause Bad Weather – ClimateRealism

Editor’s Note: The New York Times article, “Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet,” claims that President Donald Trump’s policies and actions will result in higher carbon dioxide emissions, causing more droughts, floods, hurricanes, and other extreme weather.

While Trump’s policies may result in increases of CO2 emissions, hundreds of Climate Realism posts and dozens of Climate at a Glance articles have clearly demonstrated that emissions have not and are not changing the weather for the worse.

Weather has not become more extreme as emissions have increased. The NYT is making a connection that science in no way supports – specifically that President Donald Trump and his administration wield power over the atmosphere and climate. This is false.

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Excerpt from The New York Times:

In recent days his administration has slammed the door on every possible avenue of global cooperation on the environment. At the same time, it is sending the message that it wants the world to be awash in fossil fuels sold by America, no matter the consequences.

Under President Trump, the United States has become the only nation to renege on a pledge to try to keep warming to 1.5 degrees. Its actions will make the global fight harder, scientists said.

“Emissions will be higher,” warned Justin S. Mankin, an associate professor at Dartmouth College who researches climate variability. “Trump’s greenhouse gas emissions will cause Trump’s heat waves, Trump’s droughts, Trump’s floods, and Trump’s wildfires.”

“The science is clear that every action matters and every ton of carbon matters,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and professor at Texas Tech. “There’s a price to pay for every ton of carbon we produce, and that price is being added to our global debt.”

Blaming bad weather/hurricanes on Trump and/or ‘global warming’ is a throwback to medieval witchcraft.

Excerpt from the “Have We Advanced since the Middle Ages?” chapter of Marc Morano’s book “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change.”

Did you know?

• Witch hunts increased during the Little Ice Age
• The Aztecs had one advantage over our climate experts- they realized the sun was responsible for global warming
• A University of Cincinnati professor blamed the rise of Hitler on global warming. Princeton Professor Emeritus of Physics William Happer in 2017 drew parallels to today’s man-made climate change claims. “I don’t see a whole lot of difference between the consensus on climate change and the consensus on witches. At the witch trials in Salem the judges were educated at Harvard. This was supposedly 100 per cent science. The one or two people who said there were no witches were immediately hung. Not much has changed,” Happer quipped. [Note: According to The Salem Witch Trial judges: “Five of the nine judges had attended Harvard, though only William Stoughton, Samuel Sewall and Nathaniel Saltonstall had graduated.” – On 27 May 1692, Sir William Phips, the newly appointed royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, appointed nine of the colony’s leading magistrates to serve as judges for the newly created Court of Oyer and Terminer. When Phips sailed into Boston from London on 14 May, there were already 38 people in jail for witchcraft, and the accusations and arrests were growing daily. One of the governor’s first official acts was to create this special court to deal with the growing crisis…Governor Phips carefully chose men he described as “persons of the best prudence.” … All nine were members of the Governor’s Council, and most of them had served as judges for many years. Many had even been on panels that had heard previous witchcraft cases.]