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Science is illuminating but it can and has been used as a tool of deception by interest groups.

The good news got pretty much drowned out this month:

Yes, 2016 is on track to become the hottest year on record, but thankfully also the third year in a row to see relatively flat growth in global greenhouse gas emissions.

With global economic growth on the order of 3 per cent a year, we may well have turned a corner towards a sustainable climate economy.
The bad news, of course, is that the world’s wealthiest nation, home to many of the scholars scrambling to reverse global warming, has elected a new president with little or no interest in the topic. Or an active disinterest.

Mr Donald Trump is surrounding himself with advisers who are likely to do little to challenge his notion of climate change as a Chinese hoax. People like…