Thursday’s idiotic display of America’s fall from the world stage by unpopular President Trump used some “estimates” someone clearly thought would make it sound like our president reads things.
During a press conference in the White House Rose Garden Thursday, Trump cited research that suggested the emissions cuts agreed to under the deal would not reduce global temperatures fast enough to have a significant impact. “It is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree … Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100,” he said, adding: “Tiny, tiny amount.”
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Reuters noted that those numbers he was referring to came from a research project done out of MIT last April. The lead researcher of that study used his best calm voice to explain to Reuters that our president is a fucking imbecile.
"We certainly do not support the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris agreement," said Erwan Monier, a lead researcher at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and one of the study's authors.
"If we don't do anything, we might shoot over 5 degrees or more and that would be catastrophic," said John Reilly, the co-director of the program, adding that MIT's scientists had had no contact with the White House and were not offered a chance to explain their work.
Right now right-wing media outlets are readying their minions to go out and spin disinformation.