Our savior.

Via Daily Beast: (link fixed)

Is there any hope that the Trump administration will help fight climate change—or at least not make it worse?

So far, the signs are not good. As has been widely reported, one of America’s leading climate deniers, the fossil-fuel-funded non-scientist Myron Ebell, is heading Donald Trump’s transition team for the EPA. Ebell isn’t just the fox guarding the henhouse; he’s a wolf. Add to that the “Drill Baby Drill” mantra, which will subsidize oil production but not renewable energy, and there is reason to be extremely pessimistic.

And then, as if on cue, the news got worse. As the Washington Post reported, the North Pole is an astonishing 36 degrees warmer than usual at this time of year. Coming after 2015, the Earth’s hottest year on record, that will have devastating effects for polar ice caps, which are already in a death spiral; thinner polar ice causes warmer ocean water beneath, which causes thinner polar ice, which causes warmer ocean water beneath, which… you get the picture.

On the other hand, there are some reasons to hope. Let’s look at three of them, and give each of them a name: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mike Pence, and Newt Gingrich.
It’s time to stop complaining about “normalizing” Trump. The guy is our next president. More than 60 million people voted for him. Whatever he stands for may be evil, or visionary, or deluded, or outrageous—but it is now “normal,” descriptively speaking. And as Saul Alinsky wrote nearly 50 years ago, even radicals must deal with the world as it is, not as it should be.

That means climate activists need to talk with Trump. But who will he listen to?

Well, quite possibly another hugely famous person, like Leonardo DiCaprio, who has just released yet another excellent climate documentary that no one will watch.

Leo, it’s time for you to go to Washington (or Fifth Avenue, I guess). Many liberals will hate you for it, but put a safety pin on your lapel and get a meeting. Trump won’t listen to Bill McKibben, he won’t listen to the Union for Concerned Scientists, and he sure as hell won’t listen to me. But he might just listen to one of the highest-status celebrities of our time.