President Trump quickly climate science programs through the government, considerably restricting the country’s ability to follow – not to mention the meeting – the climate crisis that takes place.
Scott Waldman reports for E & E News.
In short:
- Hundreds of federal climatologists have been dismissed or sidelined, and essential programs for monitoring global warming – NASA satellites in the United States of monitoring of the environmental protection climate – are dismantled.
- The administration justifies cuts as savings, but many targeted programs are inexpensive and essential for everything, forecasts of hurricanes to public health.
- New rules would give political names the power to decide what science the government can use, echoing Trump’s strategy at the time of the era of the data deletion which contradicts its message.
Key quote:
“They hate science because it leads to regulations, so they want to do everything they can to prevent science from being used to regulating.”
– Andrew Dessler, climatologist at Texas A&M University
Why this counts:
At the time when Cavid-19 was torn through the country, President Trump had a move: denying science, then silenced scientists. His administration has executed the same game book on climate change – and now the damage emerges. Stripped data, expertise and, often, the ability to communicate openly with the public, public health officials, emergency stakeholders and front -line communities are trying to navigate the climate crisis without a full card.
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