Actual Climatologists On Shitstain's Pet Committee: "Like Assembling A Panel Of Gravity Skeptics"

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The White House is moving forward with a plan to create a National Security Council committee to question the findings of recent federal climate science reports, according a Washington Post report.

The panel idea, first reported last week, represents a frontal assault on climate science reports at a time when public opinion is moving to support cutting greenhouse gas emissions. In this case, per the Post, the report the panel is most likely to investigate is the National Climate Assessment.

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Unlike the NCA, the new White House panel may be structured to be exempt from disclosure requirements, meaning that it would not have to submit its work for peer review, the Post reports. Mainstream climate scientists and other experts were withering in their criticism about the proposal.

"This is like assembling a panel of 'gravity skeptics' who insist it’s safe to jump off tall buildings, except in this case they want to take us all with them," NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel tells Axios. "Really what we're seeing is what I call a 'zombie-idea'. This is a truly bad idea that just refuses to die. All bureaucracies have them — they are just more dangerous when they originate and live in the White House," retired Rear Admiral David Titley, who served as oceanographer of the Navy, tells Axios. Chris Field, director of Stanford's Woods Insitute for the Environment, notes that a new panel within the White House would also depart from past practice. He tells Axios that the George W. Bush administration turned to the National Academies for such insight on climate science in 2001, leading to the publication of a report that went on to guide policy.

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https://www.axios.com/white-house-climate-change-panel-review-scientists-5c88359e-5aaf-47fc-be19-51cdfdb0f710.html

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1. That's a great one liner /nt