{"id":28036,"date":"2025-05-19T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28036"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:23:47","slug":"the-u-s-under-trump-alone-in-its-climate-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28036","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The administration is not only allowing more greenhouse gases. It is undermining the nation\u2019s ability to understand and respond to a hotter planet.<\/p>\n

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When the Trump administration declared two weeks ago that it would largely disregard the economic cost of climate change<\/a> as it sets policies and regulations, it was just the latest step in a multipronged effort to erase global warming from the American agenda.<\/p>\n

But President Trump is doing more than just turning a blind eye to the fact that the planet is growing hotter. He is weakening the country\u2019s capacity to understand global warming and to prepare for its consequences.<\/p>\n

The administration has dismantled climate research, firing some of the nation\u2019s top scientists<\/a>, and gutted efforts to chart how fast greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere and what that means<\/a> for the economy, employment, agriculture, health and other aspects of American society. The government will no longer track major sources of greenhouse gases<\/a>, data that has been used to measure the scale and identify sources of the problem for the past 15 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not doing that climate change, you know, crud, anymore,\u201d Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Fox Business on May 8.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By getting rid of data, the administration is trying to halt the national discussion about how to deal with global warming, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u201cThe notion of there being any shared factual reality just seems to be completely out the window,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At the same time, through cuts to the National Weather Service<\/a> and by denying disaster relief<\/a> through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the administration has weakened the country\u2019s ability to prepare for and recover from hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and other extreme weather that is being made worse by climate change.<\/p>\n

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The administration is not only allowing more greenhouse gases. It is undermining the nation\u2019s ability to understand and respond to a hotter planet.When the Trump administration declared two weeks ago that it would largely disregard the economic cost of climate change as it sets policies and regulations, it was just the latest step in a multipronged effort to erase global warming from the American agenda.But President Trump is doing more than just turning a blind eye to the fact that the planet is growing hotter. He is weakening the country\u2019s capacity to understand global warming and to prepare for its consequences.The administration has dismantled climate research, firing some of the nation\u2019s top scientists, and gutted efforts to chart how fast greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere and what that means for the economy, employment, agriculture, health and other aspects of American society. The government will no longer track major sources of greenhouse gases, data that has been used to measure the scale and identify sources of the problem for the past 15 years.\u201cWe\u2019re not doing that climate change, you know, crud, anymore,\u201d Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Fox Business on May 8.By getting rid of data, the administration is trying to halt the national discussion about how to deal with global warming, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u201cThe notion of there being any shared factual reality just seems to be completely out the window,\u201d he said.At the same time, through cuts to the National Weather Service and by denying disaster relief through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the administration has weakened the country\u2019s ability to prepare for and recover from hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and other extreme weather that is being made worse by climate change.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28038,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28039,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28036\/revisions\/28039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}