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“The president is celebrating Earth Day… too. In an impressive example of multi-tasking, he is curtailing federal climate science, defunding programs to help America track its weather, rescinding federal clean energy grants, and banning over 250 unacceptable words from federal literature and websites. They include clean energy, climate crisis, climate science, pollution, science-based, social justice and vulnerable populations.”
- William Becker, Presidential Climate Action Project |
As the only meteorologist in Congress, I feel a responsibility to call out climate misinformation when I see it.
Too often, we’re still framing the climate change “debate” around things like the dwindling polar bear population or dire warnings of a global catastrophe in 2050. While both are very real outcomes, we’re making these cuts while the climate crisis is impacting our day-to-day lives right now.
For instance, with our local farmers, even tiny temperature swings can have a major, devastating impact on crop yields. Cutting our ability to track weather, or research how to handle these oncoming challenges, is directly hurting our local economies.
Now more than ever we must fight back against this anti-science movement. We have to reaffirm our commitment to science, to truth, and to safety. And it starts with a Congress that acknowledges the increase in extreme weather around us.
The ‘here and now’ can't be denied, and we need to secure a majority of leaders serious about this issue if we’re going to undercut climate deniers.
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Happy Earth Day, friend.
-Eric
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