Trump Tells Federal Scientists to End Climate Report Work: CNN

The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a global climate report to stop their work, one of the scientists involved told CNN.

The US had been “highly involved” in planning for the next installment of the report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to CNN. It’s not clear what the withdrawal will mean for the project.

Kate Calvin, NASA’s chief scientist and senior climate adviser, was due to co-chair an international meeting of IPCC authors in China next week, but will no longer take part as a result of the stop-work order, CNN ...