Shitstain Reportedly "Enraged" By National Climate Assessment, But "Thinks" Things Will Cool Again
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With his new platform on the National Security Council, Happer will reportedly attempt to question scientific findings in the government’s own National Climate Assessment (NCA), released by the Trump administration last fall. The assessment, written by hundreds of scientists and researchers across the federal government, was exceedingly clear that climate change is already impacting every corner of the United States, and that doing nothing will cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
Those findings reportedly enraged Trump, who “has told aides that he thinks the Earth’s climate will begin cooling again, so there is no need to act forcefully before then.” Thus, his top officials are now seeking out their own version of science.
Sources told E&E that Happer and others considered using federal researchers, but ultimately elected to tap “outside researchers who have legitimate academic credentials but who disagree with established climate science.” They include John Christy and Judith Curry, both of whom have long worked in opposition to the vast majority of climate scientists to claim humans have only played a minor role in driving global warming.
The NCA’s alarming findings generated significant attention (despite its release over the Thanksgiving holiday), forcing members of the administration to downplay its own report. Trump and other top officials claimed the findings were exaggerated — a suggestion that is “simply false,” according to Michael Wehner, a senior staff scientist in the Computational Research Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and assessment author. “This is probably the most highly reviewed document of all time,” he told ThinkProgress last December.
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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-climate-science-alternate-reality-253ffd505053/
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