Trump Plays Games While Animal Populations Careen Around The World
According to a new scientific analysis published just yesterday, if humanity goes along with Donald Trump’s policy of burning all the petroleum we can get out hands on, the planet’s atmospheric temperature will increase between 14 and 19 degrees – CELSIUS. That would turn the tropics into deadly deserts, and make the Arctic warm enough for banana trees to grow in.
We don’t need to wait for that future to worry, though. The effects of climate change are already leading to extreme ecological changes. As populations of large vertebrate marine predators plummet, cephalopod populations are booming to fill in the gap. A third of North American bird species face extinction due to climate change and other impacts from human industrial activities. Florida’s coral reefs are falling apart because of climate change, which increases the likelihood of coral bleaching by 17500 percent. Desert animals and plants are dwindling in their natural ranges.
NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt has suggested that so much of this year has already seen record heat that there is a 99 percent chance that, globally, 2016 will be the hottest year on record.
So, what is Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, prepared to do about it? Donald Trump’s business acknowledges that climate change is real, and wrote, in a request for a permit to build a sea wall to protect the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Ireland in County Clare, that “If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland. In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring.”
As a politician, however, Donald Trump insists that climate change is nothing but a hoax that was invented by the Chinese government.
Climate change is the largest security and economic threat the United States faces, but Donald Trump refuses to take it seriously. That’s just one more reason that Trump is unsuitable to become the next President of the United States.