The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial

The New York Times ^ | May 19, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | David Gelles

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The administration is not only allowing more greenhouse gases. It is undermining the nation’s ability to understand and respond to a hotter planet.

When the Trump administration declared two weeks ago that it would largely disregard the economic cost of climate change as it sets policies and regulations, it was just the latest step in a multipronged effort to erase global warming from the American agenda.

But President Trump is doing more than just turning a blind eye to the fact that the planet is growing hotter. He is weakening the country’s capacity to understand global warming and to prepare for its consequences.

The administration has dismantled climate research, firing some of the nation’s top scientists, and gutted efforts to chart how fast greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere and what that means for the economy, employment, agriculture, health and other aspects of American society. The government will no longer track major sources of greenhouse gases, data that has been used to measure the scale and identify sources of the problem for the past 15 years.

“We’re not doing that climate change, you know, crud, anymore,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Fox Business on May 8.

By getting rid of data, the administration is trying to halt the national discussion about how to deal with global warming, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “The notion of there being any shared factual reality just seems to be completely out the window,” he said.

At the same time, through cuts to the National Weather Service and by denying disaster relief through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the administration has weakened the country’s ability to prepare for and recover from hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and other...

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

Their DEI "peer-reviewed science" that gives us "global warming/climate change" is so good that Wiley just had to shutter 19 "peer-reviewed" journals because of the retraction of 11,000 "peer-reviewed" papers."

https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

[Nervous Tick]

>> But President Trump is doing more than just turning a blind eye to the fact that the planet is growing hotter. He is weakening the country’s capacity to understand global warming and to prepare for its consequences.

Now THAT’S what I voted for!!! Keep up the good work, Mr. President!

[Steve_Seattle]

"climate denial"

I stopped reading right there. The phrase is asinine and an attempt to stifle thought, not stimulate it.

[dljordan]

Let’s talk about China and India and their ‘developing nation’ status.

[ClearCase_guy]

The US is alone on this?

China and India are way ahead of us in cutting back on this sort of thing? Seriously? Better check again.

[Tell It Right]

Thanks for the reminder of the retractions of fake science publications.

As we've known all along from real research before climatology became so politicized, the Modern Warm Period is just yet another warm period we've experienced multiple times since Moses.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"climate denial" I stopped reading right there. The phrase is asinine and an attempt to stifle thought, not stimulate it.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” --George Orwell

[rktman]

D-elusional

E-listist

I-ntolerant

Not easy to be correct when everyone is wrong!

[cgbg]

The Slimes is trying to pretend they are dumber than chimps:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/

“A “resurgence” in construction of new coal-fired power plants in China is “undermining the country’s clean-energy progress”, says a new joint report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM).

The country began building 94.5 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-power capacity and resumed 3.3GW of suspended projects in 2024, the highest level of construction in the past 10 years, according to the two thinktanks.”

[dragnet2]

Climate change is here have no doubt
Too much rain too much drought
Run in circles scream and shout

It’ll cook your brain and freeze your feet
Too much rain too much heat

Snow coming soon no relief in sight
Tornados and floods you better run for your life

Climate change is here better hide in fear.
They need more money or it gets severe

Hurricanes on the way they’re comin soon
You’re all going to die in the next typhoon

Too much rain too much drought
Run in circles scream and shout

[FLT-bird]

We don’t subscribe to your religion.

Germany, Britain and Spain are serving as warnings to others what happens when you sacrifice your economy to Gaia.

[broken_clock]

[databoss]

What are we 6 years into the 12-year doom prediction by AOC? Wouldn’t you expect the deterioration to be ongoing. instead it looks like we’re going to have one big bang at the end of 12 years. Does that make any sense?

[A Navy Vet]

The NYT still ignores other data regarding the natural warming and cooling of our rock.

[brookwood]

China and India are way ahead of us in cutting back on this sort of thing? Seriously? Better check again.”
Also Russia and the entire Middle East could not give a rats ass about “climate change “ same with other non suicidal countries .

[Governor Dinwiddie]

What did are parents tell us? "Well if everybody jumped off a bridge, would you?"

[Rinnwald]

Had a really sunny spring and summer here in WA state last year. I was hoping with global warming, sorry climate change, it would be hotter from here on out.

Nope. This spring is grey and soggy. Guess we’re just captives of the El Nino, La Nina cycles.

I’ve been lied to.

[jerod]

Speaking of ‘denials’... The NY Slimes and several other ‘legitimate’ news organizations have been denying for years that Joe Biden had dementia and cancer... Oops!

[Salman]

Trump is out of step with the western European ruling classes. Again.

Did anyone who voted for him ever think otherwise?

[Steve_Seattle]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” --George Orwell

This is exactly what we were told to do regarding Biden's cognitive decline. Last week Greg Gutfeld played a montage of clips in which MSM talking heads condemned conservative media for questioning Biden's mental capacity, right up until his disastrous debate with Trump last June. Just days earlier, the MSM were saying that videos of a doddering and confused Biden were "cheap fakes."