I was going to make this a "Saturday Science" post, but it's more about the politics than the actual science. Now that the UN has issued a rather earth-shaking report on the effects of climate change and the speed with which they are happening, the Trump regime is . . . well, the consensus there seems be be "Report? What report?":
At least the Ignoramus in Chief is willing to admit that it might be happening:
While leaving himself an out -- I wonder when he's going to start calling climate scientists "enemies of the people".
Read the whole thing for a really grim picture of how Trump and his minions have gotten rid of anyone in the administration who might know what they're talking about.
Via Towleroad.
On Oct. 6, United Nations policy makers approved a report presenting a “dire” picture of the coming changes to the planet, including the extinction of coral reefs, spikes in extreme weather events like hurricanes or drought, and widespread food and water shortages that would multiply the risks of mass migration, political instability, and global war.
The report warned that the effects of global climate change could become irreversible by 2040, and that preventing them would require an immediate global effort, “unprecedented in terms of scale.”
But in the nearly two weeks since the report’s release, the federal government has avoided the subject or declined to discuss it at length.
A spokesperson from the New York headquarters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told The Daily Beast that she was unaware of the recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “What report?” she asked. “I haven’t heard of it.”
At least the Ignoramus in Chief is willing to admit that it might be happening:
When Trump visited Florida just days before it would face Michael, a storm even climate skeptic Rick Scott called “the worst hurricane the Florida panhandle has ever seen,” the president said only that he was aware of the IPCC’s publication.
“It was given to me,” he said, before noting that he wanted to look at “who drew it.” Later, Trump told journalist Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes that, although he would no longer deny climate change, he was not sure whether it was caused by human activity, and that it could “go back” on its own. When Stahl disagreed, Trump added: “You’d have to show me the scientists. Because they have a very big political agenda. Scientists also have a political agenda.”
While leaving himself an out -- I wonder when he's going to start calling climate scientists "enemies of the people".
Read the whole thing for a really grim picture of how Trump and his minions have gotten rid of anyone in the administration who might know what they're talking about.
Via Towleroad.
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