Obama official helped prepare dire National Climate Assessment washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/… via @washtimes
A former Obama administration official with ties to a liberal advocacy group funded by Democratic megadonors @GeorgeSoros and @TomSteyer helped prepare the Fourth National Climate Assessment, whose dire predictions have since been attacked as overblown.
.@AndrwLight, who worked on the 2015 Paris accord negotiations as a senior adviser to the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change under @JohnKerry, served as a review editor for the assessment...
Light oversaw the pivotal final chapter which concluded under a worst-case scenario that global warming could wipe out as much as 10 percent of the U.S. economy by 2100.
Now a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, Mr. Light also spent five years as senior fellow and director of international climate policy at the @amprog, which was founded and now led by longtime Democratic insider @JohnPodesta. @neeratanden
The involvement of Mr. Light and other figures known for their climate change advocacy has raised questions about the credibility of the report, which has been widely depicted as a politically neutral, scientific document prepared by disinterested specialists from 13 fed agencies
Roger A. Pielke Jr., University of Colorado Boulder environmental studies professor, criticized the decision to bring in Mr. Light, as well as the report’s reliance for the 10 percent figure on a 2017 study funded in part by Steyer’s Next Generation and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
“The question remains, whose idea was it to have John Podesta’s climate adviser and Obama political appointee be in charge of the review of the most important chapter, which leans heavily on Tom Steyer research?” Mr. Pielke said in an email.
Mr. Light has no formal academic scientific credentials — he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy — but noted that he completed a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship in environmental risk assessment.
