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Trump administration dismisses authors of U.S. climate report
Los Angeles Times ^ | April 29, 2025 4:03 PM PT | Ian James, Hayley Smith

Posted on 04/29/2025 5:23:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Trump administration this week summarily dismissed more than 400 scientists and other experts who had begun to write the latest National Climate Assessment report, informing them by email that the scope of the report was being reevaluated.

The report, mandated by Congress, is prepared every four years under a 1990 law. It details the latest science on climate change, and also reports on progress in addressing global warming.

Scientists said they fear the Trump administration could seek to shut down the effort or enlist other authors to write a very different report that seeks to attack climate science — a path they say would leave the country ill-prepared for worsening disasters intensified by humanity’s warming of the planet, including more intense heat waves, wildfires, droughts, floods and sea-level rise.

“Climate change puts us all at risk, and we all need this vital information to help prepare,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University who was an author of four previous versions of the report, including three times as a lead author. “Without it, the future will be much more dangerous.”

She noted that although the assessment is required by law, there aren’t specific requirements about who exactly should write the report or the form it should take.

“It could end up being a collection of long-debunked myths and disinformation about climate change,” Hayhoe said. “It could end up being a document that is just not useful, does not serve the purpose of providing information to the American people on the risks of climate change and the best ways to mitigate or adapt to those risks.”

Trump administration officials didn’t respond to requests for comments.

Participants in the latest study, set for release in late 2027 or early 2028, received an email Monday informing them they were being dismissed....

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ecofascism; ecoscam; gorebullwarming; hayleysmith; ianjames; latimes
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1 posted on 04/29/2025 5:23:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 04/29/2025 5:28:40 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“It could end up being a collection of long-debunked myths and disinformation about climate change,”

And so easy for her to spot because it would not agree with her set of long-debunked myths.


3 posted on 04/29/2025 5:29:53 PM PDT by odawg
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Some corrections...
“It could end up being a document that is just not useful, does not serve the purpose of SHAKING DOWN the American people TO KEEP THE SCAM GRAVY FLOWING.”

4 posted on 04/29/2025 5:37:14 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They write whatever they’re paid to write.


5 posted on 04/29/2025 5:40:18 PM PDT by roving
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Scientists said they fear the Trump administration could seek to shut down the effort or enlist other authors to write a very different report that seeks to attack climate science


Time to give the opposition a chance to speak instead of being attacked as anti-science. It is the “deep state” which is anti-science. Any person who says, with authority “The science is settled” is anti-science.


6 posted on 04/29/2025 6:01:28 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"..summarily dismissed more than 400 scientists and other experts.."

A long list of sad scientists and exhausted experts.

7 posted on 04/29/2025 6:08:13 PM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Whoever writes the report should follow the scientific method. Not the political-science method or computer-model mumbo jumbo.

Solar effects have been grossly and willfully ignored since 1990 by the majority of ‘experts’. I’d like to see Dr. Willie Soon on a new panel.


8 posted on 04/29/2025 6:10:39 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: chief lee runamok

Were they to be paid for this effort?


9 posted on 04/29/2025 6:35:46 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: odawg

Katherine Hayhoe is not a real “scientist”, but a “science communicator.” Totally in the warmist tank. No wonder this report has been so lame these last few years.


10 posted on 04/29/2025 7:08:50 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: chief lee runamok

Probably the same “97% consensus scientists.”


11 posted on 04/29/2025 7:10:06 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration this week summarily dismissed more than 400 scientists and other experts who had begun to write the latest National Climate Assessment report,,,

This IS a win... for all of us.

12 posted on 04/29/2025 7:19:44 PM PDT by GOPJ (Judicial robes aren't invisibility cloaks that allows judges to engage in criminal acts. J Turley)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hacks asking for more funding.


13 posted on 04/29/2025 7:30:21 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

““Climate change puts us all at risk, and we all need this vital information to help prepare,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University”

Hay, Hoe, Katharine has to go.
Hay, Hoe, Katharine has to go.
Hay, Hoe, Katharine has to go.
Hay, Hoe, Katharine has to go.
Hay, Hoe, Katharine has to go.
Hay, Hoe, Katharine has to go.

...and Katharine will soon go.


14 posted on 04/29/2025 8:51:34 PM PDT by BobL
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Hey Don, here ya go buddy ...

... “weather is always changing. Deal with it.”

INVOICE: $1,000,000.00

(U.S. please, I need all I can get)


15 posted on 04/29/2025 11:39:44 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (For two countries with so many lawyers, there ain't much justice in Canada or America (yet))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

400 scientists who are funded by government


16 posted on 04/30/2025 1:45:52 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

CNN would employ them. They take anybody.


17 posted on 04/30/2025 2:50:54 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is simply more lies by the has-been liberal press. Here’s the true story:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/29/trump-administration-finally-pulls-the-plug-on-the-climate-fear-factory/


18 posted on 04/30/2025 3:32:57 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Past time to end the one sided and lop sided view of climate change. There is another rational set of facts and opinions. We need to hear it more often.


19 posted on 04/30/2025 7:26:00 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Been mandated since 1990.
So 35 years worth of data.
Any of their predictions, conclusions, whatever, shown to be true?


20 posted on 04/30/2025 7:32:03 AM PDT by saleman
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