Climate scientists react with alarm to Trump win

9 November 2016, 3:11 pm

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Environmentalists and climate scientists are alarmed over the election of a US president who has called global warming a “hoax.”

Donald Trump’s win raises questions about whether America, once again, will pull out of an international climate deal. Many said it’s now up to the rest of the world to lead efforts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, while others hold out hope that Trump will change his stance on climate change and honor US commitments under last year’s landmark Paris Agreement.

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine says that as “the realities of leadership settle in, I expect he will realize that climate change is a threat to his people and to whole countries which share seas with the US.”

— AP