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OKIsItJustMe

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Mon Aug 21, 2017, 11:40 PM Aug 2017

The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/20/the-trump-administration-just-disbanded-a-federal-advisory-committee-on-climate-change/

The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change

By Juliet Eilperin | August 20

The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning.

The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment — which includes academics as well as local officials and corporate representatives — expires Sunday. On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s acting administrator, Ben Friedman, informed the committee’s chair that the agency would not renew the panel.

The National Climate Assessment is supposed to be issued every four years but has come out only three times since passage of the 1990 law calling for such analysis. The next one, due for release in 2018, already has become a contentious issue for the Trump administration.

Administration officials are currently reviewing a scientific report that is key to the final document. Known as the Climate Science Special Report, it was produced by scientists from 13 different federal agencies and estimates that human activities were responsible for an increase in global temperatures of 1.1 to 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit from 1951 to 2010.

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The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change (Original Post) OKIsItJustMe Aug 2017 OP
A broken government makes Trump stronger he knows this Bladewire Aug 2017 #1
So everyone there was fired. POS SummerSnow Aug 2017 #2
 

Bladewire

(381 posts)
1. A broken government makes Trump stronger he knows this
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 11:57 PM
Aug 2017

Broken government & broken people are easier to overthrow

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