It's interesting, the new President seems to be able to reverse himself on many issues after discussing them with bureaucrats/foreign policy/trade experts. I wonder who among his administration could convince him to change his mind here.
I'm still not convinced it's not an act. The guy would have to be unusually dense to govern with ignorance of both a priori and a posteriori knowledge. The greenhouse effect was discovered over 100 years ago, not placed on a napkin as a hunch in a bar 10 years ago.
Many of his base don't believe in global warming, or if they do that it's big problem, or that it's too costly to fix. Skip to about 6 minutes in of this TED talk to get an idea on how some people think about climate change:
Reminds me of one of Peter Norvig's "Plot Synopses for Episodes of a Gilligan’s Island Remake Starring Members of the Bush Administration" for McSweeney's Internet Tendency
"The professor’s experiments conclusively show that climate change is causing the island to sink into the sea. Gilligan erases his papers and tries to stop him from talking, thinking that will make the problem go away."
This should be retitled to "EPA shifts priority and retains only an archive of climate change information" (linked on that page to https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climatechange_.html). Yes, President Trump does not care about climate change--we all know that. But we should be saving our outrage and upvotes for situations where it is actually warranted.
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"The professor’s experiments conclusively show that climate change is causing the island to sink into the sea. Gilligan erases his papers and tries to stop him from talking, thinking that will make the problem go away."
http://i.imgur.com/a7lHIaV.gif
In a few years republicans will be complaining that democrats are manipulating the data.