United States Presidential Election 2024

[BritDownUnder]

A few quotes about Trump from people who will have to engage with Trump in a few months.

David Lammy - UK Foreign Secretary
... described Trump as a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath”, a “tyrant in a toupée” and a “dangerous clown”.

Kevin Rudd - Australian Ambassador to Washington
... Trump is “destructive” and a “traitor to the west”
... “I believe things are, so precarious on these questions that the Republican Party, which enabled this guy to be elected, have a deep responsibility, a deep responsibility to accept responsibility for the consequence of their actions and begin the processes for one form or another of his removal by constitutional means,”
... “Donald, as we know, is not, a leading intellectual force,”
... Trump supporters are “angry white men”. And Latino and Black men maybe.

Ooops!

[Mark]

Trump is in the pocket of the fossil industries. It will a be a disaster for the renewables transition in the US, and for the global environment. In the long run that is the only change that matters.

I listened to his victory speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9fbbQ-aTo

The Oil and Gas bit is at about 20 mins....
Apparently it all belongs to Trump and Robert F Kennedy Jr should leave it alone !!
So..., it's going to be 'Drill Baby Drill'....

A terrible 4yrs for the climate....
The Paris Agreement and COP are now effectively dead ??

[UndercoverElephant]

The Paris Agreement and COP are now effectively dead ??

They were already dead. The only real difference is that now it is harder to deny that they are dead.

[BritDownUnder]

Problem is that the US has about 2% of oil and gas reserves but produces the most so they must be depleting their reserves much more quickly than their enemies. I do expect they will last another Trump term however. In my mind it makes sense to move to renewables quite quickly. USA has good wind reserves in the centre of the country and good grid connections to them so it makes sense to use them.

America's coal reserves are quite good too. The only other oil reserves they have are some shale oil / kerogen reserves in Utah and Wyoming that need heating in the ground before the oil can be extracted. The EROEI must be horrendous. Trump's successors will soon learn about the laws of physics and thermodynamics.

The COP seemed to be a hug fest whereby people who are professional non-profit organisation CEOs and Quango directors fly business class and on full expenses to talk about how bad things are with the climate every two years.

I expect a falling out with Musk in six months to a year.