{"id":66476,"date":"2025-09-15T23:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66476\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:57:07","slug":"trump-lieutenants-tell-europe-to-stop-worrying-about-climate-change-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66476\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lieutenants tell Europe to stop worrying about climate change \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wright, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/16\/chris-wright-energy-secretary-trump-00189456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a former oil man<\/a>, did not deny the existence of climate change, but said its effects had been exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]oday your chance of dying from [an] extreme weather event is the lowest we have in recorded history, and 20 percent of kids record nightmares about climate change,&#8221; Wright said at a press conference on Friday, without citing the source of these statistics. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we have got people very afraid of something that&#8217;s a real issue, but we overhyped it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged countries to stop subsidizing renewable energy because it was having little impact on emissions, but was costly for industry. <\/p>\n<p>In the U.K. earlier in the week he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cqlz5p314z0o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the BBC<\/a> artificial intelligence would help solve climate change by cracking the problem of harnessing nuclear fusion to generate electricity in a decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has among the most stringent climate rules in the world, but is under pressure to wind these back, both internally and from other countries like the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>European industry is struggling with high energy costs and intense competition from China, and business groups and politicians from the center to the far right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/greenwashing-law-brussels-european-commission-political-explosion-anti-green-push\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have argued<\/a> green rules add additional costs that industry cannot afford.<\/p>\n<p>EU lawmakers are currently reviewing a proposal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/most-eu-firms-exempted-from-green-reporting-under-proposed-omnibus-bill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slash rules<\/a> requiring companies to report on their impacts on the environment, and member countries are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/vote-on-eus-2040-climate-target-canceled-after-biggest-countries-block-decision\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struggling to reach an agreement<\/a> on the EU&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/739972\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2040 emissions target<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wright, a former oil man, did not deny the existence of climate change, but said its effects had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[289,381,442,10982,6930,428,356,18,4625,12695,7520,440,1729,14215,19,4286,3113,17,10233,9951,46619,11994,961,133,11833,32108,4520,82,393,384],"class_list":{"0":"post-66476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-coal","12":"tag-companies","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-electricity","17":"tag-emissions","18":"tag-energy","19":"tag-environment","20":"tag-finance","21":"tag-financial-stability","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-industry","24":"tag-intelligence","25":"tag-ireland","26":"tag-joe-biden","27":"tag-oil","28":"tag-paris-climate-agreement","29":"tag-regulation","30":"tag-renewable-energy","31":"tag-science","32":"tag-stability","33":"tag-steel","34":"tag-tax","35":"tag-technology","36":"tag-united-kingdom","37":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}