Axios: Trump intends to leave Paris climate accord

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Horrible. Among other things, climate change will stress water supplies and cause food shortages, leading to conflict and - yep - mass migration of the world's vulnerable as they are forced to become refugees. Refugees that Trump and Trump supporters hate and pummel with a passion. Truly a sick irony that perhaps Steve Bannon planned all along.

That said, there are three threads on this. Can the mods combine them into a "Trump withdraws from Paris" megathread?

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

Yes. Paris is symbolic (not as to say that symbols don't matter, they do). I don't think that staying vs leaving would change much of Trump's 'environment' politics.

The only think that is interesting (to me) is how voters will react to it.

It'll likely galvanize pro-climate action voters to resist the Trump administration even more. Already states are picking up the slack now that the federal government has abandoned us (see other thread).

On another note, where's Nuclear Elmo? This is the closest Trump has done to end humanity and life as we know it, only by carbon summer instead of nuclear winter.

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

Thank you Senator Scott, for gracefully bring us back to the topic at hand.

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Scarborough: "Bannon is the real president" after Paris withdraw

I wonder what Bannon's motivations for this (since he was in favor of the withdraw). He likely thinks that this withdraw is an effective way to implement his "economic nationalism," whatever that means. And since climate change will make (mostly non-white) developing world citizens worse-off, maybe Bannon wants another way to pummel them? Or maybe he hopes that the ensuing mass migrations will increase support for his xenophobic agenda.

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China Completes World’s Biggest Floating Solar Farm

This week, media welcomed the completion of what may well be the world’s largest floating solar farm, in the eastern Anhui province. The 40 MW installation sits on a flooded coal-mining town, which adds a kind of poetic element to the story – a shift away from coal and to solar and wind. The floating farm is the latest demonstration that China is serious about its green energy plans. Earlier this year, Beijing said it would splash US$361 billion on expanding the country’s renewable power capacity by 2020. By 2022, China should have 320 GW of wind and solar power capacity, along with 340 GW of hydropower.

Just to make the project seem more impressive, here's some pics: