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How can it be that as the evidence about climate change gets stronger, politicians like Trump seem to get more ignorant?

There is increasing outrage in Italy against what campaigners are calling “Europe’s DAPL”, with thousands of people taking to the streets to campaign against the 3,500 kilometre, $45 billion, Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline (ECMP).

These are dangerous days for the climate. Not only do we have a climate denier in the White House, we have one in the Kremlin too.

The clean energy picture got a little bit brighter in Canada last week, after the 2017 budget started chipping away at the $1.6 billion in federal subsidies to oil and gas companies each year.

Like the misguided Medieval King Canute, who believed he could hold back the incoming tide, Trump yesterday tried to reign back President Obama’s climate legacy and derail the "unstoppable" clean energy transition, by denying climate science and pledging his allegiance to fossil fuels, notably coal.

There is a new climate villain in town. Later today, President Donald Trump will deliberately go from a climate denier to a climate destroyer.

For those fighting the KXL pipeline, there are important lessons to learn from recent events. First that Trump is defeatible. The man who has made a career of being an Alpha-male bully in business is now finding the reality of politics very different.

Later today, the Trump administration is expected to announce the approval of the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

As we await the photo-op of Keystone XL approval from the Trump Administration, here's a compilation of a few of our "best hits" for why Keystone XL must not be built.