China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin is showing Trump the receipts to disprove arguably the most famous statement the President-elect has made on the subject of climate change.

At the U.N. climate conference in Marrakech on Wednesday, Liu pointed out that the United States supported the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and global climate talks before China was even aware of it.

The best part: It was the GOP who first pushed for reducing carbon emissions in order to prevent catastrophic climate change.

“If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s,” Liu told reporters at COP22, according to Bloomberg. “That’s why I hope the Republican administration will continue to support this process.”

Trump, however, has threatened to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement. After last week’s election, domestic, international, and military leaders have all urged him to reconsider, but their pleas are not likely to be heard: Trump will be the only world leader who does not believe in the existence of global climate change.

The chances that activists can defeat construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) may have dimmed since last Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean the movement to stop it has slowed. Rather, the movement went national on Tuesday, with 300 rallies across the country demanding that President Obama do whatever is in his power to halt construction on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s ancestral land.

Tuesday’s national day of action to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline drew tens of thousands of people, according to organizers. In Washington, D.C., hundreds gathered around the Army Corps of Engineers headquarters as “water protectors” occupied the entrance. The crowd marched to the White House, where Sen. Bernie Sanders echoed a growing demand among DAPL protesters.

“We say to President Obama, in any and every way you can, stop the pipeline,” he said. “If there are other approaches, such as declaring Standing Rock a federal monument, let’s do that.”

Read Grist’s on-the-ground coverage of the DAPL fight. 

There’s so much to stomach about the consequences of last week’s election. Between the racial persecution fanned by Trump supporters and promises to put a climate denier at the head of the EPA, what do you focus on?

You have to understand how they affect each other. A good starting point: The Du Bois Review published a collection of scholarly papers on a range of topics connected to environmental justice.

This edition of the journal explores everything from inadequate sanitation infrastructure for non-white people to inferior air quality for black and Latinos to countering the myth that Appalachian coal workers are all white.

If you pick one, read David Pellow on Black Lives Matter’s role within the environmental justice movement. He argues that environmental racism might be better conceptualized as a form of state violence that devalues and destroys black life. In other words: The harmful air and water contamination that disproportionately affect non-white communities is the same class of institutionalized brutality targeted by the Black Lives Matter movement.

That’s not all Pellow has to say on the matter, of course. You can read the entire issue of the Du Bois Review free online for the month of November.

Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso will succeed current Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Chair James Inhofe in the next term, Bloomberg BNA reports.

Inhofe, who is reaching his term limit as committee chair, is a climate change denier who once threw a snowball on the floor of the Senate in an attempt to prove that climate change isn’t real.

Barrasso is not likely to be much more of an advocate for the environment than his predecessor: He has voted against nearly every pro-planet bill since joining the Senate in 2007, earning a lifetime League of Conservation Voters score of 9 percent (Inhofe scored 5 percent).

Barrasso isn’t alone in his climate denial: President-elect Trump, who has said climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese, is the only world leader to not accept the science on climate change.

And it’s just in the nick of time, since President-elect Trump has promised to repeal all of President Obama’s climate regulations.

This rule, which will be gradually phased in, requires drilling operators to halve the natural gas that is flared off from new and existing wells, limit venting from storage tanks, inspect for leaks, and so on. DOI projects that the rule should cut methane emissions up to 35 percent.

Methane is an extremely powerful heat-trapping gas. With the the increase in natural gas and oil drilling that is the fracking boom, methane leakage from wells and pipelines has also skyrocketed. A crackdown on these leaks was part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.

The new rule doesn’t govern private land, where most drilling takes place. The Environmental Protection Agency developed rules limiting methane leakage from new wells on private land. Hillary Clinton proposed to follow up on that with a rule for existing wells on private land.

Trump will not do that. But, now that the public lands rule is finalized, undoing it would require a new rule-making process, subject to legal challenge.

The Great Plains lost 3,686,960 acres that year; in contrast, the Brazilian Amazon lost 1.4 million, as the World Wildlife Fund points out.

The WWF calculates that an area the size of Kansas has been converted to row crops since 2009. That puts monarch butterflies — along with many other species of birds, plants, and insects — at risk.

“America’s Great Plains are being plowed under at an alarming rate,” said WWF’s Martha Kauffman in a statement. “Centuries old, critical prairie habitat that’s home to amazing wildlife and strong ranching and tribal communities is rapidly being converted to cropland and most people don’t even realize it.”

Ultimately, there are just two ways to stop conversion of land to agriculture: Reduce demand (i.e. eat less meat, use less biofuel), or grow more food in less space. More here.