{"id":146144,"date":"2025-09-16T00:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146144\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:16:06","slug":"trump-lieutenants-tell-europe-to-stop-worrying-about-climate-change-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146144\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lieutenants tell Europe to stop worrying about climate change \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wright, a former oil man<\/a>, did not deny the existence of climate change, but said its effects had been exaggerated.<\/p>\n

“[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,” Wright said at a press conference on Friday, without citing the source of these statistics. <\/p>\n

“So we have got people very afraid of something that’s a real issue, but we overhyped it,” he said.<\/p>\n

He urged countries to stop subsidizing renewable energy because it was having little impact on emissions, but was costly for industry. <\/p>\n

In the U.K. earlier in the week he 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

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

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 have argued<\/a> green rules add additional costs that industry cannot afford.<\/p>\n

EU lawmakers are currently reviewing a proposal to slash rules<\/a> requiring companies to report on their impacts on the environment, and member countries are struggling to reach an agreement<\/a> on the EU’s 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[254,64,63,512,68,19165,10830,22279,2490,19161,13442,2572,75,186,64969,1695,27620,11973,19136,63315,16570,8146,128,44344,26484,4961,105,3586,1055],"class_list":["post-146144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-coal","tag-companies","tag-competition","tag-donald-trump","tag-electricity","tag-emissions","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-finance","tag-financial-stability","tag-industry","tag-intelligence","tag-joe-biden","tag-oil","tag-paris-climate-agreement","tag-regulation","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science","tag-stability","tag-steel","tag-tax","tag-technology","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}