Evidence showing that climate change harms public health is “beyond scientific dispute” and does not support a Trump administration effort to revoke a landmark 2009 U.S. government finding saying so, the National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday.
The group, an independent nonprofit set up more than a century ago to advise the government on matters of science, said human activity is releasing greenhouse gases that are warming the planet, increasing extreme temperatures and changing the oceans, all dangerous developments for the health and welfare of the United States public. Evidence to that effect has only grown stronger since 2009, the group said.
In July, the Trump administration proposed revoking what’s known as the “endangerment” finding, the concept that climate change is a threat. The finding underpins many environmental regulations adopted in the U.S. and overturning it could pave the way for cutting a range of rules that limit pollution from cars, power plants and other sources.
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