Trump administration refuses to consider that 97% of climate scientists could be right | Dana Nuccitelli

Even though smart climate policies could save tens of trillions of dollarsLast week, the Washington Post obtained a White House internal memo that debated how the Trump administration should handle federal climate science reports. The memo presented three options without endorsing any of them: conducting a “red team/blue team” exercise to “highlight uncertainties in climate science”; more formally reviewing the science under the Administrative Procedure Act; or deciding to just “ignore, and not seek to characterize or question, the science being conducted by Federal agencies and outside entities.”So according to this memo, the administration considered 3 options--(1) framing reality as being up for debate; (2) developing their own view of reality; or (3) ignoring reality--and went with option 3.Interesting that "accepting reality" was not an option. https://t.co/ejqBOEa0B0 Continue reading...