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Trump Misused MIT Research in Reasons for Ditching Climate Deal
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608015/trump-misused-mit-research-in-reasons-for-ditching-climate-deal/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Trump Misused MIT Research in Reasons for Ditching Climate Deal[/font]
[font size=4]MIT scientist says his study showed the Paris climate agreement was a good first step, but more emissions cuts —not fewer — are needed.[/font]
by James Temple | June 1, 2017
[font size=3]As President Donald Trump explained his rationale for withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement on Thursday, he cited research that seemed to suggest the global emissions cuts agreed to under the deal wouldn’t make a significant difference in worldwide temperatures.
“It is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree … Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100,” he said, during a press conference in the White House Rose Garden. “Tiny, tiny amount.”
But that’s not actually what the relevant research found, or what the scientists in question concluded.
Trump didn’t name the source of that figure during his press conference, in which he announced the United States would withdraw from the landmark agreement to lower worldwide greenhouse-gas emissions. But Reuters reported that White House documents cited a 2016 study produced by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, titled “How much of a difference will the Paris Agreement make?”
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[font size=4]MIT scientist says his study showed the Paris climate agreement was a good first step, but more emissions cuts —not fewer — are needed.[/font]
by James Temple | June 1, 2017
[font size=3]As President Donald Trump explained his rationale for withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement on Thursday, he cited research that seemed to suggest the global emissions cuts agreed to under the deal wouldn’t make a significant difference in worldwide temperatures.
“It is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree … Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100,” he said, during a press conference in the White House Rose Garden. “Tiny, tiny amount.”
But that’s not actually what the relevant research found, or what the scientists in question concluded.
Trump didn’t name the source of that figure during his press conference, in which he announced the United States would withdraw from the landmark agreement to lower worldwide greenhouse-gas emissions. But Reuters reported that White House documents cited a 2016 study produced by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, titled “How much of a difference will the Paris Agreement make?”
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