This is incredibly reckless and irresponsible: so-called "president" Dumbeldorf Pumpernickel and his band of merry appointees are preparing a new assault on the environmental policies of his predecessors.  They have already spent years rolling back Obama-era environmental regulations, pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushing aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, turning the phrase “global warming” into a punch line rather than a prognosis, and generally doing just about  everything they could to try and unravel America's protections against pollution and its health risks.

But just last November, the National Climate Assessment projected that the atmosphere could warm as much as eight degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century if fossil fuel emissions continue unchecked, leading to higher sea levels, more devastating storms and droughts, and severe health consequences. However, since the release of the assessment report, the administration has pushed to alter the results of other government science reports. 

Specifically, the EPA has said that the worst-case projections won’t be included in some government reports, including the next National Climate Assessment, which is scheduled to be released in 2021 or 2022.   A spokesman said,  “The previous use of inaccurate modeling that focuses on worst-case emissions scenarios, that does not reflect real-world conditions, needs to be thoroughly re-examined and tested if such information is going to serve as the scientific foundation of nationwide decision-making now and in the future.” 

The administration wants to create a new climate review panel, led by a 79-year-old Princeton physicist, William Happer, who has attacked the science of man-made climate change and defended the virtues of carbon dioxide, sometimes to an awkward degree.  “The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler,” he told CNBC in a 2014 interview.

Worse, in the next few months, the White House will expand its efforts to impose its hard-line views on other nations. Building on its retreat from the Paris accord, it recently refused to sign a communiqué to protect the rapidly melting Arctic region unless it was stripped of any references to climate change. 

Future generations will be ashamed of these actions, which compromise the health and safety of the very planet just to increase the short-term wealth of a select few.