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Humanity has eight years to get climate crisis under control – and Trump’s plan won’t fix it

In Donald Trump’s world – laid bare during Thursday night’s final presidential debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden in Nashville – fossil fuels are “very clean”, the US has the best air and water despite his administration’s extensive regulatory rollbacks, and the country can fix climate change by planting trees.

But according to the harsh realities being laid out by climate scientists, Trump’s world does not exist.

Humanity has just eight years to figure out how to get climate change under control before the future starts to look drastically worse – multiple-degree temperature increases, global sea-level rise, and increasingly disastrous wildfires, hurricanes, floods and droughts. Doing so will mean that unless there is a technological miracle, humans will at some point have to stop burning oil, gas and coal.

“We’re told by all the leading scientists in the world we don’t have much time,” Biden said. “We’re going to pass the point of no return within the next eight to 10 years. Four more years of this man … will put us in a position where we’ll be in real trouble,” the former vice-president said.

Eight? What happened to 12? All the climate cultists were saying we had 12 years left in 2018, so, that would mean we have 10 years to avoid doom, right?

But perhaps the most interesting point was when the candidates were asked what they would do for people – often people of color – who are living next to polluting gasoline refineries and petrochemical plants.

Trump pressed Biden: “Would you close down the oil industry?”

And Biden, who might typically steer clear of such a politically controversial question, said he would.

“I would transition from the oil industry, yes,” Biden said.

The UK Guardian is cheering this, as are so many Warmists this morning. Joe had to backtrack after the debate

Speaking to reporters after the debate, Biden insisted the fossil fuel industry wouldn’t “be gone” until 2050.

“We’re not getting rid of fossil fuels. We’re getting rid of the subsidies for fossil fuels, but we’re not getting rid of fossil fuels for a long time,” Biden said.

But, getting rid of fossil fuels is exactly what his hardcore base wants, including natural gas, yet, most, including Joe and the UK Guardian, refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels. Joe sure wasn’t reticent about using fossil fuels while he was Vice President, nor was Obama.

Eight years, people. And, then when we pass that 8 years, they’ll proclaim we have another 12 years to Do Something, and none in the media will point out that the climate cultists were wrong the first time.