US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
There are a ton of preexisting links to the old reports. They come up high when you do a search. People will mistakenly continue to treat them as credible as a result
There’s a LOT of reports that cite these too. This is going to snowball fast to erase scientific consensus, because a lot of studies build on these governmental reports.
It gives a ton of people one more argument to deny the facts.
It’s also an emotional thing. It “vindicates” everybody who has been saying that nobody should trust these government reports. Either the new government has “fixed” the lies. Or the new government “also” lies. Either way, it muddies the water.
What’s even the point? This will literally fool no one
There are a ton of preexisting links to the old reports. They come up high when you do a search. People will mistakenly continue to treat them as credible as a result
There’s a LOT of reports that cite these too. This is going to snowball fast to erase scientific consensus, because a lot of studies build on these governmental reports.
It’ll fool his dumb as fuck voter base
Maybe when it’s 130° in the shade they’ll start to be like “it may be a tad warm out here.”
And then blame the Democrats.
Those damn weather machines pointed at us here in Dumbfuck Kansas on purpose cuz they hate us specifically!
It gives a ton of people one more argument to deny the facts.
It’s also an emotional thing. It “vindicates” everybody who has been saying that nobody should trust these government reports. Either the new government has “fixed” the lies. Or the new government “also” lies. Either way, it muddies the water.
It will play a role in how much money and resources are allocated to fighting climate change.
It will fool a lot of people. A large chunk of Americans have been fooled for the past several decades by things like this
They’ll latch onto anything that let’s them continue destroying the environment because they don’t want to change