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@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell The next National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s most definitive and comprehensive report on climate change and its consequences for the United States, will be directed by atmospheric scientist Betsy Weatherhead.

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell WaPo: Weatherhead "accepts human-induced climate change is happening and is a serious physical, ecological and economic threat."

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell Here's the problem: "Picked by Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and a Trump appointee, Weatherhead is to be formally brought into the government as part of the career civil service..."

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell Sad, but not surprising to see Trump admin. fail once again to challenge National Climate Assessment. Kelvin Droegemeier strikes again. Poor pick for Trump.

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell Droegemeier has proven to be a wasted pick for Trump. He is a science bureaucrat best known for dodging any opportunity to go on record with his views on climate. He clearly does not want to be associated with any Admin. that would dare challenge so-called climate ‘consensus.’

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell Flashback 2019: climatedepot.com/2019/07/10/tru…

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell I guess it does not matter much now. Trump admin lost a historic opportunity to challenge the scientific claims made by National Climate Assessment, IPCC, etc. And all of Trump's overturning of Obama's climate policies will be reversed in the coming year. climatedepot.com/2019/07/10/tru…

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell What an additional punch in the eye by Trump admin to climate skeptics & science to pick a "mainstream" scientists (as WaPO describes Weatherhead) to lead National Climate Assessment.

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell Here is past National Climate Assessment that Trump admin allowed. A disgrace. Fed climate con job: Obama’s UN Paris negotiator & green activists helped prepare dire federal climate report climatedepot.com/2018/11/29/upd…

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell Scientists rip new federal climate report as ‘tripe’ – ’embarrassing’ – ‘systematically flawed’ – Key claim based on study funded by Steyer & Bloomberg climatedepot.com/2018/11/25/sci…

@ClimateOfGavin @alicebell ‘Ridiculous Climate Prophecy’: How the UN & National Climate Assessment used ‘fairy tail’ extreme climate models to scare the public
climatedepot.com/2020/06/29/rid…

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