11 June, 2017

5 Shades of Climate Denial, All on Display in the Trump White House

Whether dismissing global warming as a hoax, questioning humanity's role in it, exaggerating the unknowns, playing down the urgency of action, or playing up the costs, President Donald Trump and his team have served up every flavor of climate denial.

We developed a guide to what the science says about the five types of
climate denial we've heard from Donald Trump and his team.
Behind Trump are Vice President Mike Pence, EPA Administrator
Scott Pruitt, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry.
Although the arguments variedas if they were different shades or stages of denialthey all served the same purpose: to create an exaggerated sense of dispute in order to bolster a case against decisive climate action. The latest gambit is to avoid the subject entirely.

In his announcement last week that he would pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, Trump didn't bother addressing temperature trends, carbon concentrations, sea level rise, extreme weather or changing wildlife and vegetation patterns, the kinds of climate change information that his administration has also been scrubbing from government websites. He certainly didn't talk about the 2-degree Celsius goal of the Paris accord or the carbon budget for keeping that goal within reach. Trump didn't even use the words "climate change."


Read the Inside Climate News story - “5 Shades of Climate Denial, All on Display in the Trump White House.”

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