Donald Trump’s Victory A Major Win For Fossil Fuel Interests and Climate Science Deniers As Countries Gather for UN Talks

Donald Trump's election to the U.S.
presidency has sent shockwaves
 across the geopolitical world.
 

Donald Trump has been elected as the next President of the United States, marking a major victory for fossil fuel interests and the network of groups and individuals across the world who deny climate change science.

The election of Trump, who has described climate change as a “hoax,” has sent shockwaves across the geopolitical world and added undeserved legitimacy to the arguments of climate science deniers.

Questions will now be raised about just how much damage a Trump administration could do to climate change policies domestically and internationally.

Environmentalists have said a Trump presidency would be a “planetary disaster.”

Analysts have written that Trump's pronouncements on energy policy — overwhelmingly supportive of oil, gas and coal — also suggest the Republican would try and strip all funding that supports renewable energy development and climate research.

Read Graham Readfearn’s story on Desmog Blog - “Donald Trump’s Victory A Major Win For Fossil Fuel Interests and Climate Science Deniers As Countries Gather for UN Talks.”