The Trump administration has pulled the plug on the federal program that has produced three decades of overly alarmist climate projections. Tuesday, “stop work” orders were issued to the contractors supporting the Global Change Research Program. This is a federal group established by Congress in 1990. It works under the direction of NASA and coordinates efforts among 14 federal agencies, the Smithsonian Institution, and hundreds of outside scientists to produce the National Climate Assessment.
The National Climate Assessment is a Congressionally mandated report produced every four years. It is not known for its accuracy,y but its prominence and the imprimatur it gets from being the US government’s official estimate of the number of unicorns climate change impacts ends up driving a lot of government and business decisions. The report requires us to suspend…
