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Terence Corcoran: Climate politics and science run hot — and cold

The result is chaos and confusion as to the way forward

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Global climate policy seems to be dangling in unprecedented uncertainty, caught in the middle of intensifying conflict within and between politics and science. What follows is a random walk through the latest indicators that the way forward is far from clear.

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Last week the Trump administration pulled the plug on environmental policies aimed at controlling carbon emissions, a move condemned as a threat to life on Earth. Washington has also announced it will be withdrawing from two key United Nations climate agencies, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In Europe, the EU’s climate policies are under attack, with Germany — suffering from previous climate decisions that are........

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