Shitstain's Bold New Approach On Climate: Cobble Together "Science" To Show That Warming Is Actually Good For You

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But a federal report downplaying or denying the threat of climate change would become a cornerstone of Trump’s efforts to end or weaken climate regulations while expanding executive authority. It also would mark an escalation of Trump’s own climate disinformation from rhetoric to federal action. The Trump assault on climate science has begun in earnest. In its first weeks, the Trump administration fired climate scientists and removed climate-related government web pages while Cabinet officials made false climate claims.

When EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recommended in February that the White House attempt to reverse the endangerment finding — which requires EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions — he may have kick-started a process to produce a government report intended to tear down climate rules. White House officials did not respond to a request for comment. Any attempt to reject or replace the endangerment finding would be a challenging legal battle for the administration to wage, according to legal experts and scientists. But a key first step is to go after established climate science. Officials from Trump’s current and previous presidency have laid out pathways to produce such a report, which would rely on incomplete or selective research and flawed claims. Proposals include putting together a new endangerment finding to supplant the current one, conducting a hostile review of U.S. and international climate reports, and recruiting a White House-approved list of researchers to produce a National Climate Assessment based on partisan research and industry studies.

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One strategy that Trump could resurrect from his first term involves casting doubt on established science by claiming there are flaws in climate research, said Steve Koonin, a physicist at New York University and former top scientist at BP who co-led the effort five years ago. That could topple the endangerment finding, he said.

“What I think has been needed all along is an honest, transparent, unbought presentation of the science — that’s what needs to happen — and then the endangerment finding will fall where it is,” Koonin said. “It’s the job of the scientists to inform the decisionmakers. That includes the courts, of course, as well as the administration.” Overturning the consensus would be a heavy lift, especially since the Supreme Court has rejected three previous attempts to revisit the endangerment finding, said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. “There was a ton of scientific evidence supporting the conclusion that greenhouse gasses worsened climate change. There’s now 10 times that evidence,” Gerrard said. “It’s implausible that EPA could now come up with evidence refuting any of that and so it would be the essence of arbitrary and capricious.”

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https://www.eenews.net/articles/trumps-next-climate-move-show-global-warming-benefits-humanity/

[-misanthroptimist]

1. Yeah, because it's easy to talk physics and biology into going away.

Even if they don't know the basics of AGW/CC -and I'm sure that they don't- they should know that arguing with basic physics is pointless and childish. Physics is the undisputed, undefeated champion of the universe.