Eugene Robinson: Trump fiddles with matches as the world burns
Climate change is happening “primarily as a result of human activities” and its damaging impacts — severe droughts, deadly wildfires, monster tropical storms, punishing heat waves — “are already being felt in the United States.” That’s not me talking. It’s the conclusion of the U.S. government, in an alarming new report the Trump administration doesn’t want you to read.
It can be no accident that the 1,656-page “Impacts, Risks and Adaptation” section of the latest blue-ribbon National Climate Assessment was released on the day after Thanksgiving, a graveyard of a news cycle when many Americans are focused on turkey sandwiches and Black Friday deals.
The report provides stunning new evidence for what we already knew: President Trump’s climate-change policy — ignore, obfuscate, delay, deny — amounts to environmental vandalism on a tragic scale.
Surely aware of what was coming, the president used his Twitter feed on Wednesday to pose as a weatherman and launch a preemptive attack: “Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS — Whatever happened to Global Warming?”
Answer: It’s here, it’s all around us, and it’s getting worse.
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