The great climate disconnect

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What to live on earth. Before that the danger of climate change was not so clear and the response was not so cavalry. If you suspect this, consider the events of the last week.

Trump administration was such Frosty Financing for electronic car charging programs, Gut USAID agency that helps countries to deal with the ultimate weather of the weather and Scrubbing Mention of climate change from official websites, scientists have unveiled something Disappointed Data

It showed that in the warmth of the last month RecordDespite the arrival of the cool La Nina Ocean, which was expected to reduce the average global temperature.

Yes, it is only one month and yes, February can be cool. But it is also possible that the greenhouse gases put people in the atmosphere in the atmosphere are removing the ability to be naturally cool, as something Scientists Fear Three months ago, Valencia’s abnormally acute los Angeles fire and Bible flooding could be a sign of change in the climate system that we still do not understand.

By the way, the interval between climate risks and reactions has expanded anxietyly, and not just because Donald Trump is doing the largest economy in the world.

In Europe’s largest economy, the far right option for the German (AFD) party is giving Trump a second vote in the run-up of this month’s election. Trump promised to go out of Trump Sprinkle The air farm and their “shame windmills”. (Trump is simply trying Turn off new Wind parks are being built – up to now.)

The turbines are probably secure: other parties in Germany have ruled with AFD in an alliance. But the door next to Austria, the far right Freedom Party will become a senior partner of a coalition government, after the campaign won the maximum seat in September. Contrary Climate system. It belongs to Europe’s Patriots, the third largest team in the European Parliament, whose far -right leaders were hit in “Green Deal Idology” A rally In the weekend Madrid.

Their message that green principles are expensive burdens over ordinary workers that resonate in more countries.

Conservative Leader of Canada, Pierre Pievrey, before Canada made the same suit against Justin Trudeau Carbon Tax Incoming elections. The ongoing climate champion Mark Carney said to replace Trudeau as the leader of the Liberal Party, he said Will scrap Replace the parts of the taxes and it with the low “parting” green principles.

Meanwhile, in the business world, the list of companies that bring back their green efforts increases. Even Norway The Energy Group, which changed its name from the statue seven years ago because it pushed it to green energy, now plans to increase the cost of fossil fuel production and renewing half.

This is the background of the tenth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015, the global agreement that is considered to accelerate global warming.

So far, no country has followed Trump and decided to quit the deal, although Argentina was Weight Have an exit and Indonesia Inquiry It is necessary to comply with an agreement that is going to ignore the United States.

Why all this is happening now? What has changed since 2021, when companies and countries were shaking to support net zero policies? There is no single answer but it is not a coincidence that countries simply stop setting the net zero target and start the policy to meet them. It was always going to be filled, especially during the expenditure of living crunch. After the exploitation of the controversial government’s efforts to decorbonize the additional heating decorbonizing in 2023.

Thoughtful leaders acknowledge the need for reconsideration. “The climate movement must reflect young Germans who voted in AFD from Greens last summer because they considered Green elite,” UK Climate Ambassador, Rachel Kit last week, spoke on a memorial speech for the late climate diplomat, Pitt Bates. “We have a lot to do to get back to a description.”

The UK government is following an ambitious climate agenda that includes a clear power system by 20. It distinguishes from bend in the United States to prolong the fossil fuel age, even its rivals on the Beijing end make China the world’s first green-powered electrostate.

Travel direction is in favor of China. Power transfer has begun. However, it is hard to see that it is more unpredictable and annoying climate.

pilita.clark@ft.com

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