03/29/2017 - US President Trump recently signed an executive order to roll back US climate policies. "Donald Trump's attempt to turn the US into a Jurassic Park run by dinosaur energy will eventually fail," comments Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
"However, it will hamper domestic climate action aiming at reducing emissions for a while," says Schellnhuber. "Internationally though, it will most probably close the ranks among the climate protection actors who will see Trump's intervention as a wake-up call for transformation. Not least, the decree will backfire on the US economy in its quest for global competitiveness."
Weblink to New York Times coverage of Trump's decision: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/climate/trump-executive-order-climate-change.html?ref=todayspaper
Weblink to a new study on how climate change is linked to extreme weather also in the US: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/weather-extremes-humans-likely-influence-giant-airstreams
