We don’t need no stinkin’ climate change panel
Trump continues to do what he can to promote global warming.
Trump’s administration has disbanded a government advisory committee intended to help the country prepare for a changing climate.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established the committee in 2015 to help businesses and state and local governments make use of the next national climate assessment. The legally mandated report, due in 2018, will lay out the latest climate-change science and describe how global warming is likely to affect the United States, now and in coming decades.
The advisory group’s charter expired on August 20, and Trump administration officials informed members late last week that it would not be renewed.
Sure. It’s part of the swamp, isn’t it. Let’s throw it all out and keep using more and more carbon so that everything will go wrong that much sooner. Trump won’t be around for the famines and mass migrations and wars, so what does he care?
Richard Wright, a retired engineer who is serving on a climate panel organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers, laments the Trump administration’s decision to disband the climate advisory committee. He says the panel has already become a valuable mechanism to bring together federal scientists and outside professionals who handle tasks such as managing water resources, setting standards for construction and establishing communications networks.
“We found this committee a very effective way of communicating with the climate and weather community,” Wright says. “It would be a pity not to have it.”
Pfffffff. It doesn’t make any money. It doesn’t build huge shiny towers. It doesn’t play golf. What good is it?
The decision to let the advisory committee’s charter lapse is not the first time that the Trump administration has dismissed scientific advisers. In May and June, the EPA came under fire for dismissing dozens of scientists who were serving on the its Board of Scientific Counselors, which advises the EPA’s research arm. And Trump has not chosen a presidential science adviser to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where a number of positions remain empty.
Because scientists are losers. Only real estate profiteers know what needs to be done.
This may be one of those times where concerned state governments can get together and fund the continuation of the work the Trump-captured federal government is abandoning. They may not keep access to federal information sources, but since those are being muzzled and fired anyway, it may not be much loss under the circumstances.
States and cities are already having to step up to deal with foreign countries who can’t work with the Trump catastrophe, so it’d be a continuation of an emergency national government-in-internal-exile.