Trump Administration To Mold Climate Report Into Pure Propaganda

In a week of record flooding and tornado outbreaks, we find that the Trump administration wants to undermine the next National Climate Assessment.

According to the New York Times, the Trump administration plans on curtailing the projections used in the evaluation. (Hear no evil, see no evil...) This, of course, has the effect of making things sound better than they are, since the worst effects won't be felt until after 2040.

"What we have here is a pretty blatant attempt to politicize the science — to push the science in a direction that's consistent with their politics," Philip B. Duffy, president of the Woods Hole Research Center, told the Times. "It reminds me of the Soviet Union."

Mr. Trump is less an ideologue than an armchair naysayer about climate change, according to people who know him. He came into office viewing agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency as bastions of what he calls the “deep state,” and his contempt for their past work on the issue is an animating factor in trying to force them to abandon key aspects of the methodology they use to try to understand the causes and consequences of a dangerously warming planet.

I don't really care which kind of stupid and ruthless he is. I just want him to stop -- or be stopped.

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