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How bad will a Trump president be for the climate?

There's a lot to be hopeful about what gives you that hope.

Hi, I'm John Glyn Hill, and we get a lot of calls to the Explain It to Me hotline.

And quite a few have been from listeners wondering, what's going on with climate change?

We know that President Donald Trump is a climate skeptic,

and he's been doing a lot in his three months back in office to slow down the climate progress

that's been made. So where does that leave us now? To answer this question, I brought in a colleague,

someone whose job it is to think about the changing climate and who knows how to

cover it in a way that doesn't make us want to throw up our hands and despair.

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