climate

Trump’s infamous attacks on the term “climate”—tainted by its association with “climate change,” which he dismisses as a “hoax,” “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” by so-called “prophets of doom”—are part of a broader assault on climate knowledge and action. This includes efforts to purge language from federal agencies, attacks on scientific research, the cancellation of federal grants, authoritarian repression of dissent, and so on. Together, these measures have intensified the political and legal threats facing climate justice movements and their advocates.