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The Capitol Riot and Climate Disinformation They’re more closely related than you might think Jan. 13, 2021 sharp decline in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and a 2020 temperature record. How the riot ties in with climate disinformation By John Schwartz Last week, a mob incited by President Trump stormed the United States Capitol building. Rioters broke windows, beat law enforcement officers, vandalized offices and tried to track down members of Congress with mayhem in mind. At least five peop...

Published on January 13th, 2021 In the wake of Trump’s deadly white supremacist insurrection last week, it seems that the revolving door between the energy industry and the Trump government may finally be closing. Ben Lefebvre and Zack Colman  reported yesterday for PoliticoPRO that even oil and gas companies are now cutting ties with members of the Trump administration, with one (anonymous) executive telling them that they “have discussed this explicitly… we’re not going ...

President Donald Trump has been sympathetic with the climate skeptics’ position, which is that there is no climate crisis, and that all currently proposed solutions to the “crisis” are economically harmful to the U.S. specifically, and to humanity in general. Today I have learned that Dr. David Legates, who had been brought to the Office of Science and Technology Policy to represent the skeptical position in the Trump Administration, has been fired by OSTP Director and Trump Science Advis...

Published: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 David Legates. Photo credit: The Heartland Institute/Youtube David Legates, a political appointee at NOAA, attends a Heartland Institute conference in 2019. Legates is promoting researchers who reject climate science. Heartland Institute/YouTube A climate denier working under the purview of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is attempting to publish cherry-picked and inaccurate research so that it can be permanently archived as a governm...

Controversial papers questioning the seriousness of climate change led by David Legates, a senior official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration appointed by President Trump, have been published online without White House approval. The papers, which were published on nongovernment websites, bear the imprint of the Executive Office of the President and state they were copyrighted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). But they were disavowed. “These...

© DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images A Trump administration apparently led a group of researchers in writing papers casting doubt on the scientific evidence for climate change.  David Legates, an administration official with a history of questioning humans’ influence on global warming, appears to have written an introduction to a series of papers aimed at casting doubt on the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and caused by human activity.  Roy Spencer, a climate-c...

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A Late Burst of Climate Denial Extends the Era of Trump Disinformation Two Trump administration officials have been reassigned over the posting of debunked papers, with the imprimatur of the White House, that questioned the scientific consensus on climate change. David Legates, a climate denialist who joined the Trump administration last year, at a Senate hearing in 2014, Credit...C-SPAN.org Jan. 12, 2021 WASHINGTON — The White House science office on Tuesday reassigned two administration o...

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Controversial papers questioning the seriousness of climate change led by David Legates, a senior official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration appointed by President Trump, have been published online without White House approval. The papers, which were published on nongovernment websites, bear the imprint of the Executive Office of the President and state they were copyrighted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). But they were disavowed. “These...