{"id":24418,"date":"2017-08-24T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24418"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T21:00:14","slug":"us-government-disbands-climate-science-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/24\/us-government-disbands-climate-science-advisory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"US government disbands climate-science advisory committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting this with no comment because it is expected and so obviously bone-headed Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has disbanded a government advisory committee that was intended to help the country prepare for a changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established the committee in 2015 to help businesses and state and local governments make use of the next national climate assessment. The legally mandated report, due in 2018, will lay out the latest climate-change science and describe how global warming is likely to affect the United States, now and in coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory group&#8217;s charter expired on 20 August, and Trump administration officials informed members late last week that it would not be renewed. \u201cIt really makes me worried and deeply sad,\u201d says Richard Moss, a climate scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park and co-chair of the committee. \u201cIt\u2019s another thing that is just part of the political football game.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/us-government-disbands-climate-science-advisory-committee-1.22484\">Read the whole story with the awful details HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting this with no comment because it is expected and so obviously bone-headed Trump: US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has disbanded a government advisory committee that was intended to help the country prepare for a changing climate. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established the committee in 2015 to help businesses and state and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/24\/us-government-disbands-climate-science-advisory-committee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US government disbands climate-science advisory committee<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1228,148,856,97,1138,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6lQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}