COP23 Opens With New Global Leadership Emerging Against Climate Change
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Last year, a golf course in Ireland owned by Donald Trump applied to build a sea wall against rising seas. In September, Trump's mansion on the Caribbean island of St. Martin was damaged by Hurricane Irma, the most intense storm to hit the U.S. since Katrina. Much of Trump's property empire in Florida could be underwater by the end of the century. Imagine Trump in one of his mansions, drenched, water swelling toward the ceiling, claiming he is standing in “fake sea.”
Of course, Trump isn't just some irrational property mogul: He leads the U.S., the world's second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China. And although he remains a steadfast denier of any of the problems associated with climate change, the facts tell a different story as extreme weather continues to ravage the U.S. – from wildfires in California to floods in Texas to “exceptional drought on the northern plains”. The U.S. Government Accountability Office warns that climate change will cost the U.S. trillions of dollars in the coming decades...
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