Page 22 - Change Research Program News Today

White House reinstates climate adviser removed by Trump Morgan Chalfant © The Hill White House reinstates climate adviser removed by Trump The White House has reinstated a top adviser overseeing the governments reports on climate change after the official was removed from the position under former President Trump last year. Officials announced on Wednesday that Michael Kuperberg had returned to the position of executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, six...

Michael Kuperberg has returned as the executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

ADVERTISEMENT Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) on Wednesday chastised oil company executives who declined her invitation to testify before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, saying they “declined to answer to the American people.” Porter, who chairs the subcommittee, invited the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Devon Energy and EOG Resources to testify at a hearing, which was titled, “Misuse of Taxpayer Dollars and Corporate Welfare in the Oil and Gas Industry.” Al...

Bjorn Lomborg, president of Copenhagen Consensus, argues the left is using fear to push costly, radical climate policies. The White House has brought back the scientist responsible for overseeing the government’s climate reports after he was ousted by the Trump administration last year.  The Biden administration announced Dr. Michael Kuperberg had returned to the position of executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, six months after he’d been reassigned from that post ...

feed to stay on top of the news. The Washington Post reports climate scientist Michael Kuperberg was reinstated as executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program Monday. Kuperberg was removed from the role after the presidential election and reassigned to the Department of Energy.  As head of the program, Kuperberg will oversee the production of the National Climate Assessment. The report is considered the federal government’s “state of the Union” on climate change and is...

Climate changes threaten the U.S. transportation system, according to the National Climate Assessment. Flooding, temperature changes, etc. will have...

EPA Researchers Are Providing Tools And Resources To Prepare Communities For Climate Change And Extreme Storms By U.S. EPA Each season brings expected changes to the weather. But with climate change and the warming of the atmosphere, weather patterns are becoming less predictable with more heat waves, and increased severity of super- and local- storms.  EPA scientists are investigating the increased occurrence and intensity of extreme precipitation events, which are defined as days with precip...

A New Book Feeds Climate Doubters, but Scientists Say the Conclusions are Misleading and Out of Date Steven Koonin, who during Trump’s presidency proposed having a “red team, blue team” climate debate, argues that climate action’s “certain downsides” outweigh the “uncertain” benefits. May 4, 2021 Steven Koonin, then-under secretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy, speaks at the 2011 CERAWEEK conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Friday, March 11, 2011. Credit: Aaro...

Sukham Blog – A monthly column focused on South Asian health and wellbeing. When I see or hear the words Climate Change, I conjure up mental images of global warming, rising temperatures, melting ice caps, rising ocean levels, increasing CO2 and methane emissions, more frequent extreme weather events such as flooding, drought, and wildfires, and our planet Earth rapidly becoming less habitable for present and future generations.  My mind does not turn immediately to the ongoing impact on h...

Why is this physicist challenging climate science? Amy Joi ODonoghue © Steve Griffin, Deseret News Bill Pekny uses a monitor to check carbon dioxide levels outside of his home in Midway on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Pekny is a local author and scientist and agrees the climate is warming, but he says that we are in a normal cycle of warming and panic is unwarranted. Utah author Bill Pekny wrote a book with 13 chapters describing climate change, full of charts, colorful graphics an...