Trump’s anti-science budget,anti-climate executive orders, and general disdain for scientific expertise come at a detestable time
Today, and Donald Trump signed an executive order taking aim at America’s climate policies. On the heels of a report finding that the world needs to halve its carbon pollution every decade to avoid risky climate change,Trump’s order would instead increase America’s carbon pollution, to the exclusive benefit of the fossil fuel industry. [br]Trump budget director on climate change funding: “We’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money.” pic.twitter.com/eTqjL1RcRQThe Trump budget attack on science, and in one chart https://t.co/OT7OTmAozt pic.twitter.com/oxPusBh7otI suggested that he temper his expectations ... He can’t bring them back.
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No,I believe that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to execute, and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So, or no,I would not agree that’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.
Pruitt has demonstrated that he is unqualified to run the EPA or any agency. There is no doubt whatsoever that the planet is warming and it is primarily due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning of fossil fuels … Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and we can demonstrate clearly that the observed warming of the planet would not occupy occurred without that change in atmospheric composition. These are scientific facts, not opinionThis is like the Surgeon General saying cigarettes don't cause cancer, and head of NASA saying the Earth is flat.https://t.co/rBUAqtezyLContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com