He's trying to help the loony deniers grow in strength against the scientific establishment and the scientists working for the US government who all maintain it's real.
Remember that poor kid whose anti-vaxxer parents got their medical information from Facebook while he turned to the CDC and WebMD?
Trump, himself an anti-vaxxer, is those parents.
He is a mindless gargoyle pouring filth and disinformation into the mainstream via the bully pulpit and social media.
His presidency is the best thing that ever happened to the loonies.
After social media and the Internet.
Hooray for the world wide web.
Trump Parrots Anti-Science Misinformation As He Readies Climate Change Panel
Trump is preparing to convene an ad-hoc panel of scientists and researchers to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is an immediate crisis driven by fossil fuels.
The panel will conduct “adversarial scientific peer review” of near-universally accepted climate science, according to reporting by E&E News.
One of its primary targets being the National Climate Assessment, a federal report released in November that concluded planetary warming “could increase by 9°F (5°C) or more by the end of this century” if governments don’t implement dramatic emission reductions.
Trump’s reported pick to lead the committee is William Happer, a retired Princeton physics professor with no expertise in climatology.
Happer co-founded the CO2 Coalition in 2015 and now serves as Trump’s deputy assistant for emerging technologies on the National Security Council.
He had called climate science a “cult,” claimed Earth is in the midst of a “CO2 famine,” and said the “demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler.”
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