Friday 8 September 2017

Will Hurricane Harvey make Trump see the light?

I wonder, after his personal viaits to Texas to see the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, whether Donald Trump will begin to get nagging doubts somewhere in the periphery of his brain. Could this terrible hurricane and now Hurricane Irma tearing through the Caribbean and due to hit Florida tomorrow, have anything to do with climate change - the big CC question? Trump says he doesn't believe in climate change caused by human beings. He tore up the historic Paris Treaty which most of the world signed up to, acknowledging the dangers posed by man-made climate changes. He wants to go back to heavy-duty coal-burning power stations. But once he returned to the White Houe after his two visis to Texas, did he say to himself or perhaps to his daughter Ivanka: "Yer know, darling, there might be something in this climate change rubbish after all." Or, of course, he might have said: "Yeah well, these things are all cyclical, aren't they? There ain't nothing we can do about it. We're in the Lord's hands." Or something along those lines. But then you throw in the worst earthquake in Mexico for 100 years and there will be more to come. Then will the doubts set in? Trump hasn't got Steve Bannon in earshot anymore to convince him climate change is fake news, although the two are still regularly on the phone apparently. So I reckon Trump might just start to think intelligently about whether this planet of ours is heading towards a grim weather future. My children believe climate change is happening and that's good enough for me, although I believe it too. It's the younger generation whose future we should be worrying about, not your age group, Mr President. So, go to Florida when Irma causes devastation and then have a long chat with Ivanka. After that, ignore Bannon and get real about climate change for all our sakes.

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