White House Puts Reality Back Into Climate Policy
For years, Washington’s climate bureaucracy treated worst-case climate scenarios as destiny and used them to justify costly regulations and questionable spending. The Trump administration is putting an end to it.
The Daily Wire reports that the White House is retiring the Biden-era Fifth National Climate Assessment and directing federal agencies not to use implausible worst-case climate projections as the baseline for regulations, funding, or infrastructure decisions. Agencies relying on such projections will also have to disclose that they came from extreme scenarios.
Dr. Matthew Wielicki, director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, told The Daily Wire that many of these high-emissions scenarios were originally intended as climate-model “stress tests” before eventually being treated as expected outcomes by policymakers.
American taxpayers and energy consumers have spent years paying for policies built around predictions even the climate establishment now acknowledges are unrealistic.
Instead of allowing activists to turn worst-case computer models into government policy, the Trump administration is demanding something radical in Washington: make decisions based on the real world.
That means reliable infrastructure, affordable energy, and taxpayer dollars should be guided by plausible conditions, not the climate left’s preferred nightmare scenario.
It’s another welcome step toward dismantling the climate alarmism that distorted American energy policy for far too long.
August 25, 2026