What's Trump hiding in the climate report? That global warming's effects are here | Ken Kimmell and Brenda Ekwurzel

The administration tried to bury the assessment, but as residents flee wildfires and wade through flooded streets, let's hope decision-makers get the messageTalk about cognitive dissonance. Just two days before 13 federal agencies released a report laying out the devastating human and economic toll that climate change already is taking in the United States, Donald Trump tweeted: "Whatever happened to global warming?" The tweet was based on a spurt of cold weather in the north-east, never mind that the rest of the world was experiencing higher than normal temperatures.The administration was so concerned about what the report, called the National Climate Assessment (NCA), would reveal - including the fact that the president's thinking on climate change is hopelessly flawed - that it chose to release it on Black Friday, hoping no one would pay attention. A member of Trump's transition team, Steven Milloy, was candid about this strategy, saying: "Do it on a day when nobody cares, and hope it gets swept away by the next day's news." Fortunately for the Earth and its residents, news coverage about the report continued over the weekend and into the following week. Continue reading...