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Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific…
Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific Report
fact
Trump White House = willingness to dismiss scientific findings and propose its own facts
BUT issued a scientific report that directly contradicts its own climate-change policies
Strange
bc this report will be used in court
How can the federal government acknowledge the seriousness of the problem ?
Trump
questioned/mocked the basic science of human-caused climate change
encourage the burning of coal and the increase of greenhouse gas pollution
why publish this report?/ Why policymakers didn’t try to soften the report’s conclusions ?
political calculus
Mr. Trump’s supporters = :red_cross: care that its findings are so at odds with Trump's statements and policies
1990 law
= the federal government is required to issue the climate assessment every four years
The latest version : new complexity in the political fight over regulations designed to fight climate change
Before that = :red_cross:
Trump : cancellation of these rules = centerpiece of his administration’s policy
directed the EPA to weaken the nation’s two major policies for curbing planet-warming pollution
restrict greenhouse emissions from vehicle tailpipes
limit greenhouse emissions from power plant smokestacks
Since the report is mandated by Congress
--> not issuing it would have been a violation of the law
--> editing the summary of its conclusions to play down the findings, is too risky politically and legally
So it is better to published and swept away by the news of the next day
ex : Black Friday
ex : Thanksgiving holiday
problem
disconnection with the reality
many of the authors expressed disappointment
“People are going to get hurt and die if we don’t change the policy.”