The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change
Source: The Washington Post
The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the governments climate analysis into long-term planning.
The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment which includes academics as well as local officials and corporate representatives expires Sunday. On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations acting administrator, Ben Friedman, informed the committees chair that the agency would not renew the panel.
The National Climate Assessment is supposed to be issued every four years but has come out only three times since passage of the 1990 law calling for such analysis. The next one, due for release in 2018, already has become a contentious issue for the Trump administration.
Administration officials are currently reviewing a scientific report that is key to the final document. Known as the Climate Science Special Report, it was produced by scientists from 13 different federal agencies and estimates that human activities were responsible for an increase in global temperatures of 1.1 to 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit from 1951 to 2010.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/20/the-trump-administration-just-disbanded-a-federal-advisory-committee-on-climate-change/
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,111 posts)she gave a fucking speech once.
Now, the human race will DIE
You stupid fucking ASSHOLES
I cant fucking BELIEVE how stupid
greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)This news shouldn't surprise me, given his repeated denials that climate change is real.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts).......any reference to global warming or the fact that it's anthropogenic in cause.
freddyvh
(276 posts)it took this long?
thought this would have been one of the first things he did
riversedge
(70,215 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)the spoiled brat trump wants to take his revenge out on everything and everyone. He does have an "open sore". He is very unstable.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)gravity in the blue districts of the country. We're gonna be all flying around and shit. Super inconvenient!
I'm not making light of him disbanding the committee, just their notion that they can alter the laws of physics with denial.
riversedge
(70,215 posts)from the OP-there is an embedded link
.............While many state and local officials have pressed the federal government for more concrete guidance on how to factor climate change into future infrastructure, President Trump has moved in the opposite direction. Last week, the president signed an executive order on infrastructure that included language overturning a federal requirement that projects built in coastal floodplains and receiving federal aid take projected sea-level rise into account.While many state and local officials have pressed the federal government for more concrete guidance on how to factor climate change into future infrastructure, President Trump has moved in the opposite direction. Last week, the president signed an executive order on infrastructure that included language overturning a federal requirement that projects built in coastal floodplains and receiving federal aid take projected sea-level rise into account.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)...being subscription only.
Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)North Carolina passed a law to say sea level predictions could only be based on previous Historical levels. Which means if the tide hasn't gone "this high" it can't go any higher (by state statute). This means flood and weather insurance, environmental regulations or flood mitigation goals cannot by law take into account likely rises in sea level, or predictable increases storm frequency, intensity, and density (how much rain will fall in the storm path).
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Stating that the ocean is always at sea level.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)I'm amazed they ever tried to form a "federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment".
They'd just ignore it anyway, and redact any words that they didn't like, such as "science".
muriel_volestrangler
(101,315 posts)"The Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment was established by a Decision Memorandum, dated August 20, 2015"
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/05/01/2017-08758/advisory-committee-for-the-sustained-national-climate-assessment
It's just another worthwhile thing that Obama did that Trump is killing.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)He has grandkids and a young son who will suffer due to his acts. He is pure evil and greed. Americans are stupid idiots for allowing this monster to do this and electing him in the first place.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Thanks.
crosinski
(411 posts)... this old world will have her way. She's way bigger than us, she's way more complex than us, and she doesn't like us that much.
briv1016
(1,570 posts)sandensea
(21,635 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)they will deny it's existence, Maybe the can talk in tongues with Farwell JR for enlightenment of the raptures. Then they can go into dark room with Devos and her clan can teach everyone that the world is flat, pruitt and scott can then spread there BS on climate and drugs , and the sexual predator will turn into, well a sexual predator for around ninety minutes , when it goes dark and slithers into and under a rock for protection from the sun, tom keep cool like a garden snake. After all this event changed the way real "humans" think and are smarter, when it came to this event. After all rocks are smarter than this bunch ripping off the american taxpayer and the world.
But since this crowd wants to remove the sciences from the class room we have this for all of scientists old and young, to keep education alive and how this event does what it does to our CLIMATE, it will either make so it will break us in the long term:
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm
And has for the eciplse on Aug 21, 2017 we can thank the following;
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar-eclipse-history.html
So for all of the deplorables in the white house and all of race hate minions and followers ---------eat shit and bark at the moon
Were coming from you and we have no fucking pity,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,we don't like criminals especially treasonous ones that are assholes/