Trump's EPA Under Wheeler Is Discarding and Hiding Climate Science Research

The Republican Party is intellectually and morally bankrupt. This isn’t Trump, this is the position of nearly every elected Republican in the country. 

In what could be Mr. Trump’s most consequential action yet, his administration will seek to undermine the very science on which climate change policy rests.  The attack on science is underway throughout the government.

...force [the EPA] to abandon key aspects of the methodology they use to try to understand the causes and consequences of a dangerously warming planet.... the federal government will no longer fulfill what scientists say is one of the most urgent jobs of climate science studies: reporting on the future effects of a rapidly warming planet and presenting a picture of what the earth could look like by the end of the century if the global economy continues to emit heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution from burning fossil fuels.

Head in the sand is their plan.  Ignore what's happening and expect WE THE PEOPLE to forget we're destroying the planet.

The administration’s prime target has been the National Climate Assessment, produced by an interagency task force roughly every four years since 2000.  Government scientists used computer-generated models in their most recent report to project... drastically higher sea levels, more devastating storms and droughts, crop failures, food losses and severe health consequences.  But from now on.... scenario projections will not automatically be included in the National Climate Assessment....

“What we have here is a pretty blatant attempt to politicize the science — to push the science in a direction that’s consistent with their politics,” said Philip B. Duffy, the president of the Woods Hole Research Center, who served on a National Academy of Sciences panel that reviewed the government’s most recent National Climate Assessment. “It reminds me of the Soviet Union.”

Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the term “global warming” into a punch line rather than a prognosis.

In the next few months, the White House will complete the rollback of the most significant federal effort to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, initiated during the Obama administration.... building on his retreat from the Paris accord and his recent refusal to sign a communiqué to protect the rapidly melting Arctic region unless it was stripped of any references to climate change.

We are living in the movie Idiocracy.  VOTE THEM OUT.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/politics/trump-climate-science.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share