The great climate separation

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What a world in which he lives. It was not before the risk of climate change was very clear and the response to the weapon. If you doubt this, think about last week’s events.

The Trump administration was also Freezing Financing electric car charging programs, Devour The US Agency for International Development, which helps countries to deal with the utmost weather, and Cleaning Climate change is mentioned by government sites. Scientists have revealed some Dismay Data.

Last month, it was the most heated January in January registerDespite the arrival of the circumference of the La Niña circumference, which was expected to reduce the average global temperature.

Yes, it is only one month, and yes, February can be cooler. But it is also possible for humans to continue in the greenhouse gases that flow into the air Scholars Fear. Los Angeles’s intense fires can be unusually normal and biblical floods in Valencia three months ago signs of a shift in the climate system that we have not yet understood.

Either way, the gap has grown between the climate risks and its response to anxiously, not only because of what Donald Trump is doing in the world’s largest economy.

In the largest economy in Europe, the far -right alternative to Germany (AFD) occupies the second place in the period before the elections this month after it pledged to roam in Trump by rupture Wind farms and “air mills of shame”. (Trump is just trying New stop Wind gardens are built – so far.)

Perhaps the turbines are safe: other parties in Germany have excluded work with AFD in a coalition. But in the vicinity in Austria, the right -wing Freedom Party is scheduled to become the first partner in an alliance government, after he won most of the seats in the September elections after its campaign to Reflect Climate measures. He belongs to Patriot to Europe, the third largest group in the European Parlia pool In Madrid on the weekend.

Their mission is that green policies are expensive burdens on ordinary workers that hesitate in more countries.

The conservative leader in Canada, Pierre Pollyfry, presented a similar case against the carbon tax in Justin Trudeau before Canada The next elections. Mark Carney, the climate hero, said to replace Trudeau as the leader of the liberal party, The scrap will Parts of the tax and replace them with less “divided” green policies.

Meanwhile, in the business world, the list of companies whose green efforts will continue to grow. until Norway timing Group Energy, which changed its name from Statoil seven years ago while pushing it to Energy Green Energy, plans to increase the production of fossil fuels and half spending on renewable energy sources.

This is the background to the tenth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Climate Convention, and it is the global agreement that is supposed to accelerate moves to slow global warming.

So far, no Trump country has followed and decided to leave the agreement, although Argentina weight The departure and Indonesia to request Why should you comply with the United States Agreement about to ignore.

Why all this happens now? What has changed since 2020, when companies and countries alike were scrambling to support zero policies? There is no single answer, but it is not a coincidence that the green reaction appeared with the two countries stopping to set zero goals and begin to launch policies to meet them. This was always fraught, especially during the cost of the living crisis. AFD support in Germany increased in 2023 after taking advantage of the controversial government efforts to cancel home heating.

The studied leaders recognize the need to rethink. “The climate movement should be reflected on the young Germans who converted their votes last summer from Greens to AFD because they believed that Green is an elite.” . “We have a lot to do it to restore a narration.”

The UK government is continuing an ambitious climate agenda that includes a clean energy system by 2030. This distinguishes it from an American bent on prolonging the era of fossil fuels, even with its competitors at the edge of Beijing closer to making China the first green power in the world.

The direction of traveling for China. Energy transmission began. But it is difficult to see that it is happening quickly enough to contain an unpredictable and disturbing climate.

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