CNN’s Weir: Trump Admin’s Never Going to Win the Debate, the Science on Climate Change Is Incredibly Solid

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WEIR: “Some of the things they go after are their dismissal of sea level rise projections, which are actually conservative based on what‘s happening; the portrayal of carbon dioxide as plant food, over trillion tons of industrial pollution, excess carbon dioxide is just greening the planet, no big deal; the accuracy of climate modeling. But they say that a lot of their work was cherry-picked and misconstrued, misused deliberately to sort of stack the deck for big polluters like oil and gas companies. And the quote that really hits is Andrew Dessler out of Texas A&M, a really renowned climate scientist, says, 'This is a rerun of the tobacco battles. The goal here is not to win the debate. They‘re never going to win the debate. The science of climate change is incredibly solid. All they‘re trying to do is muddy the waters, create the idea that there is a debate, and the government will use that to roll back regulation.' That was Trump‘s promise to big oil companies: 'If you help me get elected, I‘ll get rid of all regulation.' And if you look at that tobacco analogy, it‘s interesting because the cancer rates in this country, lung cancer rates look like a horseshoe. From the time science said it was bad till the time the attorney generals won in court was decades of science denial and marketing that cost lives. They‘re saying the same thing is playing out now as this climate change graph does — that curve is not bending."