Stabbing America In the Back

WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP took office, he ordered that the term "climate change' be removed from all federal government websites. Trump, a true climate change denier conservative, really doesn't care one way or another about climate change as an issue. he would be just a happy to be the world's leading crusader for fighting the problem. Trump only wants what most children want: attention. Tragically, he cast his lot with the dark side, the dark side of climate change denial, an attitude which threatens our very existence. Every four years the government issues a comprehensive report on climate change, its progress, its probable future course, based on the latest, most comprehensive research. This program was instigated by president Bush in 2001. The latest report came out this past week, and is alarmingly dire. Trump, evidently, arranged for the report to be released over the Thanksgiving weekend, hoping it would be buried beneath the holiday festivities, and would attract less attention, thus providing less demonstrable repudiation of his insane climate change policy of denial. When it became obvious that his clever little tactic had backfired - the public seems to be paying attention - the president simply shrugged off the comprehensive study as unfounded, unproven, unreliable. This is hardly surprising, however, coming from a person who cannot distinguish the difference between "weather" and "climate", an ignorance which, tragically, is apparently shared by most climate change deniers. And how often have we heard climate change deniers brilliantly pose the question, n the midst of a period of cold weather: "so where's this climate change now"? the fools would be humorous were thy not in such deadly earnest, as H. L. Mencken said. It is unspeakably tragic that Trump got elected for many obvious reasons, but the greatest of them is that by refusing to take action against the looming disaster to human existence, a disaster which is already being seen and experienced by millions, Trump is in fact stabbing his own country in the back. We are left to fantasize about some high school chemistry teacher, any of the tens of thousands in this country will do, explaining basic chemistry to the president. It'll never happen, and even if it did, Trump would ignore the explanation. it is not unreasonable, inaccurate, or unfair to characterize Trump's behavior, and for that matter the behavior of all climate change deniers, as unpatriotic, traitorous, treasonous. Any other description of this behavior would be dishonest.