Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science

WASHINGTON — President Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the term “global warming” into a punch line rather than a prognosis.

The Huntington Canyon coal-fired power plant in Utah.
The White House, already pursuing major rollbacks of
greenhouse-gas emission restrictions, is amplifying
its attack on fundamental climate-science 

Now, after two years spent unraveling the policies of his predecessors, Mr. Trump and his political appointees are launching a new assault.

In the next few months, the White House will complete the rollback of the most significant federal effort to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, initiated during the Obama administration. It will expand its efforts to impose Mr. Trump’s hard-line views on other nations, building on his retreat from the Paris accord and his recent refusal to sign a communiqué to protect the rapidly melting Arctic region unless it was stripped of any references to climate change.

And, in what could be Mr. Trump’s most consequential action yet, his administration will seek to undermine the very science on which climate change policy rests.

Read The New York Times story by Coral Davenport and Mark Landler  - “Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science.”

Schwarzenegger and Bill Nye tackle the 'stages' of climate change

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ill Nye teamed up with Arnold Schwarzenegger to confront climate denial head on in an episode of National Geographic’s Explorer, Bill Nye’s Global Meltdown.

Arnold Schwarzenger - head-to-head with
Bill Nye about climate change.

The episode opens with Bill Nye telling his psychiatrist, Arnold Schwarzenegger, “I don’t know, I’m just not myself lately. Everything seems so meaningless and empty.”

“Go on,” says Schwarzenegger. “I know the planet is getting hotter and hotter,” says Nye. “And I know we’re going to have forest fires and droughts and floods like you’ve never seen. We’re going to have storms and hurricanes and species are disappearing.”

Nye, exasperated, concludes, “Sometimes I just want to close my eyes and pretend it’s not happening.” Schwarzenegger’s prognosis: “It sounds to me like you are suffering from climate change grief.” Schwarzenegger tells Nye he is dealing with the first stage of grief: denial.

Read the EcoWatch story - “Bill Nye + Arnold Schwarzenegger Confront Climate Denial Head On.”