Dave Roberts put his 2 cents in about Trump and climate change at Vox. The story is called Trump’s election marks the end of any serious hope of limiting climate change to 2 degrees.

For all its troubles, the US is an indispensable leader of the free world. Its official posture is now going to be hostile to climate action. Under those circumstances, the story about the world unifying to take bold, dramatic action on climate change, beyond what was pledged in Paris, has gone from unlikely to utter fantasy. The best climate activists can hope for is that Trump loses in 2020 in a giant Democratic wave that involves redoubled commitment to climate action. But even in that wildly optimistic case, the chance of limiting temperature to 1.5 or 2 degrees is, for all intents and purposes, gone. There’s going to be severe, dangerous climate change. Millions of people will suffer. The larger climate struggle is not over, of course. It never will be — 3 degrees is much worse than 2 and 4 much worse than 3. The fight goes on. But it is time to honestly acknowledge our failure and grapple with its consequences.

Honestly acknowledge our failure? Hmm...

We won’t avoid dangerous climate change. That’s what the US decided last night. There’s no point pretending otherwise.

The key phrase is emphasized above. Meeting the Paris targets has gone from "unlikely" to "utter fantasy." And yet, back in October, before Trump was elected, Dave Roberts wrote—

Are any of the countries that signed the Paris agreement taking the actions necessary to achieve that target? No. The US is not. Nor is the world as a whole. The actions necessary to hold to 2 degrees, much less 1.5 degrees, are simply outside the bounds of conventional politics in most countries.

I commented on that in Total Human Failure On Climate (DOTE, October 12, 2016).

So the world was failing to meet those Paris targets as of October, but now meeting them is "an utter fantasy" in November because Donald Trump won. Back in October, human failure was nearly universal because the Paris targets "are simply outside the bounds of conventional politics in most countries." And of course that list of countries includes, and always has, the United States.

Now, in November, per the usual Flatland magic, humanity's failures have disappeared. Now, and in the future, it will be Donald Trump's fault that humanity failed to meet the Paris targets.

I daresay that humans are hard-wired to "reason" like this. It's impossible for humans to acknowledge their generalized failures. They are wired to find someone to blame.

And now they've got Donald Trump and all those ignorant Americans who voted for him.

How convenient for them. Dave Roberts — Thanks for playing!