Trump's Destruction Of Science - Particularly Climate Science - Is Massive, Deliberate And May Never Be Undone

[hatrack]

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The National Science Foundation’s funding for climate research at universities has now evaporated after severe Trump administration cuts. Spacecraft in orbit that have cost billions of dollars to launch — and a fraction of the cost to maintain — will be mothballed if they monitor climate change, under Trump’s budget proposal.

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one of the world’s leading space and climate research labs, was kicked out of its longtime building. The scientists who work there now face an uncertain future under a proposed NASA budget that cuts science research nearly in half. “It’s humiliating and it debilitates our standing in the world community,” said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and director of its Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media.

Climate science at EPA, the CDC, and the Interior, Agriculture and Energy departments has been proposed for elimination. That includes research that monitors human harms from pollution, climatic conditions that can devastate farmers’ crops and the health risks of intense heat waves.

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Climate denialists, including conservative politicians, foundations and think tanks that oppose regulations, long have pined for a day when the U.S. government stops providing clear evidence that global warming poses a threat to America’s economy, national security and way of life. With Trump, their wishes are on the way to being granted. It’s the culmination of decades of funding from the oil, gas and coal industry to tear down climate science. Weakening scientific research and creating long-term damage is the goal, said Steve Milloy, who was part of Trump’s EPA transition team in his first term and has spent decades trying to shatter federal climate science and regulations. “If Democrats ever get back in power, there will be a lot to rebuild,” he said. That reconstruction likely will include pillars of the nation’s climate research infrastructure.

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https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-trumps-assault-on-science-is-blinding-america-to-climate-change/

[Bayard]

1. You don't need climate research if you can just change the weather with a Sharpie