The Climate Trump Card: A Tale of Two Futures US President Donald Trump's assertion that the UN's climate projection, RCP 8. 5, was "WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
" sparked a conversation about the validity of this extreme scenario. However, behind Trump's inflammatory rhetoric lies a story of how climate action has already begun to shift the trajectory of global warming.
The notion that RCP 8. 5, once considered a worst case scenario, is now deemed implausible due to the emergence of climate policy and the rapid adoption of renewable energy.