{"id":9991,"date":"2018-11-25T01:20:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T06:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2021-06-10T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:56:02","slug":"heads-in-the-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2018\/11\/25\/heads-in-the-sands\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads in the sands"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not surprising that the Trump administration would wish to bury<\/a> the nearly 1700-page Fourth National Climate Asessment, Volume 2: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States<\/a>, a report written by over 300 scientists representing 13 federal agencies, by having it released on Black Friday<\/a>, the day after Thanksgiving when most Americans are too busy shopping (or sleeping off their holiday revelry) to pay attention to anything.<\/p>\n

It’s not just Trump’s (and other Republicans’) coziness with the oil and gas industries, and their dislike of the implications of climate science, that accounts for it. It’s also that they are busily gutting government while they can (as Fintan O’Toole explains in this week’s New York Review of Books<\/a>) and the report makes it painfully clear<\/a> what that kind of strategy will lead to. (It ain’t pretty.)<\/p>\n

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1700 pages is a lot to read, but if you live in the US (and plan to stay put for a while), you ought to at least read the Summary Findings<\/a>, the Overview<\/a> (chapter 1), and the regional chapter<\/a> on the part of the country you live in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not surprising that the Trump administration would wish to bury the nearly 1700-page Fourth National Climate Asessment, Volume 2: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States, a report written by over 300 scientists representing 13 federal agencies, by having it released on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when most Americans are too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[520594,691215],"tags":[520628,520624,520626,5242,520625],"class_list":["post-9991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-politics","category-politics_postpolitics","tag-fourth-national-climate-assessment","tag-national-climate-assessment","tag-nca","tag-reports","tag-united-statesm-trump-administration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-2B9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10005,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2018\/11\/28\/denial-incompetence-depravity\/","url_meta":{"origin":9991,"position":0},"title":"Denial, incompetence, & depravity","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"November 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"For many, President Trump's babbling and incoherent\u00a0responses to last week's National Climate Assessment (\"I'm too smart to believe it, just look at our air and water and what those other countries are doing...\"), following on from his even less coherent responses to California's wildfire tragedies (\"They should rake more, like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Climate change"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/climate-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9294,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2017\/06\/02\/trump-vs-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":9991,"position":1},"title":"Trump vs. the world","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump's speech on his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord included so many questionable statements, it's hard to know where to start. 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