Trump admin gives voices to scholars once silenced on climate change, COVID

Trump admin gives voices to scholars once silenced on climate change, COVID

Republican leader’s elevation of unorthodox scientists brings hope for future of academic freedom President Donald Trump’s administration has taken a lot of heat for cutting university grants for scientific research. But less noticed has been the ways his administration is actually opening the doors to more unorthodox scholarship — and academic freedom. Scholars whose views do not… Source

New Climate Report Deserves to Be Debated, Not Silenced – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

A new report from the Department of Energy concludes that, yes, the climate is changing and humans contribute to it — but no, it’s not necessarily the impending catastrophe we’ve been warned about. In another era, an agency charting this kind of middle course would be unremarkable. Today, it feels revolutionary. The debate over climate change and responses has become so polarized that acknowledging the problem of human-driven warming without acc…