Trump's War on Science

Will Trump Lose The War On Science?

Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2013

Ever since the announcement of the new President of the United States, I knew science would be under threat. After all, we live in a society where the most powerful office in the world uses the term "alternative facts" as opposed to addressing idiotic behaviour. I didn't realise how fast science would be under threat in terms of global warming. For those of you who somehow don't know; a few days after becoming POTUS Donald Trump removed any mention of climate change from the white house website and correspondence and tried to do the same to the Environmental Protection Agency. Furthermore, EPA was forced to freeze grants and cease on contracts issued to study environmental problems. Sadly, many people lost their PhD’s, jobs, research and livelihoods to this ridiculous act. They went even further with this and said any studies to come out of the EPA would have to be cleared by white house officials before being released to the public. The Department of Agriculture also got similar screening treatment with their press releases. Effectively censoring scientific information. This insufferable man has officially gone to war with science – he is trying to deny and silence well established science – simply because he cannot change it and this is why he will lose.

"It's a Scam and a Hoax"

I've personally been told this, when asked I never got a response. I suppose I know why, because it is an easy outlet when you don't understand anything, just say the first thing that pops into your head and have no defence when questioned about it. Let me tell you who's scamming you. No one. Every major science organisation, including independent research scholars have all scamming us? Scientists have run independent tests and manipulated the data to come to the same conclusions? That's pretty strange, almost statistically impossible, to be quite frank. But you give an overhwelming argument and you have converted me. Oh wait, no. No you haven't. You lack two fundamental things for this pseudoscientific bullshit; evidence and critical reasoning.

Here is the current climate model released by NAS (National Academy of Sciences) you can disagree with it all you want, but you're wrong- as it is evident there is a clear overall trend as years progress. This is pooled data from independent researchers, peer reviewed, critically scientifically analysed and published for scientific scrutiny - of which it has received little scrutiny from actual scientists. Again, there's a completely overwhelming amount of data on the NASA website from global mapping temperatures. Also you can view all the raw data and graphs here.

I could literally be here all day listing papers, cohorts, reviews and data sets I guess my point is that the Trump administration know dick about science or scientific processes to come to the conclusion that you are being 'scammed' without presenting any valid evidence (because there isn't any). Climate change is real, the fact they choose not to believe that in the face of overwhelming evidence makes them a conspiracy theorist. I and if you are reading this and you believe in Donald Trump and what he "stands for" in this regard, I sincerely doubt you will click any of those links to actually look at the data because it completely disagrees with your preconceived view that all scientists/media/liberals are [insert whatever you like here] must be lying to "scam" you. 

You can literally see in the above graph the actual figures here - if you cannot get that the temperatures are rapidly rising from that then you are an abolute moron.

2016 hottest year

Officially, 2016 has been the hottest year on record since the tracking of global temperatures in 1880, meaning that for the third year, the global temperatures have continued to rise to be the highest on record. It is dumbfoundly, crucially undeniable that the earth is getting hotter and hotter. Scientists work extremely hard to calculate all this data, it’s not as though there is just a thermometer plugged into the ground and hey presto, we have another degree Celsius on the scale. No, it is much, much more complicated than that and with that complication comes a lot of peer review and data assessment – independently. This means that the data is independently, rigorously tested by different scientists, in different locations – not just sat in the same office looking at the same numbers whilst rubbing their hands together and thinking how much money they can make from fearmongering. You, like Mr Trump, could deny the fact that the data is accurately obtained and calculated, you would be wrong, but you could. Then there comes the question of why? Is it man made? The world’s scientific consensus is that the upward trend in the temperature is due to the man-made release of CO2 gas. You can then, as trump does, point to the few ‘scientists’ who disagree with this view.

Any other areas where fingers have been pointed have been debunked by scientific studies. You could just wave your hands around and say things like ‘Climate change is a hoax from china’ and dismiss all the actual evidence – and researchers are just perpetrating this to get funding, because all that funding goes in their pocket *eye roll*. There are a myriad of environmental scientists, the plausibility of them all being bought off is beyond ridiculous. Think about it. Really, think.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

 Dickhead.

What’s Next?

In the face of everything covered by Trumps administration in the last week it is clear that science is under threat. But is trump picking a fight he will lose? Science doesn’t care. It doesn’t read, it doesn’t give a damn about what you think or what you do. Sea levels will continue to rise, vaccines will continue to work and he will continue to be a complete dickhead. The science is correct, whether it is censored or not – having the scientifically illiterate censor the media that comes out of the EPA and climate change research just holds back the progression of mankind – which is pretty much a fitting tribute to this whole trump presidency. Scientists are fighting back and winning and I can only hope that our own prime minister and other officials will stand up against this absolute ridiculous man’s ideology. That however remains to be seen with any of the disgusting acts he has carried out during his campaign and his actual presidency. Vaccines will be under attack by this uneducated moron soon enough.

President Trump can just get in the fucking bin.