Bloomberg Audio Studios Podcasts Radio news Since taking office in January,
President Trump has set in motion a series of sweeping rollbacks on US Climate policy.
The president slashing funding to combat climate change.
President Trump on social media is again calling for FEMA to be shut down.
The latest firings hitting noaa, the nation's top weather and climate agency.
Hundreds let go.
And on Tuesday, the few times Trump mentioned climate policy in an address to Congress,
he didn't hold back.
I terminated the ridiculous green news scam.
I withdrew from the unfair Paris climate accord,
which was costing us trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying.
His remarks highlighted the ways his administration has dismantled efforts to combat climate change.
And they were the culmination of weeks of actions that pushed climate change into the background at a time when governments around the world have lagged behind their stated environmental goals.
2024 was the first year when for the entire year, the world averaged over 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Akshat Rathi is a senior climate reporter for Bloomberg News and host of the Zero podcast.
Any amount of warming, any 0.1 degrees Celsius of warming makes the the planet worse.
And what happens when Trump or other countries start to pull away from these targets is
that we start to get more warming
because we move away from the focus of trying to get more clean energy and rely less on fossil fuels.
So just how did we get here?