Trump’s Climate Modeling Reform Scorches His Critics

Trump’s Climate Modeling Reform Scorches His Critics
Students participate in a global walkout for Climate Change in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on March 15, 2019. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
Merrill Matthews
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Climate models’ projections are notoriously inaccurate and often contradictory. In an effort to improve the science used by regulatory agencies, the Trump administration has made, and is still making, adjustments in the way the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies approach climate change and make the predictions that drive climate policies.

Merrill Matthews
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Resident Scholar, Institute for Policy Innovation; Ph.D. Univ. of Texas, Dallas; contributor to several publications, 7th black in Taekwondo.
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