Links tagged “NCA”
- Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: Outlier extreme climate scenario RCP8.5 ‘continues its preeminent role in climate research’
- NPR Training: ‘What journalists need to know when covering climate change’ – Urges journalists ‘to help the public understand what’s at stake’ – Calls National Climate Assessment ‘the gold standard’
- Biden transition team mulled bringing back John Holdren as science advisor & Katharine Hayhoe to National Climate Assessment
- NOAA chief scientist — ‘who questions the seriousness of global warming’ — moves to White House to oversee climate report
- Cheers! Trump administration chooses Climatologist Dr. David Legates — who questions ‘global warming’ — to run key climate program
Myron Ebell, a climate change skeptic at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who is close to the administration, called Legates “an excellent scientist” and said he’d make a successful executive director of the office that produces the assessment.
- White House plans to put ‘denier’ in charge of climate program
- Finally! Trump Admin is ‘listening to the science’ & seeks to rebut previous unscientific ‘extreme scenario’ National Climate Assessment
NYT: Marc Morano, a prominent denier of established climate change science, cheered the departure of Mr. Kuperberg and said he expects Mr. Legates to be named. “The Trump administration is ‘listening to the science’ by clearing out the anti-science promoters of extreme climate scenarios. These moves are long, long overdue,” he said.
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Myron Ebell, a director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a former member of Mr. Trump’s transition team. Mr. Ebell, whose organization has championed the appointment of Dr. [David] Legates and others who question the established science of climate change, said the intention is for him to lead the program while continuing to hold his position at NOAA. “It might be a short-term appointment,” Mr. Ebell said, given the election of President-elect Biden, who has said he will embrace aggressive efforts to tackle climate change. “If he only directs it for two months and a week, then he may not get very far, but let’s see what can get done in two months. Maybe the next administration will throw it all away, but maybe some changes will be adopted, who knows,” Mr. Ebell said.
- Disappointing: Trump admin picks warmist scientist to head new National Climate Assessment
Morano: "Sad, but not surprising to see Trump admin. fail once again to challenge National Climate Assessment. Kelvin Droegemeier strikes again. Poor pick for Trump."
- NY Times Disparages the Scientific Method While Attacking NOAA Scientists
- Rebuttal: Full takedown of mainstream media’s incorrect climate claims & media’s attack on NOAA scientist Dr. David Legates
