Former officials urge Trump to stop undermining climate science
Nearly 60 former leaders in the military and national security community sent a letter today urging President Trump not to subject the government’s own authoritative climate reports to an apparently partisan review, The Washington Post reports.
The letter references the Post’s recent report that the National Security Council may establish a panel of federal scientists to “reassess the government’s analysis of climate science and counter conclusions that the continued burning of fossil fuels is harming the planet.” If this panel is created, it would represent the White House’s latest effort to sow doubt about the scientific consensus around climate change. Scientific research has repeatedly shown that climate change is driven by fossil…
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