Trump Administration Taps Climate Science Critic to Oversee National Climate Assessment

Matthew M. Wielicki has criticized the scientific consensus on global warming as alarmist. Now he’ll oversee a major federal report on the topic.A scorched road in Hawaii in 2023 after devastating wildfires. The last climate assessment, published that year, found that human-caused global warming was supercharging wildfires in the West, droughts in the Great Plains and heat waves across the country.