As Democracy Now! broadcasts from the United Nations climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco, the U.S. special envoy on climate change, Jonathan Pershing, says no one from President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has reached out to him to discuss U.S. climate policy. This all comes as the World Meteorological Organization is projecting 2016 to be the warmest year on record, and Trump has vowed to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. “Legally he can’t, and politically it would be a disaster,” says economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. “If Donald Trump goes in the way that his rhetoric … has portrayed, we’re going to have a brawl in the United States.” Here is a direct video link.
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