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David Legates and Ryan Maue were dismissed from White House positions due to unauthorized involvement in producing papers bearing presidential seal that question climate science findings.
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 government record. David Legates, who serves in a senior role at NOAA and is heading the U.S. Global Change...
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 papers were not created at the direction of The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy...
© 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-change skeptic research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said on his website tha...
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