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At the National Security Council, under Bolton, officials said they were instructed to strip references to global warming from speeches & formal statements. But such political edicts pale in significance to the changes in the methodology of scientific reports. They’ve started talking about how they can produce a report that doesn’t lead to some silly alarmist predictions about the future. " The Trump administration  officials say the reports are  “largely based on the most extreme scenario."  Scientists said that eliminating the worst-case scenario would give a falsely optimistic picture by eliminating the projected effects of increased carbon dioxide pollution after 2040, the GSreports would present an incomplete and falsely optimistic picture of the impact of continuing to burn unlimited amounts of coal, oil and gasoline. “Nobody in the world does climate science like that!”

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