Attack on climate action under Trump? It happened in Canada.

When Donald Trump becomes president in January, he will not be the first climate-change skeptic to take the reins of a major Western democracy.

In fact, he’ll be following a path trodden in recent years by leaders in two other English-speaking nations, Canada, and Australia.

Both Stephen Harper in Canada and Tony Abbott in Australia have voiced skepticism of climate change as an urgent challenge (sometimes verging, like Mr. Trump, into blunt denial of the issue’s validity). Both were heads of state in recent years, and the commonalities in their stories hint at what Americans could experience in the coming years  – what Trump might do on the environment, but also the limits on his power.

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