Trump Removes Scientists From Climate Study

 

In another reckless and shortsighted move by the moronic Malignant Fascist, some 400 volunteer scientists working on the National Climate Assessment were dismissed on Monday. The Assessment is mandated under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, and provides for one to be done every four years, with the next one due in 2027. From CBS News:

"The National Climate Assessment is the basis for which federal, state, and local governments, as well as private companies, can prepare for climate change impacts, understand future projections of climate risk, as well as learn to adapt and mitigate those challenges.

An email sent to participants from the deputy director of services of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a federal office that organizes the publication of the report read, 'Thank you for your participation in the 6th National Climate Assessment ... we are now releasing all current assessment participants from their roles.'

According to the email, the 'scope' of the assessment is being 'reevaluated' as the Trump administration looks to comply with the law, something the White House also reaffirmed to CBS News."

As the report notes, this action was foreshadowed in the infamous right-wing "Project 2025" blueprint for a fascist America, which argued for "diverse" views -- i.e., climate change deniers -- in the document. You can be certain that whatever will be produced next will be a political screed with lots of faux "science" that minimizes the catastrophe effects of a fossil fuel-based economy. One prominent scientist put it this way:

"'The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists from their work on the nation's most important climate change report,' Steven Hamburg, chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, said in a statement. 'Refusing to study climate change won't make it go away – or help us deal with stronger storms, droughts, floods, wildfires and hotter temperatures, or help us stop emitting the pollution that is making it worse.'"  (our emphasis)

Not that he cares, the MF has betrayed future generations with his mindless and craven refusal to recognize the danger posed by a warming climate, which is wreaking havoc on this nation and the world.