Apparently so says a Berkeley professor – Does a Trump Administration mean lower CO2 emissions?

I suspect it will be negative—meaning that carbon-dioxide emissions will be lower under Trump than they would have been under Clinton. Trump appears to favor nuclear power and shale gas, and both reduce carbon emissions substantially, at least when compared to coal. If you are optimistic about solar and wind, then you can say that shale will not reduce emissions as much as solar and wind would have. I saw no similar support for these energy technologies from Clinton, who seemed to agree with the Obama approach: don’t oppose, but don’t reduce the impediments.

I’m not quite so optimistic that Trump will keep coal in the penalty box. Also, not being as alarmed regarding climate change as the Professor, it doesn’t bother me. That said, the future I see certainly includes a new generation of nuclear reactors.

h/t to Steven Hayward over at Powerline, not to mention he was the inaugural Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado.