News Analysis: Cities, states and companies vow to meet U.S. climate goals without Trump. Can they?

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How close can U.S. cities, states and companies get to meeting the country’s abandoned climate goals without help from the federal government?

coalition, which advocates for a carbon-free economy. Companies can work toward that goal by purchasing renewable power, cleaning up their supply chains, and creating innovative technologies to reduce emissions.For one thing, it remains to be seen how many of these commitments will become reality.

And it will take even more aggressive cuts to meet the Paris accord’s goal of limiting warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial temperatures. At the moment, most countries’ current pledges — including the one made by the U.S. — are too weak to deliver that outcome. And until the government sets a baseline for climate action, there will be plenty of laggards, Stokes said.

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No

They should just ignore him and his idiocy, just like most sane folks already do.

No and they shouldn’t try.

How about just addressing the only warming that humans can actually feel - experience during the course of their lifetimes . . the Urban Heat Island Effect. It is dramatic, and deadly. The US is not warming during the past decade+ October set hundreds of cold and snow records

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