May 29, 2019

Anna Murray 

The Trump administration ignores the scientific community’s saying that pumping carbon dioxide into the environment will be catastrophic for future generations. According to a new report from the New York Times, the Trump government plans to enter a dangerous, politically motivated new front for climate science warfare. 

The White House is doing all to ignore science and strip environmental regulations. US Geological Survey Director James Reilly has ordered to study the effects of climate change only up to 2040. Doing so will show relatively optimistic about the impact of climate change because the rate of warming is not expected to increase dramatically until the middle of this century. 

Withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement by Trump in August 2017 is only the beginning. The US Geological Survey not only turns a blind eye to life after 2040, but also excludes the “worst case” predictions in the federal reports on climate science.

The Trump administration refuses to acknowledge the most recent National Climate Assessment released last fall: “earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities”, “projected to intensify in the future” and “severity of future impacts will depend largely on actions taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the changes that will occur.”

A scientific review team will soon be set up by the Trump administration to challenge the findings of climate scientists and to discredit that climate change is a national security threat. The team will be led by former Princeton University professor William Happer. Happer, 79, does not believe humans take responsibility for climate change.

However, last October, a UN panel issued a report explaining that governments all over the world have to make “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” in order to avoid worldwide disasters caused by climate change.

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