Asked about the federal government’s bombshell report on climate change, Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended President’s Trump’s belief that it’s false. “I don’t believe it,” Trump announced. The White House press secretary also tried to delegitimize Friday’s damning report, insisting science is hard.
Tuesday afternoon at a rare press conference, Huckabee Sanders sneered when asked why the president is not leading on or preventing climate change, both nationally and around the world.
“The president is certainly leading on what matters most in this process, and that’s on having clean air, clean water – in fact the United States continues to be a leader on that front,” Huckabee Sanders claimed.
In January the EPA blocked an Obama-era rule to help ensure clean water. And on Tuesday The New York Times reported on “How Trump Is Ensuring That Greenhouse Gas Emissions Will Rise.”
“Even Obama’s undersecretary for science didn’t believe the radical conclusions of the report that was released,” she insisted. (NCRM has not been able to confirm this claim.)
“You have to look at the fact that this report is based on the most extreme modeled scenario, which contradicts long-established trends,” she continued. (NCRM has not been able to confirm this claim.)
“Modeling the climate is an extremely complicated science that is never exact,” Huckabee Sanders, who is not a scientist, claimed. She later again said modeling “is extremely hard to do.”
“The biggest thing that we can do is make sure that we have the cleanest air, the cleanest water, and the president is certainly doing that,” she said, falsely.
She also falsely insisted the climate report is “not based on facts,” and that it’s “not data-driven.”
The climate change report, officially the Fourth National Assessment of Climate Change, states climate change will lead to thousands of deaths and cost billions of dollars as it goes unchecked.
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Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell reports, “what makes this climate assessment particularly brilliant and subversive is that it comes from U.S. government scientists. The people who wrote the report are not tree-hugger activists or left-wing socialists. They are men and women who work at NOAA and USGS and the Army Corps. I have met many of these people. And they are about as radical as your uncle Fred. They are men and women who wear fleece jackets to work and live in modest homes and have devoted their lives to grinding out science at the agencies where they work.”