{"id":20197,"date":"2026-08-13T08:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=20197"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:08:30","slug":"imposing-ignorance-us-climate-science-under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=20197","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Imposing ignorance&#8217;: US climate science under siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>A benchmark US report on the fast-changing state of the Arctic has been canceled. The nation\u2019s top research body has removed a chapter on global warming from a reference manual for judges.<\/p>\n<p>After the mass layoffs and budget cuts of the early days of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the administration is barreling ahead in its war on climate science, at a time when the world\u2019s oceans and land masses face record-breaking heat.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the Arctic Report Card, cancelled this week, found the polar region had experienced its hottest year since records began, with cascading impacts from melting glaciers and sea ice to greening landscapes and disruptions to global weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Arctic is a bellwether of climate change,\u201d Rick Spinrad, a former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), told AFP. \u201cThey\u2019re imposing ignorance on the system in the hopes that that will address the challenges that are real associated with climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Global impacts \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The Arctic is warming several times faster than the global average, a phenomenon known as \u201cArctic amplification\u201d \u2014 and the effects aren\u2019t confined to the North Pole.<\/p>\n<p>For example, losing sea ice injects more freshwater into the North Atlantic, making surface waters less dense and salty and hindering their ability to sink and drive the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which helps keep Europe\u2019s winters milder.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA, which has published the Report Card annually since 2006, did not explain its demise, saying only that \u201cCoordination of the 2026 Arctic Report Card will not be facilitated through NOAA\u201d and that prior data would remain publicly available.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest in a long line of actions by the Trump administration against science documenting the impacts of human-caused climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the National Academy of Sciences, a Congressionally-chartered yet independent body, removed from its website a chapter on climate science from a manual for judges.<\/p>\n<p>It came after Trump took to Truth Social to blast the chapter as \u201cfraudulent, biased and misleading\u201d and accuse the NAS of being run by \u201cRadical Left Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the NAS alluded to \u201cconsiderable scrutiny,\u201d adding it had determined \u201cthat questions about the processes used to develop the chapter warrant an independent review, and the chapter will not appear on our website while that review is underway.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson told AFP on Wednesday: \u201cWe expect to complete the review this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision attracted attention particularly because the NAS had weeks earlier released a comprehensive review of climate attribution science.<\/p>\n<p>That review examined whether individual extreme weather events can be linked to climate change and found the science robust for many phenomena \u2014 a question pivotal to dozens of cases against oil and gas companies working their way through US courts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Broad attack\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Carly Phillips, a senior scientist with the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, said she saw a \u201cbroad attack on attribution science that\u2019s been happening for many months,\u201d including from Republicans in Congress, who are pushing to outlaw climate accountability lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudges need reliable scientific information about climate change so that they can evaluate those cases on their merits,\u201d she told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>These developments follow the administration\u2019s rescission in February of the \u201cendangerment finding,\u201d the 2009 determination that greenhouse gas pollution endangers human health and must be regulated.<\/p>\n<p>Its immediate effect was to wipe out federal vehicle emissions standards. But the same framework underpins limits on power plants, just as the AI boom drives a surge of new natural gas projects.<\/p>\n<p>The administration\u2019s attacks are \u201ca losing effort given the piling up of evidence and the fact that people are seeing and feeling the consequences of climate change so dramatically this summer with the heat domes and wildfires,\u201d climatologist Michael Mann, co-author of the new book \u201cScience Under Siege,\u201d told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that doesn\u2019t mean they won\u2019t continue to try.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = window.adsbyjuicy || []).push({'adzone':1114307});<\/script>\r\n<!--JuicyAds END-->\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u7b2c\u4e8c\u901a\u680f\uff1a728\u00d790 \u901a\u680f -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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