Trump Eliminates National Climate Assessment Panel
The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change, Washington Post
“The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning. … Administration officials are currently reviewing a scientific report that is key to the final document. Known as the Climate Science Special Report, it was produced by scientists from 13 different federal agencies and estimates that human activities were responsible for an increase in global temperatures of 1.1 to 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit from 1951 to 2010.”
– Third draft of the Climate Science Special Report (NOAA and NASA are the lead authors).
– Will Saying “Climate Change” Be Banned At All Government Agencies Or Just Some Of Them?
Might as well. All the others are collapsing or being disbanded also. Problem here is that a dark shroud of ignorance will come to flourish at an even greater rate than before. Dangerous and sad.
Fake news as they say. They might as well start saying “fake truth” since the effect is to deny any knowledge you want to basically. Colbert coined the term “truthiness”, but we’re beyond that now. It’s not everyone though and I think truth will rule the day again.
It’s not clear where the pressure to do this originated, but presumably it was simply Administration opposition to the Climate Science Report. Unlike the business advisory boards, this group was not established by Trump and members of the board were not resigning to protest Trump policy. It was simply the Trump Administration saying that it didn’t want scientific advice. There may well be support for the Administration action in the oil and coal industries but they are not saying it publicly.