Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris participate during an ABC News presidential debate at the National Constitution Center, Tuesday, Sept.10, 2024, in Philadelphia.Photo by Alex Brandon/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Harris vs. Trump: Where the candidates stand on the climate crisis

Observers say Harris is a leader that takes the issue seriously. Experts warn the first Trump administration was a devastating blow to environmental regulations and climate policy

by · National Post

WASHINGTON — Environmental experts are warning American voters that whoever takes the White House could set a path forward or pull the world backwards at a critical time for the climate crisis.

“The U.S. election will be one of the most consequential moments determining the whole world’s ability to limit warming,” said Caroline Brouillette, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada.

The case for doing (almost) nothing about climate changeHuman activity is causing drastic changes to the Earth’s climate, but that doesn’t mean we should upend our lives and stop emitting carbon altogether.Jesse Kline, 28 Sep 2023Conrad Black: Time for the climate insanity to stopWe must by now be getting reasonably close the point where there is a consensus for re-examining the issue of climate change and related subjects. For decades, those of us who had our doubts were effectively shut down by the endless deafening repetition, as if from the massed choir of an operatic catechism school, of the alleged truism: “98 per cent of scientists agree …” (that the world is coming to an end in a few years if we don’t abolish the combustion engine). Decades have gone by in which the polar bears were supposed to become extinct because of the vanishing polar ice cap, the glaciers were supposed to have melted in the rising heat and the impact of melting ice would raise ocean levels to the point that Pacific islands, such as former U.S. vice-president Al Gore’s oratorical dreamworld, the Pacific island state of Tuvalu, would only be accessible to snorkelers. There has been no progress toward any of this. Ocean levels have not risen appreciably, nothing has been submerged and the polar bear population…Conrad Black, 10 Aug 2024