President Trump is a product of the climate apocalypse cycle—does Watt support it?

Article by Eric Worrell

Apparently Trump should tell voters how climate change is driving inflation.

The “doomsday cycle” of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning

Published: December 9, 2024 11:21 pm (AEDT)
Laurie Laybourn Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Global Systems, University of Exeter
James Dyken, Associate Professor of Earth System Science, University of Exeter

There is a widespread belief that geopolitics hinders climate action. From the war in Ukraine to trade tensions, it seems like every year another pressing priority emerges, diverting attention from the urgency of taking action on climate change.

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This is a vicious cycle. Climate change undermines climate action by destabilizing geopolitics. This will exacerbate climate change, mean more geopolitical instability, and more. The risk is that this “doomsday loop” operates faster and faster, eventually destroying our ability to phase out fossil fuels quickly enough to avoid the worst climate consequences.

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climate inflation

The recent election of Donald Trump provides a potential case study in how this doom cycle can begin to emerge.

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In the years leading up to the election, the United States experienced its highest inflation rate in more than four decades. Although inflation eventually fell, many Americans were unable to cope with the sharply higher prices. Trump made inflation a major focus of his campaign, and it clearly played a role in his victory. He did not mention how climate change is increasingly a factor driving inflation.

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The current link between climate change, inflation and politics is a “weak signal” of how the consequences of climate change will frustrate our collective ability to address its causes. In a recent academic paper, we called this risk “derailment risk”—the risk that the world ultimately fails to stay on track to rapidly phase out fossil fuels and avoid the worst climate consequences.

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Learn more: https://theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-of-climate-change-and-geopolitical-instability-is-beginning-244705

I cannot deny the fact that thousands of children's understanding of the world will be shaped by these people.

On the one hand, they claim that the impact of climate change on inflation is being ignored. Then they immediately go on to say that climate change is a weak signal.

Of course, if the signal for climate-driven inflation is weak, it will be ignored. There are obviously other causes for the inflation that most people are currently experiencing, such as skyrocketing energy prices caused by climate activists' punitive political attacks on fossil fuel companies.

The obvious follow-up question is, will global warming be a strong signal on any time scale that we care about?

A quick look at Earth's ancient history tells us that climate change is unlikely to be a concern on any reasonable time scale.

First, the Earth is currently too cold, not too hot. We are all locked into the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which began 34 million years ago and shows no signs of releasing its effects. The Earth thrived in much warmer conditions and with much higher carbon dioxide levels than today. There is considerable evidence that the Earth's biomass-carrying capacity has been significantly reduced during the current ice age compared with previous warm periods.