schmidlap
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Of course, ones hope so, but Trump has been resolute and relentless in his denial and defiance of accepted science, especially medical and environmental. He dismisses experts in every academic discipline if their empirical data conflicts with his irrational dogma.
Putting aside the comfort that human biology affords us in this matter, the cost of imposed and enforced ignorance in anthropogenic climate change will be monumental, compounded by the human suffering that will, inevitably, result from Trump’s contempt for science and love of dirty fuels.
There is virtual global consensus among the most qualified in climatology, but that expert unanimity is treated with contempt by Trump because many of those experts are foreign, from all parts of the globe, and acknowledged by every other nation on earth.
Putting aside the comfort that human biology affords us in this matter, the cost of imposed and enforced ignorance in anthropogenic climate change will be monumental, compounded by the human suffering that will, inevitably, result from Trump’s contempt for science and love of dirty fuels.
There is virtual global consensus among the most qualified in climatology, but that expert unanimity is treated with contempt by Trump because many of those experts are foreign, from all parts of the globe, and acknowledged by every other nation on earth.
When the Trump regime declared two weeks ago that it would largely disregard the economic cost of climate change as it sets policies and regulations, it was just the latest step in a multi-pronged effort to erase global warming from the American agenda.
But Trump is doing more than just turning a blind eye to the fact that the planet is growing hotter. He is weakening the country’s capacity to understand global warming and to prepare for its consequences.
The administration has dismantled climate research, firing some of the nation’s top scientists, and gutted efforts to chart how fast greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere and what that means for the economy, employment, agriculture, health and other aspects of American society. The government will no longer track major sources of greenhouse gases, data that has been used to measure the scale and identify sources of the problem for the past 15 years.
“We’re not doing that climate change, you know, crud, anymore,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins [a Trump sycophant with no climatological qualifications] told Fox Business on May 8…
Climate and environment updates:
Climate change adds month of extreme heat for 4 billion people
"She called science 'crud!'
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Climate change adds month of extreme heat for 4 billion people
"She called science 'crud!'
I like that!"
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