Trump to put climate change denier in charge of key U.S. report
President Donald Trump’s administration is focused on promoting climate denial even as it counts down the president’s final days. The Trump team is preparing to appoint a climate denier to head development of the National Climate Assessment for the next two months, a key step that involves contracting scientists to write it, according to advisers close to the White House. Those contracts could be structured to keep researchers who reject climate science in place after President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January. On Friday, the administration quietly removed Michael Kuperberg from hi...
Source: sciencemag.org