THE American election demonstrated that the President elect could spout emotive generalities all day long, including his views on climate change. Apparently he doesn’t believe it’s happening, perhaps to satisfy his fundamentalist supporters.

However that’s probably wishful thinking as he argues that as the weather goes up and down we can’t change it. Climate science is apparently a Chinese hoax to make American trade uncompetitive, as well as being nonsensical bull****.

Even if he doesn’t pull America out of the Paris climate agreement his economic strategy will make a nonsense of policies to reduce emissions. His cabinet are from the climate change denial camp intent on dismantling the progress of the last eight years. They are scary.

He intends to re-open coal mines to create jobs, and reintroduce oil drilling and fracking into federal lands and the Arctic. The Keystone Canadian tar sands oil pipeline will now reach the Gulf of Mexico, and the Dakota one will go through Sioux tribal lands.

The Environmental Protection Act will be revoked to the detriment of air and water quality as will the Clean Power Plan developing renewables. Money for the UN climate change work will be scrapped as will funding for climate research. NASA will now concentrate on deep space rather than planet earth, and many industrial and transport regulations will be relaxed.

However he may have miscalculated as the falling cost of renewable energy will make it more attractive than coal, and there could be trade repercussions from Asia where climate change will be the most severe.

These Third World countries could also cancel plans to limit CO2 emissions because the wealthiest and greediest nation has decided to opt out for its immediate self interest.

It’s an act of war on the rest of us, with an extra three billion tonnes of CO2 more than Clinton would have allowed energising the climate and ruining our children’s future.