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White House moves to hamstring national climate assessment
Reuters | Yahoo News ^ | April 9, 2025 | by Valerie Volcovici

Posted on 04/10/2025 5:54:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration plans to scrap a contract for a federal climate assessment used to direct government action on climate change, two sources familiar with the matter said.

The administration will cut the contract with global advisory ICF for work on the National Climate Assessment, a comprehensive report published every five years on how climate change affects the United States.

CF provides most of the staff for the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), an agency created by Congress in 1990 to coordinate research and investment on climate change, and which has overseen the last five national climate assessments.

The last assessment, published in 2023, said climate change was increasingly imposing costs on Americans, as prices rise for weather-related insurance or certain foods, and as medical care becomes more expensive as people face threats like extreme heat.

Without the contract, what happens with the assessment due in 2028 is uncertain, said one of the sources.

President Donald Trump's administration has targeted scientific research in several areas in sweeping government job cuts to curtail what it calls wasteful spending, including at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 04/10/2025 5:54:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not federal climate “assessment.” He’s hamstringing federal climate fearmongering


2 posted on 04/10/2025 5:56:18 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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My “climate assessment” is that leftists are blowing hot air—every single day.


3 posted on 04/10/2025 5:59:30 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Reuters | Yahoo News”

How you know it’s a leftwing hit piece


4 posted on 04/10/2025 6:05:49 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The Trump administration plans to scrap a contract for a federal climate assessment used to direct government action on climate change”

OH NO! We’re all gonna die ... Riiiiiight!


5 posted on 04/10/2025 6:06:29 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: cgbg

assessment, their assessment leads to more squandering and stealing of tax payer money into their personnel pockets and their mentally ill agenda


6 posted on 04/10/2025 6:07:16 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thanks for that.

Saving for making wooden silhouettes right now...


7 posted on 04/10/2025 6:13:10 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I, I, I feel sooooo bad! Okay. All better. 😊👍


8 posted on 04/10/2025 6:14:07 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

roto rooters says what ?

;-).


9 posted on 04/10/2025 6:15:24 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Notice they don’t say how much the contract is worth? Also, if we have so many government agencies that are supposed to be doing this work already, why are we hiring outside groups to do it?


10 posted on 04/10/2025 6:15:30 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hamstring? They need a bigger rope.


11 posted on 04/10/2025 6:16:35 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: cuz1961

hamstring is such a loaded word

roto roooters must have had that turd saved for a story like this.


12 posted on 04/10/2025 6:17:21 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good move. So far I am not particularly suffering from being warm. I even survived visit to Death Valley during summer!
But, I am suffering from all those “Green, save the earth” measures.
I cannot get car I want, My gas and electricity are expensive, and unreliable, my taxes go for some crazy green initiatives, the Earth is polluted by windmills and solar cells, ...


13 posted on 04/10/2025 6:32:30 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Even if all the doomsayers were correct, the rest of the world (China, India, Russia, and many, many, other countries) have already left the station and are NOT playing ball with the doomsayers. So we (the West) could shrink our 25% share of global GNP to near zero and live destitute lives, but the other 75% of the world will continue using the resources they have access to for IMPROVING their lives...and the planet cannot be saved (even using their logic).


14 posted on 04/10/2025 6:32:58 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Best Psyops ever with China’s finance of the Green Global Warming conspiracy.


15 posted on 04/10/2025 7:00:13 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good riddance to funding junk science.


16 posted on 04/10/2025 7:27:14 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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To: V_TWIN

“Reuters | Yahoo News”

What a combo. Two of worst leftist propagandists in the world.


17 posted on 04/10/2025 7:28:59 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And still waiting on Ethanol.


18 posted on 04/10/2025 7:40:43 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Assessment = fees...’bout time it ended.


19 posted on 04/10/2025 7:41:44 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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...government action on climate change...

Should be limited to adapting to the results of a changing climate. It is wasteful to throw money at something you cannot affect.

20 posted on 04/10/2025 8:47:18 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
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