Administration just disbanded advisory committee on climate change
By Juliet Eilperin
August 20 at 7:00 AM
... The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment which includes academics as well as local officials and corporate representatives expires Sunday. On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations acting administrator, Ben Friedman, informed the committees chair that the agency would not renew the panel.
The National Climate Assessment is supposed to be issued every four years but has come out only three times since passage of the 1990 law calling for such analysis. The next one, due for release in 2018, already has become a contentious issue for the Trump administration ...
"It doesnt seem to be the best course of action," said Moss, an adjunct professor in the University of Marylands Department of Geographical Sciences, and he warned of consequences for the decisions that state and local authorities must make on a range of issues from building road projects to maintaining adequate hydropower supplies. "Were going to be running huge risks here and possibly end up hurting the next generations economic prospects" ...
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