White House to select federal scientists to reassess government climate findings, sources say
Source: Bangor Daily News
WASHINGTON — The White House plans to create an ad hoc group of select federal scientists to reassess the government’s analysis of climate science and counter its conclusions that the continued burning of fossil fuels is harming the planet, according to three administration officials.
The National Security Council initiative would include scientists who question the severity of climate impacts and the extent to which humans contribute to the problem, according to these individuals, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The group would not be subject to the same level of public disclosure as a formal advisory committee.
The move would represent the Trump administration’s most forceful effort to date to challenge the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are helping drive global warming and that the world could face dire consequences unless countries curb their carbon output over the next few decades.
The idea of a new working group, which top administration officials discussed Friday in the White House Situation Room, represents a modified version of an earlier plan to establish a federal advisory panel on climate and national security. That plan — championed by William Happer, NSC’s senior director and a physicist who has challenged the idea that carbon dioxide could damage the planet — would have created an independent federal advisory committee.
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I hope the asshole chokes on his cheeseburger. 
Grotesque incompetence, shocking irresponsibility, clear prioritizing of personal profit over the welfare of the country. Time is of the essence if we are to have any hope of addressing climate change. The thought of the time wasted by this incompetent, willfully ignorant crew is just more than I can stand. 
History will not be kind to this man and his followers - that is, if any humans survive this era even to write a history of this debacle.
