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"On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump declared that he would officially pull
the United States out of the world’s most important global treaty for combating
climate change. He said it was because the treaty ran “contrary to the
interests of the United States.”
His order didn’t say which U.S. interests he had in mind.
Americans had just seen a year of widespread flooding from extreme weather
across the U.S. Deadly wildfires had burned thousands of homes in the nation’s
second-largest metro area, and 2025 had been the second- or third-hottest year
globally on record. Insurers are no longer willing to insure homes in many
areas of the country because of the rising risks, and they are raising prices
in many others.
For decades, evidence has shown that increasing levels of greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere, largely from burning fossil fuels, are raising global
temperatures and influencing sea level rise, storms and wildfires.
The climate treaty – the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change – was created to bring the world together to find ways to lower those
risks.
Trump’s order to now pull the U.S. out of that treaty adds to a growing list of
moves by the admnistration to dismantle U.S. efforts to combat climate change,
despite the risks. Many of those moves, and there have been dozens, have flown
under the public radar."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
