US Climate Scientists 'Scream'... 'Trump' Becomes Reality [Climate Crisis Now]
The so-called 'Trumpsk (Trump + Musk + Risk)' is spreading across the United States. It is pointed out that US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, head of the US Department of Government Efficiency, are becoming symbols of scientific risk in the United States.
It is a diagnosis that the US scientific community is exposed to 'Trump Risk' due to excessive antipathy toward science. There are reports that US President Donald Trump is openly sensitive to 'climate'.
The US scientific community is falling into chaos.
The British media outlet The Guardian reported on the 21st (local time), "As Trump is withdrawing support for research that mentions climate, voices of criticism are growing in the academic community," and "The US government is withdrawing funding for domestic and international research amid warnings about health and public safety."
The Trump administration has been found to be withdrawing support for scientific research in the United States and abroad that includes the word "climate," and is also removing the keyword "climate change" from government websites.
As soon as Trump took office, he launched a fierce attack on environmental regulations and clean energy development. Scholars are furious that the U.S. government is withdrawing grants and other support for research that mentions the climate crisis.
U.S. President Donald Trump. [Photo = Yonhap News]
Trump has previously stated that "climate change is a 'giant fraud.'" In addition, Trump is removing references to climate change and global warming from government websites. The federal government is moving to freeze funding for climate-related scientific research.
The Guardian summed it up as "the U.S. scientific community is in disarray."
With the entire U.S. scientific community in shock and confusion, climate scientists in particular are being targeted. Research that mentions climate is being targeted.
An environmental scientist working in the western United States confessed that he was notified that if he did not remove the word "climate" from a related research project, his grant would be withdrawn. He said, "I was told that I had to change the grant title before it was posted on the U.S. agency website in order to keep the grant."
He said, "(This reality) is shocking and I am very concerned about science being influenced politically, and if researchers can't use certain words, there is a high possibility that some science will be biased," and criticized the Trump administration's "anti-science" stance.
He also personally witnessed the removal of references to "climate." The National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii's Department of Education revised its course materials to include references to "climate change." "References to 'climate change' and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) have been removed or revised to match new priorities," the center's administrator explained.
The Trump administration's hostility toward climate research is reportedly spreading overseas through the U.S. Fulbright exchange program.
Jennifer Jones of the Union of Concerned Scientists said of the recent situation, "The most vulnerable in our society, both in terms of health and public safety, will now be at greater risk," and criticized that "the Trump administration has no plan to advance science, but only policies to remove obstacles to the oil and gas industry."
It is known that many scientists feel threatened by the inauguration of the Trump administration and its "anti-science policies." Jones diagnosed that "We saw this in the first Trump administration, and in the second Trump administration, it is being implemented on an unprecedented scale."
Joanne Carney of the American Association for the Advancement of Science added that "the (Trump administration's) attacks on science could deter young scientists from entering the field of research," and "Young students may now think that STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is a dying field in the United States, and this perception will be a major obstacle to scientific advancement."
Climate change research is based on scientific data accumulated over decades by related organizations including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Attention is being paid to how the American scientific community will respond to the Trump administration, which is ignoring and hostilely turning these achievements into something more than just a mere slap in the face.
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