Trump Axes Key Climate Rule: Major Greenhouse Setback

https://holoceneclimate.com/temperature-versus-co2-the-big-picture.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Cenozoic_Ice_Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

we are still stuck in the deepest ice age since before complex life evolved, (Quaternary ice age) and almost all lives lost are due to cold, not warmth

https://ourworldindata.org/part-one-how-many-people-die-from-extreme-temperatures-and-how-could-this-change-in-the-future

Globally, cold deaths are 9 times higher than heat-related ones. In no region is this ratio less than 3, and in many, it’s over 10 times higher. Cold is more deadly than heat, even in the hottest parts of the world.

The myth is that climate was lovely during little ice age 1300-1850.

Reality is that crops would routinely freeze over before they had time to ripen, and famine was the norm, and europeans migrated to americas in a last attempt to stave off starvation

Sancho Trump is fighting against windmills! This will be reversed after he ends his mandate.

What will be difficult to reverse is the US lagging behind other countries for green technologies and products, for not having invested enough.

On 2/13/2026 at 12:41 PM, newnative said:

Really terrible, really dumb move so, of course, it comes from old, senile Trump who could care less what he is leaving for the future. What he is leaving is a mess--and maybe the death of the American auto industry.

Spouse and I recently visited Shanghai and it was a real eye-opener. All the motorcycles were electric and it looked like the majority of the autos in the center city area were some sort of electric--either all electric or hybrids. You could tell these models as they have green license plates and the gas cars still have blue plates.

It was great walking around the city as the traffic noise was so different from, say, Bangkok. So quiet! I really felt like I had stepped into a city 10 years in the future, but here to see today. It was almost eerie. Most of the blue license cars were American, European, and Japanese. Most of the green plates were Chinese brands.

Trump, and the American auto makers, are sticking their collective heads in the sand, ignoring what is clearly the future, while they retreat into the past. What I took away from my trip to Shanghai was a sense that the European, Japanese, and American auto makers need to step on the gas with their electric vehicles. Instead, the Americans, at least, are stepping on the brake. In China, all those cars with blue plates just looked so out-of-step. And, frankly, old--even the new ones. Sort of like a VHS tape next to a CD.

Here in Thailand, you see more and more electric vehicles on the road. We have an electric hybrid but our next car will definitely be all-electric. Yesterday, we were at Big C Extra (getting a very nice makeover, by the way) and there was a small Geely electric car on display. Price? About 430,000 baht for the base model with a range of around 390something. Nice, roomy, well-fitted interior for an economy car, with a big dashboard screen. If I was in the market for this type of small car, I'd be looking at, and likely buying, something like this and not a Toyota Yaris, Honda City, Nissan Almera, etc. All too dated. And, all of which are likely more expensive to buy and to run.

I'm a car buff and red license autos here tend to catch my eye. Lately, when I see one, more often than not it's a Chinese model--a BYD, a Jaecoo (the model that looks like a Range Rover seems to be super-popular), a Geely, an Aion, an Ora, an MG, a Deepal, a GWM, and others.

Fewer red-license Japanese models, it seems to me. And, I can see why. We love our BYD Sealion 6. We are saving at least 4000 baht a month on gas, while our electric bill hasn't gone up much. Usually our electric bill is around 4500 baht, so the gas savings almost covers the monthly electric bill. Plus, we saved about 700,000 baht by buying the BYD model instead of another Honda CR-V, our previous car. I wonder how many other sales Honda and Toyota have lost to buyers like us.

We did the same thing.

Had a Honda CRV and was probably going to get another one when I compared the new AWD CRV with the BYD SL7 AWD.

Couldn't justify that extra B 700000.

Love my SL7.

18 minutes ago, carlyai said:

We did the same thing.

Had a Honda CRV and was probably going to get another one when I compared the new AWD CRV with the BYD SL7 AWD.

Couldn't justify that extra B 700000.

Love my SL7.

We love our BYD SL6, too. Thailand's car buyers are so lucky now to have so many choices, with both all-electrics and electric-hybrids. And, so many at very reasonable prices.

On 2/13/2026 at 1:54 AM, Jim Waldron said:

Scrapping the “endangerment finding” doesn’t repeal the physics.

Greenhouse gases either trap heat or they don't. Decades of peer‑reviewed science says they do!

the Endangerment Finding defied science.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/climate-and-energy-experts-praise-trumps-endangerment-finding-repeal

39 minutes ago, candide said:

Sancho Trump is fighting against windmills! This will be reversed after he ends his mandate.

Its climate zealots that are fighting windmills

1 hour ago, newnative said:

We love our BYD SL6, too. Thailand's car buyers are so lucky now to have so many choices, with both all-electrics and electric-hybrids. And, so many at very reasonable prices.

BYD is likely sustainable, but be careful of smaller Chinese EV manufacturers which may well go bankrupt.

https://restofworld.org/2024/ev-company-shutdowns-china