{"id":372581,"date":"2025-03-28T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=372581"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:26:01","slug":"climate-collapse-in-52-glorious-days-common-sense-courtesy-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=372581","title":{"rendered":"Climate Collapse in 52 Glorious Days: Common Sense, Courtesy of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s hard not to chuckle while reading Bloomberg\u2019s opinion piece,\u00a0\u201cYears of Climate Action Are Being Demolished in Days by Trump.<\/a>\u201d One gets the sense that Mark Gongloff and Elaine He were typing furiously through a cascade of tears, their trembling hands barely able to clutch their reusable bamboo keyboards. Their anguish is palpable \u2014 and deeply entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the authors, \u201cnothing could have prepared us for the breadth or intensity of the assault on climate action that Trump has unleashed.\u201d Ah yes, the horror of returning to basic national sovereignty and energy affordability! Apparently, the unleashing of logic and cost-benefit analysis is too much for the climate-industrial complex to handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article catalogs 82 actions across 20 government bodies in Trump\u2019s first 52 days. Yes, 52 days. That\u2019s one climate heresy every 15 hours. Magnificent. It\u2019s almost poetic how efficiently bureaucratic bloat, pseudoscientific hand-waving, and fiscal recklessness were being scaled back. Bloomberg calls this a \u201cclimate onslaught\u201d; most Americans would call it a long-overdue spring cleaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few gems that made the writers gasp in horror:<\/p>\n\n\n\n