{"id":1003804,"date":"2019-02-20T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003804"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:09:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:09:27","slug":"trump-admin-embraces-climate-deniers-who-believe-pollution-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-admin-embraces-climate-deniers-who-believe-pollution-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin Embraces Climate Deniers Who Believe Pollution Is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump continues to deny the reality of climate change. The White House is assembling a panel to undermine conclusions from Trump\u2019s own intelligence officials that climate change poses a significant threat to our national security. In fact, Trump has actually embraced climate deniers who believe that more pollution is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The White House is preparing a new panel to undermine the intelligence community\u2019s consensus that climate change is a national security threat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat\/2019\/02\/19\/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.860cfec45119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat\/2019\/02\/19\/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term%3D.860cfec45119&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550843888621000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFyv34965M2iOnCN3yNRHw_cZ7xbw\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u00a0&#8220;White House Prepares To Scrutinize Intelligence Agencies\u2019 Finding That Climate Change Threatens National Security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat\/2019\/02\/19\/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.860cfec45119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat\/2019\/02\/19\/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term%3D.860cfec45119&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550843888621000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFyv34965M2iOnCN3yNRHw_cZ7xbw\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThe initiative represents the Trump administration\u2019s most recent attempt to question the findings of federal scientists and experts on climate change and comes less than three weeks after Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats delivered a worldwide threat assessment that identified it as a significant security risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u2019s climate panel is expected to be spearheaded by someone who is not a professionally trained climate scientist and who seriously said that \u201cmore CO2 is actually a benefit to the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat\/2019\/02\/19\/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.860cfec45119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat\/2019\/02\/19\/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term%3D.860cfec45119&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550843888621000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFyv34965M2iOnCN3yNRHw_cZ7xbw\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThe proposed Presidential Committee on Climate Security, which would be established by executive order, is being spearheaded by William Happer, a National Security Council senior director. Happer, an emeritus professor of physics at Princeton University, has said that carbon emissions linked to climate change should be viewed as an asset rather than a pollutant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat\/2019\/02\/19\/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.860cfec45119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat\/2019\/02\/19\/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term%3D.860cfec45119&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550843888621000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFyv34965M2iOnCN3yNRHw_cZ7xbw\">Washington Post<\/a>: &#8220;\u2018I like to call this the CO2 anti-defamation league,\u2019 he said, gesturing to a slide, \u2018because there is the CO2 molecule, and it has undergone decade after decade of abuse, for no reason. \u00a0\u2018We\u2019re doing our best to try and counter this myth that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant,\u2019 he said. \u2018It\u2019s not a pollutant at all. .\u2009.\u2009. We should be telling the scientific truth, that more CO2 is actually a benefit to the earth.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s EPA embraced recommendations from a toxicologist who actually believes low levels of pollution and radiation are good for you.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-secret-science-20190219-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-secret-science-20190219-story.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550843888621000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEgKcZokjIhpgg-00i-sfNHMfvlKg\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>: &#8220;Scientist Says Some Pollution Is Good For You \u2014 A Disputed Claim Trump\u2019s EPA Has Embraced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-secret-science-20190219-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-secret-science-20190219-story.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550843888621000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEgKcZokjIhpgg-00i-sfNHMfvlKg\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>: &#8220;In early 2018, a deputy assistant administrator in the EPA, Clint Woods, reached out to a Massachusetts toxicologist best known for pushing a public health standard suggesting that low levels of toxic chemicals and radiation are good for people. \u2018I wanted to check to see if you might have some time in the next couple of days for a quick call to discuss a couple items \u2026,\u2019 Woods wrote to Ed Calabrese. Less than two weeks later, Calabrese\u2019s suggestions on how the EPA should assess toxic chemicals and radiation were introduced, nearly word for word, in the U.S. government\u2019s official journal, the Federal Register.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump continues to deny the reality of climate change. The White House is assembling a panel to undermine conclusions from Trump\u2019s own intelligence officials that climate change poses a significant threat to our national security. In fact, Trump has actually embraced climate deniers who believe that more pollution is a good thing. &nbsp; The White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Admin Embraces Climate Deniers Who Believe Pollution Is Good - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-admin-embraces-climate-deniers-who-believe-pollution-is-good\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-20T18:51:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:09:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-admin-embraces-climate-deniers-who-believe-pollution-is-good\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-admin-embraces-climate-deniers-who-believe-pollution-is-good\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Admin Embraces Climate Deniers Who Believe Pollution Is Good - 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