White House to select federal scientists to reassess government climate findings, sources say
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by Juliet Eilperin, Josh Dawsey and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post, Updated: February 24, 2019 - 3:00 PM
WASHINGTON - The White House plans to create an ad hoc group of select federal scientists to reassess the government's analysis of climate science and counter its conclusions that the continued burning of fossil fuels is harming the planet, according to three administration officials.
The National Security Council initiative would include scientists who question the severity of climate impacts and the extent to which humans contribute to the problem, according to these individuals, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The group would not be subject to the same level of public disclosure as a formal advisory committee.
The move would represent the Trump administration's most forceful effort to date to challenge the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are helping drive global warming and that the world could face dire consequences unless countries curb their carbon output over the next few decades.
The idea of a new working group, which top administration officials discussed Friday in the White House Situation Room, represents a modified version of an earlier plan to establish a federal advisory panel on climate and national security. That plan - championed by William Happer, NSC's senior director and a physicist who has challenged the idea that carbon dioxide could damage the planet - would have created an independent federal advisory committee.
The Federal Advisory Committee Act imposes several ground rules for such panels, including that they meet in public, are subject to public records requests and include a representative membership.
While the plan is not finalized, NSC officials said they would take steps to assemble a group of researchers within the government. The group will not be tasked with scrutinizing recent intelligence community assessments of climate change, according to officials familiar with the plan.
The National Security Council declined requests to comment on the matter.
During the Friday meeting, these officials said, deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman said Trump was upset that his administration had issued the National Climate Assessment, which must be published regularly under federal law. Kupperman added that congressional Democrats had seized upon the report, which is the product of more than a dozen agencies, to bolster their case for cutting carbon emissions as part of the Green New Deal.
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"security advisor Charles Kupperman said, "Trump was upset...…….." Nothing new here. The Trump 'slid through' the ( Stormy Thing ) so all is well. Next.
That's no w ay to talk about Jax wife
So, scientists with differing views will also be paid by the government. Watch out, that may lead to the truth.
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or don't want to
not wanting to, and the inability to see.,
doesn't mean
one wants to be blind
You just worry about your little wager. There are less than 2 years to go
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