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© 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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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 officials who posted a series of debunked scientific reports denying the existence and significance 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 papers were not created at the direction of The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy...