trump administration removes head of Federal climate program that oversees key reports.
Climate scientist leading U.S. Global Change Research Program is reassigned.
The White House removed the official in charge of the federal program that produces the government’s definitive reports on climate change Friday evening, according to three sources familiar with the situation.
The official, Michael Kuperberg, a climate scientist who had been executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) since July 2015, was sent back to his previous position as a scientist at the Department of Energy. He had been expected to stay on through the production of the fifth edition of the congressionally-mandated National Climate Assessment.
The climate assessment examines the present-day harms that climate change is having on the U.S. and makes projections about future damage down to the local level from greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.'>>>
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