{"id":422427,"date":"2026-01-21T18:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=422427"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:17:54","slug":"nyt-goes-full-witchcraft-cites-an-academic-declaring-trump-will-cause-bad-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=422427","title":{"rendered":"NYT goes full witchcraft, cites an academic declaring Trump will cause bad weather!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Climate Depot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Admin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet – The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In recent days his administration has slammed the door on every possible avenue of global cooperation on the environment. At the same time, it is sending the message that it wants the world to be awash in fossil fuels sold by America, no matter the consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under President Trump, the United States has become the only nation to renege on a pledge to try to keep warming to 1.5 degrees. Its actions will make the global fight harder, scientists said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmissions will be higher,\u201d warned Justin S. Mankin, an associate professor at Dartmouth College who researches climate variability. \u201cTrump\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions will cause Trump\u2019s heat waves, Trump\u2019s droughts, Trump\u2019s floods, and Trump\u2019s wildfires.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe science is clear that every action matters and every ton of carbon matters,\u201d said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and professor at Texas Tech. \u201cThere\u2019s a price to pay for every ton of carbon we produce, and that price is being added to our global debt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blaming bad weather\/hurricanes on Trump and\/or \u2018global warming\u2019 is a throwback to medieval witchcraft \u2013 Book Excerpt<\/a> \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have We Advanced since the Middle Ages?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witch hunts increased during the Little Ice Age
The Aztecs had one advantage over our climate experts\u2014they realized the sun was responsible for global warming
A University of Cincinnati professor blamed the rise of Hitler on global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Princeton Professor Emeritus of Physics William Happer in 2017 drew parallels to today\u2019s man-made climate change claims. \u201cI don\u2019t see a whole lot of difference between the consensus on climate change and the consensus on witches. At the witch trials in Salem the judges were educated at Harvard. This was supposedly 100 per cent science. The one or two people who said there were no witches were immediately hung. Not much has changed,\u201d Happer quipped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Note: According to The Salem Witch Trial judges: \u201cFive of the nine judges had attended Harvard, though only William Stoughton, Samuel Sewall and Nathaniel Saltonstall had graduated.\u201d \u2014 On 27 May 1692, Sir William Phips, the newly appointed royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, appointed nine of the colony\u2019s leading magistrates to serve as judges for the newly created Court of Oyer and Terminer. When Phips sailed into Boston from London on 14 May, there were already 38 people in jail for witchcraft, and the accusations and arrests were growing daily. One of the governor\u2019s first official acts was to create this special court to deal with the growing crisis\u2026Governor Phips carefully chose men he described as \u201cpersons of the best prudence.\u201d\u2026 All nine were members of the Governor\u2019s Council, and most of them had served as judges for many years. Many had even been on panels that had heard previous witchcraft cases.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In recent days his administration has slammed the door on every possible avenue of global cooperation on the environment. 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