Climate change may influence U.S. Presidential election

Donald Trump - not a 'big believer' in
man-made climate change.

Donald Trump, now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has said that “I’m not a big believer in man-made climate change.” Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is a strong proponent of climate change action, and a supporter of continuing President Obama’s policies on the matter, which include joining and honoring the Paris climate agreement and instituting the Clean Power Plan, which would shift domestic electricity generation onto a less carbon-intensive path.

Hillary Clinton - she cares about
human-induced climate change.

Now that the race appears to have narrowed to these two, it sets up a situation that many environmentalists have long hoped for — one in which a sharp contrast on climate change between the two candidates means that it might not only come up prominently in an election, but moreover, actually make a difference. (And if Bernie Sanders somehow racks up hard-to-imagine delegate totals in coming races or achieves some kind of convention upset, that contrast would only be heightened further.)

Read The Washington Post story - "Why this could finally be the election where climate change matters.”