Trump Taps Global Warming Critic To Reopen Nation’s Climate Change Office: ‘professor In Exile’

The Trump administration has tapped a ambiance subject professional — who describes himself arsenic a “professor successful exile” — to lead nan nation’s climate change office, according to a caller report.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program, which efficaciously hollowed retired during President Donald Trump’s first twelvemonth successful office, will now beryllium led by Matthew Wielicki, a erstwhile University of Alabama geochemist, Politico reported Thursday.

In comments connected X, Wielicki wrote that “the subject is not settled connected ambiance change” and based on that those who judge successful a ambiance emergency are “being sold snake oil.”

When reached by The Independent, a White House spokesperson said: “The Trump Administration is committed to utilizing nan champion technological accusation to pass nationalist policy. For excessively long, nan USGCRP has been utilized arsenic a conveyance for governmental agendas alternatively of sound science. We look guardant to restoring nan USGCRP and ensuring it fulfills its ineligible mandate.”

A Polish migrant who often appears successful blimpish media, Wielicki said he departed higher acquisition owed to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. He’s suggested that ambiance scientists are fudging information to make nan world look warmer, Politico reports.

In 2024, he wrote that while “climate alteration is not a hoax,” he said, “you should return immoderate catastrophic ambiance prediction pinch a atom of brackish and disregard nan [mainstream media] erstwhile it comes to ambiance change.” The aforesaid year, he posted: “In ambiance science, don't property to humans what tin beryllium attributed to earthy variability.”

Multiple studies person recovered that nan immense mostly of scientists work together that humans are responsible for ambiance change, according to nan United Nations, which precocious warned that nan Earth is likely to shatter somesthesia records successful nan years ahead.

The past 11 years person been the 11 warmest connected record, according to nan World Meteorological Organization.

USGCRP oversees nan National Climate Assessment, nan congressionally mandated quadrennial study that examines really ambiance alteration is affecting nan U.S.

Previous editions, relying connected peer-reviewed research, person warned astir rising temperatures and expanding earthy disasters. The study is utilized to thief power spending, planning, and consequence mitigation, according to Politico.

It remains chartless really nan Trump management will usage nan reopened office, though nan president has agelong railed against what he casts arsenic ambiance alarmism.

“For acold excessively agelong Climate Activism has been utilized by Dumocrats to scare Americans, push horrible Energy Polices, and money BILLIONS into their bogus investigation programs,” nan Republican president wrote connected Truth Social successful May. “My Administration will ever beryllium based connected TRUTH, SCIENCE, and FACT!”

The management has taken purpose astatine a number of ambiance initiatives, including withdrawing nan U.S. from nan Paris Agreement and rescinding an Obama-era EPA rule that opened nan doorway to regulating greenhouse state emissions.