Trump: 'Nobody Really Knows' If Climate Change Is Real

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SvennoJ said:

mrstickball said:
The irony is that with everything Trump says about climate change... With his endorsement of fast-tracking nuclear energy, especially Gen IV reactors, America will likely be a lot cleaner and better off than what it'd be if we continued to go to renewables + NatGas for baseline and backup systems.

True, Nuclear should be able to tide us over until fushion becomes economically viable.
But at the same time he wants to increase fracking and fossil fuels in general, competing nuclear and renewables out of the market.

You need fracking even for renewables. When wind/solar don't run, you need backups, and combined cycle gas plants are the most favored for that. Additionally, the lower gas prices go, the quicker coal gets phased out. Gas is at least 50% cleaner than coal, so it'd help quite a bit, among other things.