As America is battered by climate-intensified weather disasters, Republican politicians are trying to slash climate research funding.
The United States is great in many respects. But we certainly aren’t perfect; we’ve made some pretty silly choices. One of the dumb choices politicians in the United States want to make is to defund climate science so we wont be able to prepare for increased disasters in the future. We can see how shortsighted this in when compared alongside with the costs of disasters.
Full article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/dec/13/the-us-is-penny-wise-and-pound-foolish-on-the-climate