Some elite U.S. politicians` denial of the science backing up climate change is worrying, the United Nations environment chief said on Wednesday, adding that the fight against global warming would continue, even without the United States.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has in the past dismissed climate change as a "hoax", vowing during his campaign to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, a deal among nearly 200 countries to curb global warming.
Trump, who won the November election on a range of populist promises to deregulate and revive the energy sector, has appointed to his cabinet climate change skeptics, including oil magnates - moves that have angered green groups.
...moreKen Notes: Lets focus on immediate harms of (as well as benefits of reducing) carbon. Trying to argue man-made global warming with those not willing to listen is just dumb. We need to tell them there is gold in dem dar hills and it is found in sustainable energy. Jobs, profit, health, and a return to US leadership in control, engineering, construction, and development.
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