bearister said:
"Trump was shown a copy of the National Climate Assessment, a federally mandated report the Trump administration released without fanfare, or interference, last November. He dismissed it and said he didn't read it.
"Is there climate change? Yeah. Will it go back like this, I mean will it change back? Probably," Trump said, making an ocean wave motion with his hand.
Reality check: The report is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment published by the entire federal government, from NASA to the Environmental Protection Agency. It concludes that "there is no convincing alternative explanation" for the global warming we've observed, other than human causes.
Why it matters: These comments, the first on this report, are among the most extreme he's made dismissing a scientific issue nearly all other world leaders take seriously." Axios
This report is in the same vein as the IPCC's, a lot more political than scientific,
it looks like it's been written by 27 year old activists, not serious scientists. It starts from the premise that the climate models, which have been
proven to be wildly alarmist, will materialize.
This report is basically what someone would write if he was living in an alternative universe where the red line materialized. Take a look at the agriculture section for instance:
https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/agricultureUS and global agricultural outputs have been growing and are at all time highs, so much so that the total area dedicated to agriculture has actually been shrinking, even as world population and global demand have been rising steadily. Essential crops such a corn, rice, wheat and soybean have kept growing, in what were supposed to be the hottest years on record.
Someone reading this report would be totally shielded from this reality, in its most basic aspect.
Its authors want to implement artificially restrictive energy policies that would result in much higher costs, which would disproportionally affect the poorest population segments, the kind of policies you see in Germany or Denmark where energy costs are nearly 3 times higher than in the US.