2004 called – they want their climate deniers back.
The Trump administration has hired three notable climate deniers to shadowy roles.
Among them, Steven Koonin, known among other things, for pushing a “Red Team vs Blue Team” debate to re-litigate the long settled science of climate change, both within the Government, and also at the American Physical Society.
Dr Ben Santer was a participant in the “Red/Blue” exercise at the APS, and related his experience to me in an interview, above.
The Energy Department has hired at least three scientists who are well-known for their rejection of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, according to records reviewed by The New York Times.
The scientists are listed in the Energy Department’s internal email system as current employees of the agency, the records show. They are Steven E. Koonin, a physicist and author of a best-selling book that calls climate science “unsettled”; John Christy, an atmospheric scientist who doubts the extent to which human activity has caused global warming; and Roy Spencer, a meteorologist who believes that clouds have had a greater influence on warming than humans have.
Their hiring comes after the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how climate change is affecting the country. The administration has also systematically removed mentions of climate change from government websites while slashing federal funding for research on global warming.
—
Video here describes the incompetency of John Christy and Roy Spencer.
