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Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:28 PM Aug 2017

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 government’s 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 Administration’s acting administrator, Ben Friedman, informed the committee’s 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/

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The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change (Original Post) Julian Englis Aug 2017 OP
Denying scientists doesn't make science & reality less true. Only Trumpians believe otherwise. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2017 #1
Thank goodness we dont have a woman in the White House NOT doing this, I mean Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #2
Clearly, herr drumpf doesn't want anyone advising him on anything. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2017 #3
He knows more than anyone Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #14
I hope they're uploading copies of this report to the cloud before Trump's minions begin...... LongTomH Aug 2017 #4
wow freddyvh Aug 2017 #5
Somedays I just want to cry. So, unbelieveable what this adm. is doing to Mother Earth! riversedge Aug 2017 #6
I really think bdamomma Aug 2017 #16
Here's what I'm afraid of. Trump's gonna sign an executive order to ban Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2017 #7
and ICYMI..... riversedge Aug 2017 #8
The irony of a newspaper website with the slogan, "Democracy dies in darkness" Crash2Parties Aug 2017 #9
Gravity and Momentum are thus refuted by official Republican Policy: Newton Rolls in his grave. Ford_Prefect Aug 2017 #10
I'm waiting for him to issue an executive order neeksgeek Aug 2017 #11
You know, these guys are really beginning to get me angry. sinkingfeeling Aug 2017 #12
This should come as no surprise. SergeStorms Aug 2017 #13
It was formed under the Obama administration muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #15
Yeah, killing everything Obama and killing the earth and future generations. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #17
I didn't know that. SergeStorms Aug 2017 #23
Yeppers, no matter how hard they close their eyes and clap their hands ... crosinski Aug 2017 #18
Humans aren't worth saving at this point. briv1016 Aug 2017 #19
The best gummint money can buy. sandensea Aug 2017 #20
I wonder if these right wing freaks know that there is going to be a solar eclipse tomorrow and turbinetree Aug 2017 #21
Just in time for peak hurricane season! sofa king Aug 2017 #22

Eliot Rosewater

(31,111 posts)
2. Thank goodness we dont have a woman in the White House NOT doing this, I mean
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:36 PM
Aug 2017

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)
3. Clearly, herr drumpf doesn't want anyone advising him on anything.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:38 PM
Aug 2017

This news shouldn't surprise me, given his repeated denials that climate change is real.

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
4. I hope they're uploading copies of this report to the cloud before Trump's minions begin......
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:38 PM
Aug 2017

.......any reference to global warming or the fact that it's anthropogenic in cause.

bdamomma

(63,849 posts)
16. I really think
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 02:56 PM
Aug 2017

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)
7. Here's what I'm afraid of. Trump's gonna sign an executive order to ban
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:54 PM
Aug 2017

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)
8. and ICYMI.....
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:55 PM
Aug 2017

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.

Ford_Prefect

(7,897 posts)
10. Gravity and Momentum are thus refuted by official Republican Policy: Newton Rolls in his grave.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 01:11 PM
Aug 2017

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).

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
13. This should come as no surprise.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 02:20 PM
Aug 2017

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)
15. It was formed under the Obama administration
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 02:52 PM
Aug 2017

"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)
17. Yeah, killing everything Obama and killing the earth and future generations.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 03:24 PM
Aug 2017

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.

crosinski

(411 posts)
18. Yeppers, no matter how hard they close their eyes and clap their hands ...
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 05:24 PM
Aug 2017

... 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.

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
21. I wonder if these right wing freaks know that there is going to be a solar eclipse tomorrow and
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 11:44 PM
Aug 2017

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/


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