Hello and welcome back to Backchat. If you think of the Nature podcast as a hard-hitting feature-length documentary, then Back-Chat is the comment section under a YouTube video.

This month, what does Donald Trump mean for America's relationship with science? And what impact will you have on the climate? Plus, how does nature do politics?

I'm Adam Levy, and our three chatters this week are Jeff Tollifson on the line from New York.

I'm a reporter in New York City, and I cover climate and energy issues for the magazine.

We also have Lauren Morello online from Washington, D.C.

I am Nature's US News Editor.

And we have David Adam, who's in the studio with me in London.

Hello, and I look after the editorials pages. Coming up in the show, with little fanfare or

announcement, the United States of America held a presidential election. They certainly kept that one

quiet. And to the surprise of many, Donald Trump won and is now President-elect.

Despite his reality TV experience, Donald Trump has been criticised for having a loose relationship with scientific realities.

So what does President Trump mean for American research, and how will this affect the rest of the globe?

Speaking of the globe, it's still warming.

2016 is projected to be the hottest year on record.

The previous hottest was all the way back in last year, 2015.

There's been a climate meeting in Morocco this month, but the real climate news is, yes,

I'm afraid so, Donald Trump again.

If Donald Trump abandons America's climate goals, how will other countries respond? Will the Paris climate deal survive? And finally,

after all that talk about politics, we'll talk about how we talk about politics. What does nature's

audience expect? And is this actually what we provide? And how do we decide when it's okay for nature to have an opinion about something?

So before we turn our attention to the fallout of the U.S. election, Lauren, what was it actually like to cover it on the night?

The one thing that almost every American could agree on is that we kind of just

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