I check in at Real Climate once and awhile, but most of the posts there are of little interest to me.

However, David Archer just posted Trump carbon and the Paris agreement, which backs up everything I've said recently (and here) on about the trivial effect of Trump's election on the climate outlook. David is too polite to say "fucked", so he says "fracked."

The recent US election has prompted cries that the decision on Earth’s climate has now been irrevocably made, that the US has unilaterally decided to scrap the peak warming target from the Paris agreement of 1.5 oC. What do the numbers say? Is Earth’s climate now irrevocably fracked? The short answer is that, strictly speaking, the future of global climate would have been fracked even had the election gone the other way, unless stronger action to cut CO 2 emissions is taken, very soon.

To get the longer answer, read Archer's post.

Interestingly, and coincident with the post's appearance, comments seem to be broken at Real Climate. So I submitted a comment reaffirming what Archer wrote. It has not appeared. I contacted Real Climate about the problem. The post was up yesterday morning when I went over there.

24 hours and there are zero comments on Archer's post. And nobody noticed??? Hmmm... Could be a case of Head-up-your-ass Syndrome, which affects 99.99% of humanity.

Archer concludes his post with this paragraph.

If you are in a new-found panic about the future of Earth’s climate, know that what you’re feeling now would still have been almost as appropriate had the election gone the other way. The fight to defend Earth’s climate would still be just beginning.

Have a nice weekend.