Federal report disputes top guy

Federal report disputes top guy

Despite Donald Trump’s policy statements on climate change for his administration, researchers who prepared a U.S. government report—the fourth National Climate Assessment—found no way to comply with his policies. Their 60-page Climate Science Special Report, which drew for expertise on NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Energy—found of the last 115 years (1901–2016), “This period is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization,” representing a 1.8 Fahrenheit (1.0 Celsius) rise in planet temperatures. It further found there is “no convincing alternative explanation” for climate change except human activities.

Somehow, Environmental Protection Agency administrator and Trump appointee Scott Pruitt found it possible to read the report—we assume he read it—and react this way: “There’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact.”

You can read the report at science2017.globalchange.gov/.