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May 28, 2019

Trump Admin Escalates Multi-Pronged Attack on Climate Science
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The New York Times is reporting the Trump administration is ramping up
its assault on climate science through a coordinated multi-agency
effort. The National Climate Assessment will reportedly remove any
worst-case scenario projections in upcoming reports, as well as set up a
climate change review panel that would "question [the assessment's]
conclusions."

In addition, the National Security Council under John Bolton has also
been told to remove references to climate change in speeches and public
statements, and the U.S. Geological Survey will no longer project the
impact of climate change through the end of the century, but stop at the
year 2040.

One of the architects of the Trump administration's climate policy is
William Happer, a known climate science denier who once compared the
fight against climate change to the Holocaust, saying, "The demonization
of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under
Hitler."


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