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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The Trump admin really, really doesn’t want you to see this climate science


The same scientific agencies that rocketed Neil Armstrong to the moon and forecast the landfall of hurricanes that pummel the U.S. coast also expect dramatic changes to Earth’s climate this century, should humanity continue to heat the planet. But the Trump administration no longer wants many federal scientists to consider longer-term consequences of saturating the atmosphere with the potent heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide, now likely at its highest level in millions of years. As The New York Times reported on Monday, the head of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ordered the agency’s researchers to only project climate change impacts through 2040, as opposed to the end of the century. What’s more, The Times reported that the Trump administration might not include future high carbon emission scenarios (which are quite likely) in forthcoming climate reports, including the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment — a major report closely reviewed by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Read more… More about Science, Global Warming, Climate Change, Trump Administration, and Science Source: http://bit.ly/2Mf94Ta Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and shared it with you. The Article Was Written/Published By: Mark Kaufman ! #Headlines, #ClimateChange, #Mashable, #Propaganda, #Science, #TechNews, #Trump, #Newsfeed, #syndicated, news http://bit.ly/2MhN5Lg
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