{"id":14197,"date":"2017-11-05T10:12:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T10:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/climate-change-us-report-at-odds-with-some-in-trump-team\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T10:12:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T10:12:19","slug":"climate-change-us-report-at-odds-with-some-in-trump-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/climate-change-us-report-at-odds-with-some-in-trump-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change: US report at odds with some in Trump team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has sought to downplay a major climate change report, which was compiled by 13 US federal agencies. <\/p>\n<p>The study is at odds with assertions from President Donald Trump and several members of his administration. <\/p>\n<p>It says it is &quot;extremely likely&quot; human activity is the &quot;dominant cause&quot; of global warming. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the White House said it supported &quot;rigorous scientific analysis and debate&quot; but added that the climate was &quot;always changing&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah said it was not certain how sensitive the Earth&#039;s climate was to greenhouse gas emissions. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-41867437\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Trump, who has embarked on a tour of Asia, once said the concept of global warming was created by the Chinese<\/a> in order to make American manufacturing  less competitive. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-40127326\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Earlier this year, he announced he was pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement to cut global emissions.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Apocalyptic predictions<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science2017.globalchange.gov\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Climate Science Special Report, which was approved by the White House, was compiled by US government scientists.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It argues that it is &quot;extremely likely&quot; that human activity is causing rapid global warming with dire consequences for the US and the world. <\/p>\n<p>The scientists&#039; predictions include:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A global sea level rise of up to 8ft (2.4 metres) cannot be ruled out by the end of the century<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Risks of drought and flooding will increase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There will be more frequent wildfires and devastating storms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Running to nearly 500 pages, the report concludes that the current period is &quot;now the warmest in the history of modern civilisation&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>It is &quot;extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause&quot;, it finds, adding that &quot;there is no convincing alternative explanation&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has made it easier for industry to pollute and he has appointed to key government positions men who are sceptical of their own scientists, the BBC&#039;s James Cook, in Los Angeles, says.<\/p>\n<p>Only on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/energy-secretary-the-science-is-out-on-how-much-humans-cause-climate-change-2505385312.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Trump&#039;s Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, told US media that while he thought climate change was real and humans had an &quot;impact on it&quot;, he still thought &quot;the science [was] out<\/a> on&quot; whether humans cause 100% of it.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say there was no political interference in, or censorship of, their report.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Let&#039;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-41868878\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has sought to downplay a major climate chang..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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